Consistent management and monitoring of sustainable development:

Our performance and objectives

In order to address the ever increasing importance of sustainability reporting, Bayer produced a “Performance Report” for the company’s objectives and performance indicators for the first time for the reporting year 2007. The report includes all of the significant quantitative data and qualitative information for the fields of economics, human resources, human rights, social responsibility, ecology and product stewardship. As Dr. Wolfgang Große Entrup, Head of Environment & Sustainability at Bayer AG, explains: “In this way we can integrate all the relevant information on these issues and hopefully further improve transparency and rapid access to information for our readers, an approach consistent with the many years of environmental and sustainability reporting by our company, which began in 1976 with the publication of our first Environmental Report.”

With its Group Sustainability Program and specific focal initiatives such as the Bayer Climate Program, the company sets clear objectives and backs them up with actions. The implementation of these is measured on the basis of central performance indicators and specific qualitative factors, and is published annually in the Sustainable Development Report.

“In this report, we are for the first time covering all of the indicators recommended by the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) in its current guidelines on sustainable development reporting (G3),” explains Große Entrup. In its reporting, the company is also following the recommendations and guidelines of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), the Greenhouse Gas Protocol and the European Chemical Industry Council (CEFIC).