Climate Protection

Keeping global warming under control is amongst the most crucial challenge humankind is facing.  Climate change is already affecting our environment. It will further affect our habitat, our fresh water supply, our food production capacity and the lives of many. Most of the world’s man-made greenhouse gases emissions are caused by fossil fuels combustion for heating, power production and transportation. Besides the reduction of its own footprint, Borealis is committed to advance solutions that innovative plastics bring to protect our climate.

Bringing an informed perspective

As a leader in the plastics industry, Borealis is often asked about the carbon performance of its operations and its management practices while the carbon footprint of  plastics is also questioned across our value chain. To address these questions, Borealis has issued a comprehensive paper on its approach to climate protection and the carbon footprint of polyolefins applications;

Reducing our own emissions

Borealis continuously strives to minimise its carbon footprint and ambitions to outperform European CO₂ targets. Over the past five years, Borealis has reduced by a third  its direct CO₂ emissions (down to 1,54 MT), thus respecting Borealis' commitment to Responsible Care.

Offering more carbon friendly solutions

Plastics make a key contribution to the reduction of greenhouse gases emissions. Enhancing the energy efficiency and carbon performance of advanced materials we produce is key to our value creation through innovation strategy. For advanced packaging – Compared to a traditional LDPE, our Borstar® grades make possible to reduce by 40% CO₂ emissions during the life of the applications.

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