Carbon Management

Fuel and Lubricant Solutions

We focus on climate protection with carbon management.

At BASF, we are aware of our responsibility for climate protection as well as the challenges our customers have to face regarding the changes that come with it. Therefore, our goal is to enable our customers to lower CO₂ emissions.

Back to Sustainability

Our Carbon Management is built on three pillars:

Increase process and energy efﬁciency, reduce nitrous oxide emissions

Develop breakthrough technologies for low-emission production

Increase the share of renewable energies in power supply

BASF is setting itself even more ambitious goals on its journey to climate neutrality and wants to achieve net zero emissions by 2050. At the heart of the long-term transition toward net zero CO₂ emissions by 2050 is the use of new technologies, which will replace fossil fuels such as natural gas with electricity from renewable sources. Most of these technologies are being pioneered by BASF in collaboration with partners and are currently in a pilot stage.

BASF's Climate Goal

“The new climate goals underscore our determina-tion and BASF’s commitment to the Paris Climate Agreement. Climate change is the greatest challenge of the 21st century. In response, we must adapt our pro-cesses and our product portfolio. We need to accelerate this transformation now. We must ﬁrst concentrate on the initial steps of this journey, not the ﬁnal ones. That is why BASF will increase its use of renewable energies. And we will accelerate the development and deployment of new CO₂-free processes for the production of chemicals. With transparency and offerings to systematically and incrementally reduce the carbon footprint of BASF products throughout the entire value chain, we help our customers in all industries to reduce the carbon footprint of their own products.”

Dr. Martin Brudermüller

Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors of BASF SE (March 26, 2021)