Climate change - at the top of Bayer's agenda

At our Norwich CropScience manufacturing site, for instance, we are now able to return energy to the grid. Our offices at Uxbridge, Cambridge and our regional headquarters in Newbury (where 60% of all waste is now recycled) - all have actively managed carbon footprint reduction programmes, targeting key areas such as energy consumption, business travel and waste generation/management/recycling.

In 2011, Bayer UK/Ireland ran an internal competition to raise an awareness of environmental issues. As a result of the challenge, Bayer’s UK headquarters witnessed dramatic reductions in electricity and paper use and more staff committing to going green.

Globally, Bayer is a partner in the United Nations Environmental Programme, and is the first European chemical and pharmaceutical company to be continuously included in the Carbon Disclosure Leadership Index. Bayer has now been included, for ten consecutive years, in the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index. Our Climate Change Programme includes a €1 billion investment in key landmark projects, harnessing Bayer's expertise to improve not only its own environmental performance, but that of its customers too.

Bayer continues to support the UNEP International Children’s Painting Competition which was founded in 1991 by the Japanese Foundation for Global Peace and Environment.  The competition has grown and become a global partnership between Bayer and UNEP.  In the 20th year of its existence, 600,000 children from all around the world took part. In addition, another 3.4 million girls and boys from China aged between six and 14 entered a special competition organized with the help of a local partner.