Braskem Global
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Our long term ESG objectives
Combating
climate change
Our ambition
Our ambition is to be in the global leadership of petrochemicals with the best indicators in terms of GHG emissions and a key player in carbon capturing through the production of materials with renewable raw materials.
Our long-term ESG objectivesBy 2030, reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in scopes 1 and 2 by 15%.
Increase bioproduct production capacity to 1 milion tons.
Raise the share of renewable electricity to 85% of the total purchased electric power.
Reduce exposure to climate risks identified as high.
Achive 100% in the water security index.
Reach carbon neutraliity by 2050.
Our performance
Braskem has already achieved a reduction potential of more than 1.3 million tons of CO₂e per year through initiatives currently in operation.
Our 2030 decarbonization plan includes 70 prioritized initiatives, with the potential to reduce 1.8 million tons of CO₂e per year by 2030, representing approximately a 17% reduction in emissions compared to the base period (2018, 2019, and 2021).
Mitigation Plan for Climate Change
We have adopted several initiatives focused on energy flexibility, operational efficiency, and increasing the share of renewable sources in our energy matrix, strengthening competitiveness and driving the sustainable transformation of the business.
As part of this movement, Braskem’s Industrial Decarbonization Program was created to guide the strategy and action plans required to achieve the goal of reducing absolute GHG emissions (scopes 1 and 2) by 15% by 2030, using the average emissions from 2018, 2019, and 2020 as a reference.
To date, we have already achieved a potential reduction of more than 1.3 million tons of CO₂e per year through initiatives currently in operation.
removal
Our emission compensation strategy is tied to the use of renewable raw materials as part of our portfolio. Since 2010, over its 10 years of existence, I’m green™ bio-based has avoided the emission of at least 7.13 million tons of CO2, which is equivalent to more than one year of automobile emissions in the city of São Paulo. It is worth noting that the sugarcane resin produced still captures up to 3.09 tons of carbon dioxide during its production process, contributing twice to greenhouse gas emissions and maintaining the same performance as conventional resins.
To meet the growth in the demand of society and our partners for sustainable products, which has increased considerably in recent years, we invested USD 61 million in the expansion of the production of bio-polymers. We are going to increase our production capacity for green ethylene, produced by the Triunfo industrial unit in Rio Grande do Sul, which will increase from 200,000 to 260,000 tons per year. The project, which aims to maintain Braskem in the leadership of the bio-polymer market, will be started in 2021 and should be finalized in the fourth quarter of 2022.
capture
Based on our commitment to sustainable innovation, we have established a partnership with the University of Illinois, in the United States, to research alternatives for the development of ethylene from the capture and use of carbon dioxide (CO2) in industrial processes, especially the burning of fuel. The project is in its initial development stage and our mission is to add our know-how in marketing raw materials and polymer production. The final objective is to assess the possibility of capturing and converting the CO2 emitted in our operation into raw material for polymer production.
The final objective is to evaluate the possibility of capturing and converting the CO₂ emitted in our operation into raw material for the production of polymers.
Climate change adaptation plan
In 2014, we developed a study to identify opportunities and climatic risks in 100% of our operations. Based on this, we created an adaptation plan with actions to mitigate or reduce all major potential climatic risks. Our objective is that all actions be implemented by 2023.
In 2020, we reached 72% compliance with our Adaptation Plan, with an emphasis on the completion of actions relating to the threat of major storms/electrical discharges at all units, the potential impact of greater mapped coverage (in terms of the number of operations impacted).
As our next steps, a residual risk reassessment is planned for all potential threats with 100% of actions completed, thereby strengthening company resilience against these potential extreme events.
As part of this plan, we have the goal of ensuring that all water used by Braskem comes from an origin with a low supply risk.
Given the challenging global scenario – the water risk assessment highlighted severe droughts as being the highest potential risk in Brazil – these assessments are performed periodically and consider the quantity and quality of water required for the operation of all plants per region.
Currently, we have a water safety index of 83%, with only 18.6% of our water consumption coming from high or very high water stress sources.
Learn more about I'm greenTM bio-based
Climate Transition Plan
Aligned with our strategic objectives, Braskem presents its Climate Transition Plan, a document that synthesizes our approach to advancing toward a low-carbon economy. The plan clearly outlines how we guide our mitigation, adaptation, and circularity actions, in line with the international reference TPT (Transition Plan Taskforce).
The plan reinforces Braskem’s commitment to sustainability initiatives such as energy efficiency, increased use of renewable energy, and the expansion of renewable raw materials. It also presents our climate governance structure and value chain management actions, strengthening transparency and accountability throughout this journey. Access the full content here:
Discover our projects and initiatives
Carbon Pricing
Since 2016 we have implemented the Internal Carbon Pricing methodology, "Preço Sombra", with an approach aimed at risk management and potentiating opportunities in the investment decision-making process. In 2020, based on learning from the application in Brazil, a marginal abatement cost curve (MACC) was built with all potential or implemented mitigation initiatives. Based on this analysis, an update of the carbon price was made and a global pricing strategy was defined based on the "Implicit Price", with coverage in 100% of the operations in all the countries in which it operates.
CDP Water
We are part of CDP Water's "A List", which recognizes the best open capital companies in the world in relation to water use management. Today we are part of the select group of 1% of companies in the world that will enter the "A List".
CDP Weather
We are among the leading companies in climate management by CDP for the 7th consecutive time, and we have reached 77% of our climate adaptation plan, in 2021.
Energy Efficiency
We continue to advance our decarbonization agenda with initiatives that strengthen competitiveness and accelerate the energy transition. Highlights include projects such as Vesta, which modernized the ABC plant through equipment electrification, delivering significant gains in efficiency and emissions reduction, and the Biomass project in Alagoas, which fully replaced natural gas use with renewable steam.
I'm green
We are expanding our production capacity for green ethene, a raw material produced from sugarcane ethanol and used for the production of I'm greenT, a renewable resin that captures CO2 from the atmosphere. Located in Triunfo (RS), the industrial unit of this product has a current capacity of 200 thousand tons per year and will increase to 260 thousand tons per year.
Renewable Electric Energy
Braskem has been consistently increasing its share of renewable energy through direct investments and long-term contracts (PPAs). The company aims to reach 85% of purchased electricity from renewable sources across all industrial operations by 2030. To that end, we continue to expand our PPA portfolio across different countries.
In Brazil, these contracts already total more than 220 average MW, enabling the construction of new projects that strengthen the national power system and increase the share of clean energy in the energy matrix.
S&P/B3 ESG Index
Braskem responds annually to the ESG questionnaires from S&P and B3 (Brasil, Bolsa, Balcão), including the ISE (Corporate Sustainability Index) and ICO2 (Carbon Efficient Index), in line with our commitment to transparency. In 2026, Braskem once again joined the ICO2 portfolio of B3.
