BASF is setting itself even more ambitious goals on its path towards climate neutrality and wants to be climate neutral by 2050. Based on the latest advances in the development of CO 2 -reduced and CO 2 -free technologies, the company is also significantly increasing its medium-term reduction target for greenhouse gas emissions by 2030: BASF aims to reduce the amount of greenhouse gases emitted by 25 percent worldwide compared to 2018 – and this despite the targeted growth and the establishment of a large Verbund site in southern China. Without taking the planned growth into account, this means halving CO 2 -Emissions in existing business by the end of the decade. Overall, BASF is planning investments of up to EUR 1 billion by 2025 and a further EUR 2 billion to EUR 3 billion by 2030 to achieve the new climate target. In 2018, the BASF Group's global emissions were 21.9 million tons of CO 2 -Equivalents. In 1990 they were about twice as high.