Delivering on our Sustainability Targets
Farming has always thrived on innovation. From the very beginning, farmers have sought better ways to nourish themselves, their families and their communities. This continues today as we continually strive to find more sustainable solutions that can help farmers grow enough to support a growing population.
At Bayer, our global presence, leading market position in agriculture and tailored farming solutions are driving the shift toward regenerative agriculture. We aim to decrease the climate footprint of farming, reduce the environmental impact of crop protection, enable smallholder farmers, and improve water use.
At the same time, we'll work to restore nature by improving soil health, enhancing biodiversity, reducing water usage and sequestering carbon. We're doing this while also supporting farmers in their efforts to increase agricultural yields, farm productivity and incomes with new sources of revenue.
Our Crop Science division’s sustainability transformational targets focus on the following key areas:
By 2030, Bayer aims to:
- Enable our farming customers to reduce their on-field greenhouse gas emissions per mass unit of crop produced by 30% compared to the overall base year emission intensity1. This applies to the highest greenhouse gas emitting crop systems in the regions Bayer serves with its products.2
- Reduce the treated-area-weighted environmental impact per hectare of our global crop protection portfolio by 30% by 2030 against a 2014 – 2018 average baseline.
- Support a total of 100 million smallholder farmers in LMICs by improving their access to agricultural products and services, including in collaboration with our partners.
- Improve water use per kilogram of crop by 25% by 2030 by transforming rice-cropping systems for our smallholder customers in the relevant regions where we operate, starting in India3.
1Our reduction target refers to an overall base year greenhouse gas intensity that includes the weighted emission intensities of 17 crop-country combinations (CCCs). In 2024, the CCC Australia-Cotton was removed from the scope due to the unavailability of data. Base years are defined individually for each CCC, using data from either harvest year 2021 or 2022 depending on the availability of data. Base years were adjusted in 2024 due to additional data requirements based on an updated GHG calculator methodology and lack of data availability from prior years.
2The CCCs Italy-Corn and Spain-Corn were not selected based on these factors but were additionally included because data were already available.
3Base year calculated with data from 2021, validation process still ongoing