BASF focuses on reducing emissions

The unit, called ‘Net Zero Accelerator’, focuses on implementing and accelerating projects relating to low-CO₂ production technologies, circular economy and renewable energies. “With the new project organisation, we are continuing to accelerate and create more powerful structures within BASF to achieve our ambitious goals,” said Dr. Martin Brudermüller, Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors of BASF. “This further step demonstrates the determination to drive forward our transformation to a climate-neutral company.”

The ‘Net Zero Accelerator’ unit will be led by Dr. Lars Kissau as President, reporting directly to the Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors. Under Kissau’s leadership, existing and new projects to achieve the CO₂ reduction targets will be launched and driven forward at corporate level worldwide in the future. The aim is to move the projects into the implementation phase over the next few years. By pooling expertise around renewable energies, alternative raw materials and CO₂ reduction technologies, BASF will increase the speed of implementation and achieve scaling effects more quickly, thus making an important contribution to climate protection. In parallel, the operating divisions will continue to work on divisional projects to implement its ambitious CO₂ reduction targets.

Ongoing cross-company projects managed by the new unit include BASF’s activities in the field of circular economy such as ChemCycling^TM or CO₂-free technologies such as methane pyrolysis. Renewable energies are another field of activity. BASF has initiated various projects in this area and signed specific agreements in recent months. Examples include a contract with Vattenfall to acquire a 49.5% stake in the Hollandse Kust Zuid wind farm, with a total capacity of 1.5 GW and a 25-year electricity supply contract to purchase 186 MW of capacity from Ørsted’s planned Borkum Riffgrund 3 offshore wind farm in the German North Sea.

The new project organisation, based in Ludwigshafen, Germany, will start on 1 January 2022, initially with approximately 80 employees.

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