Public data, as of October 2026

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Bayer Aktiengesellschaft

BAYNbayer.comLatest disclosure 2024

Bayer Aktiengesellschaft reported about 11 million tCO₂e for 2024, and 74% of it sits in Scope 3, in the value chain beyond the company's own operations.

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SBTi statusValidated Targets

Near-term status: Validated Targets. Net-zero status: Validated Targets.

Where insetting fits

Scope 3 is 74% of the footprint, the part of the value chain that supplier emissions reductions can reach.

Peer position

Scope 3 is 74% of the footprint, below the peer median of 95%.

Voluntary retirements

Registry records show about 1,200,000 credits retired for this company.

Emissions

How the reported footprint breaks down by scope and year.

Peer benchmark

How Bayer Aktiengesellschaft compares with its industry peers on Scope 3.

Peers: companies in the SBTi industry "Pharmaceuticals, Biotechnology and Life Sciences", by Scope 3 share of the latest reported footprint.

CompanyScope 3 share%

Bayer AktiengesellschaftThis company74%
McKesson Corporation99%

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tCO₂e, GHG Protocol scopes
Source: published disclosure, FY2024

Reported emissions by year

Scope 1
Scope 2
Scope 3

FY2024

Scope 1, direct	1,880,00017%
Scope 2, purchased energy	1,080,00010%
Scope 3, value chain	8,380,00074%
Total	11,340,000

Years without a matched disclosure stay open until a published source is matched.

Source document: bayer.com

Scope 3 by category, 2024

8 categories itemized

C1Purchased Goods and ServicesLargest category5.9 Mt70%
C2Capital Goods370 kt4%
C3Fuel and Energy Related Activities640 kt8%
C4Upstream Transportation and Distribution600 kt7%
C5Waste Generated in Operations300 kt4%
C6Business Travel210 kt3%
C7Employee Commuting120 kt1%
C12End-of-Life Treatment of Sold Products260 kt3%

Climate targets

What the SBTi listing says about the company's targets.

Status as published by the SBTi

Primary SBTi record: Bayer AG

Near-term targetValidated Targets

Classification: 1.5°C
Target year: 2029

Net-zero targetValidated Targets

Net-zero year: 2050

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Voluntary retirements

Voluntary credits retired for this company on public registries.

Registry records naming the company as beneficiary

ProjectRegistryRetired inCredits retired

REDD+ (VCS1650)Verra2026200,000
Afforestation + Reforestation (VCS961)Verra2025290,000
REDD+ (VCS2611)Verra2025200,000
REDD+ (VCS1168)Verra2025100,000
REDD+ (VCS875)Verra2025100,000
REDD+ (VCS1686)Verra202580,000
REDD+ (VCS1650)Verra202550,000
Afforestation + Reforestation (VCS2401)Verra202550,000
Afforestation + Reforestation (VCS2401)Verra202480,000

These are voluntary market retirements, which sit outside the value chain. Inset credits retired on Carbon3 would appear as their own rows, linked to the supplier project.about 1,200,000 credits in total

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.

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Merck & Co., Inc.87%

AstraZeneca plc98%

Merck KGaA81%

Roche Holding AG96%

Peer median: 95%Scope 3 boundaries differ between reports, so compare shares with care.

Scope 3 position

Below the peer median

The company's Scope 3 share is 74%, against a peer median of 95%.

Disclosure coverage

6 of 6 disclose

6 of 6 named peers report all three scopes, so their Scope 3 share can be compared.

Research summary

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Related projects

Decarbonization projects that name the company as a partner.

Emerging projects catalog, status as reported by each project

ProjectStatus

Illinois Industrial Carbon Capture and Storage (IL-CCS)Operational
CAP2U Lengfurt CCSUnder construction

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