Since 2008, BASF has been the only industrial company worldwide to regularly publish a comprehensive corporate carbon footprint. We contributed our know-how to the development of a standard for reporting greenhouse gas emissions along the value-adding chain (the Greenhouse Gas Protocol’s Scope 3 standard). For the first time in 2010, our reporting takes into account this draft standard and includes emissions from the oil and gas business. For instance, we include the emissions that occur when our customers burn oil and gas produced by our subsidiary Wintershall. We also recalculated how our climate protection products such as insulation materials, fuel additives and industrial catalysts reduce our customers’ carbon emissions: A total of 322 million metric tons of CO2 emissions are avoided (2008: 287 million metric tons). We aim to continuously increase this contribution to climate protection. 
Corporate carbon footprint 2010
Significant greenhouse gas emissions along the BASF value-adding chain1
(in million metric tons of CO2 equivalent)
1 According to Greenhouse Gas Protocol, Scope 1, 2 and 3 (including the reporting of emissions resulting from purchases and sales of electricity and steam)
Avoidance of greenhouse gas emissions through the use of BASF products by sector (in million metric tons of CO2 equivalent)
