Our changes
Bayer looks to work across its own business functions and with external bodies to tackle the issues raised by climate change, by:
- Minimising our own carbon footprint. For example, at our production sites, between 1990 and 2005, we have cut our greenhouse gas emissions by more than a third, through improved energy efficiency, and the application of new technologies and chemical processes.
- Bayer is working with a range of partners as part of the Min-No project, to look at ways of reducing nitrous oxide emissions, a greenhouse gas three hundred times more damaging that CO2, from agricultural systems.
- Bayer CropScience is also working to develop new varieties of crops, including oilseed rape, maize, and wheat that are more stress-tolerant and produce higher yields. Such work will also involve the use of biotechnology as consumers become more comfortable with its use in agriculture.
