Our commitment to sustainability

LANXESS is recognized by a number of sustainability indices and rankings its our progress toward sustainable management.

Carbon Disclosure Project

Climate Change

In its current assessment, CDP has given the specialty chemicals company the top grade of “A” in the “Climate” category. This puts LANXESS in the top 2 percent of the more than 24,700 companies evaluated by CDP.

The grade “A” is awarded to companies that report particularly transparently and comprehensively on their activities in climate protection and also implement corresponding projects. To do so, they must demonstrate their strategies and measures, such as setting scientifically sound targets and drawing up a climate protection plan. LANXESS has been disclosing climate protection-related data to CDP since 2012.

Water Security

LANXESS also received an A- grade in the area of water management. The company had set itself specific targets for sustainable water management and launched projects at the four sites in the areas with the greatest water stress to strengthen sustainable water management locally. We were able to confirm the leadership level for water in the last assessment.

CDP: Maximum transparency of environmental data

The independent non-profit organization CDP is dedicated to creating global transparency on greenhouse gas emissions and the management of water resources and forests. In 2025, more than 24,700 companies submitted their data, making the CDP data platform one of the world's most comprehensive sources of environmentally relevant information. CDP reporting now covers over 66 percent of the world's listed market capital, thus demonstrating that it has become a business norm.

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Dow Jones Best-in-Class World Index

LANXESS once again scores highly in terms of sustainability: In 2024 the specialty chemicals company ranked first in the Dow Jones Best-in-Class World Index (formerly: Dow Jones Sustainability Index) in the “Chemicals” category with 79 out of 100 points. In the DJSI World, LANXESS achieved 4th place and scored particularly well in the areas of climate strategy, water, corporate ethics, human rights and product stewardship.

Press release Dow Jones Best-in-Class World Index

Support of the 1.5° pathway

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LANXESS’ climate targets are in line with the Paris Climate Agreement. This has been approved by the renowned Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi). The joint initiative of climate protection organization CDP, UN Global Compact, World

Resources Institute and World Wide Fund for Nature has validated the Group’s targets for reducing its emissions and approved that LANXESS is helping to limit global warming to a maximum of 1.5 degrees. This temperature is generally considered the threshold for preventing a climate catastrophe.

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Approval granted for use by LANXESS

Since March 2020, LANXESS has had a “Prime” rating which is equal to a score among the industry leaders. This rating was confirmed in 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024.

In June 2021, we initially received a rating of AA (on a scale of AAA-CCC) in the MSCI ESG Ratings assessment. This rating was confirmed in 2022, 2023 and 2024.

LANXESS awarded with "Gold" in global EcoVadis assessment

Ecovadis Sustainability Rating Gold Medal for 2024

LANXESS has been part of the industry initiative "Together for Sustainability" (TfS) since 2011. The aim of TfS is to take responsibility for the global supply chain and to initiate improvements on the way to sustainable procurement of goods and services.

As a member, LANXESS was also recently assessed by the EcoVadis agency. We achieved a performance score of 80/100 in the current assessment in 2024 and have thus reached "Gold" status and placed in the top 5% of companies assessed.

EcoVadis, a leading global rating agency for sustainability assessments, conducts the assessments as a partner of Together for Sustainability.

In 2024, the award methodology changed from absolute scores to a comparison of company performances in the EcoVadis database over the past 12 months.

The percentile rank is calculated across all companies and industries.

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