Our commitment to sustainability
LANXESS is recognized by a number of sustainability indices and rankings its our progress toward sustainable management.
About CDP
The climate protection initiative CDP has honored LANXESS for its outstanding commitment to disclose initiatives and data on environmental action.
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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.
Support of the 1.5° pathway
LANXESS awarded with "Gold" in global EcoVadis assessment
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.
