With our goals, we are pursuing a comprehensive approach that includes the entire product life cycle, taking into account social, environmental and economic aspects. Furthermore, we want to make our progress transparent with hard key figures.
Covestro has set ambitious sustainability goals for 2025. We want to further reduce our specific emissions, pass on our sustainability standards to our suppliers, align our research with the goals of the United Nations, improve the livelihoods of ten million people in underserved markets and get the most out of carbon.
Our R&D project portfolio is aligned with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals

100 percent of suppliers compliant with our sustainability requirements

This covers some 97 percent of the total purchasing volume. The remainder of our suppliers has to comply with our code of conduct through accepting the conditions of our purchase orders or contracts. We also partner with our key suppliers in order to advance their sustainability performance.
Reduce specific greenhouse gas emissions by 50 percent

Ten million people in underserved markets benefit from our business solutions

Getting the most out of carbon

With the help of our carbon productivity initiative, we aim to increase the added value of the carbon used by us along the value chain.
Using carbon for the production of polyurethane insulation foam, for example, allows us to save up to 70 times more energy over the course of the whole product lifecycle. This is due to lower energy consumption and reduced emissions.
We want to collaborate with partners along the value chain and people who share our understanding of sustainability in order to develop a significant and universally accepted metric. This will enable us to set a quantitative target for 2025.