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Some two billion cars are expected to be on roads worldwide by 2040

Combustion engines still represent the currently predominant powertrain technology and will continue to do so for several years. With poor quality fuel, deposits can slowly build up inside every combustion engine, resulting in inefficient use of resources, unnecessary emissions and suboptimal performance.

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KEROPUR^® for Sustainable Transportation in the Long Run

Some two billion cars are expected be on roads worldwide by 2040
Combustion engines still represent the currently predominant powertrain technology based on fossil-based fuel
With poor quality fuel, deposits can slowly build up inside every engine, resulting in suboptimal performance, inefficient use of resources and unnecessary emissions
KEROPUR^® fuel perfomance packages prevent or reverse negative effects, restore engine performance and reduce fuel consumption and exhaust emission

A person and a sustainable wind turbine with lubricant components

Sustainability Challenges in the Fuel Industry

Reducing particulate emissions

Reducing gaseous pollutants

Reducing CO₂ emissions

Reducing CO₂ Emissions: We Help Our Customer to Reduce Their GHG Emissions

If KEROPUR^® would be used globally >7000 million metric tons of CO, equivalent could be saved

Climate Protection

Climate change is the biggest challenge of our time, we as BASF aim to achieve net zero CO₂ emissions by 2050. To achieve this, we become more efficient in our production and energy usage, we will increase our use of renewable energies and we will accelerate the development and deployment of new CO₂-free processes for the production of chemicals.

A sustainable landscape with lubricant components

BASF Lubricant Components is a frontrunner offering a portfolio with reduced product carbon footprint (PCF) and has strong expertise in full life-cycle analysis. It is possible to reduce the PCF of many products during production, for example by using green electricity or biomass (i.e., via biomass balance (Biomass Balance Approach BASF). The PCFs of some of our Lubricant Components are already lower than the corresponding market benchmarks due to our use of more efficient manufacturing processes (integrated production with highly efficient energy supply) and advantageous raw materials.

Read more about BASF´s Sustainability engagements, activities, goals and achievements

We are a frontrunner in offering customers product carbon footprints according to a certified methodology and a product portfolio with reduced carbon footprint

BASF will achieve its climate protection goal by increasing share of renewable energies, power-to-steam, bio-based feedstocks and continuous process improvements with new technologies

Value chain collaboration is needed to holistically approach climate protection goals. We offer our sustainability expertise to push boundaries in joint sustainability efforts – from cradle to cradle

Our Carbon Management Program

We want to live up to our responsibility for climate protection. One way we do this is with our products, which enable our customers to lower CO₂ emissions.

But that is not all: We also become more efficient in our production and energy use, we will increase our use of renewable energies and we will accelerate the development and deployment of new CO₂-free processes for the production of chemicals.

In order to be able to reduce greenhouse gas emissions on a large scale, the focus is on switching to renewable energy sources. This is because the use of new technologies will replace fossil fuels such as natural gas with electricity from renewable sources in the future.

We also evaluate the impact on the environment during production and the use of products based on renewable raw materials. The use of renewable raw materials broadens our raw materials basis and thus reduces further the dependency on fossil resources.

Product carbon footprint (PCF) and Eco‐Efficiency Calculations

Creating transparency around carbon management on an individual product level

BASF's PCF Offering

Product carbon footprints (PCFs) sum up the total greenhouse gas emissions generated by a product over the different stages of its life cycle. For example, a cradle‐to‐gate (partial) PCF considers all the processes from extraction of resources through manufacturing of precursors and the making of the final product itself up to the point where it leaves the company gate. A cradle‐to‐grave PCF covers the complete life cycle of the product, including the emissions from the use phase and end‐of‐life of the product.

BASF’s PCFs are calculated following general standards for life cycle assessment (ISO 14044) and carbon footprints of products (ISO 14067), as well as the Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol Product Standard.

BASF's PCF calculation is based on GHG emissions from its own plants and high‐quality average data for purchased raw materials as well as purchased energy. BASF will gradually replace average data with supplier specific data for purchased raw materials, as soon as they become available from our suppliers.

PCFs provide our customers with valuable information on levers for avoiding greenhouse gas emissions. Already today we offer them added value through the use of alternative raw materials. In this way, we help our customers reduce the carbon footprint of their products.

Sustainability Digitalization

BASF’s methodology and proprietary digital solution for product carbon footprint calculation has proven its usability beyond our company’s scope. We have shared it with partnering software houses via licensing agreements. Based on BASF’s methodology, our partners develop software for implementation at third parties.

As the existing PCF calculation standards leave room for interpretation and allow different ways of emission allocation, BASF has gone one level deeper in defining additional prescriptive criteria in its PCF methodology. Only if industries follow the same methodology, PCF values will be comparable.

TÜV Rheinland has certified that BASF’s method to calculate cradle-to-gate product carbon footprints is in line with the relevant international standards*.

BASF is now sharing its methodology and digital solution in the industry via an ecosystem of partnerships.

Read more about Partnerships for Product Carbon Footprint methodology

* ISO 14067:2018 https://www.iso.org/standard/71206.html and Greenhouse Gas Protocol Standard https://ghgprotocol.org/product-standard