Bayer Climate Program - Leadership Index

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Standards in climate protection

The internationally renowned ranking of the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) - the Carbon Disclosure Leadership Index - rates Bayer AG as the most transparent of the 500 largest stock-market-listed companies in the world. Decision of 475 investors with assets under management of USD 55 trillion.

Climate strategies in the focus of investors and analysts
CDP: “Listed companies are the best placed to prosper in a low carbon economy”
Bayer Management Board Chairman Werner Wenning: “The top position is recognition of our strategic alignment.”

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Bayer honored as world’s best company in climate protection

Index organizer Dickinson: “Listed companies are the best placed to prosper in a low carbon economy of the future”
Bayer CEO Wenning: “Top position is high praise for our strategic alignment”
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The Bayer Group is the world leader in climate protection. This is revealed by the latest Carbon Disclosure Leadership Index, a climate ranking issued by a group of international financial services providers.

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Quotes

We are absolutely delighted to have achieved first place in this prestigious climate index. This is very high praise for Bayer – and our strategic alignment. Our top position reinforces our commitment to continue developing our activities in the field of climate protection in the future as well
Werner Wenning, Chairman of the Board of Management of Bayer AG

We are also sending a message to the governments who will be negotiating a new global climate protection agreement at the end of the year in Copenhagen: We are making a valuable contribution to solving the problem and want to meet our responsibilities as a company
Dr. Wolfgang Plischke, member of the Board of Management of Bayer AG responsible for Innovation, Technology and Environment, and member of the Board of Trustees of the Bayer Foundation

Companies listed in the Carbon Disclosure Leadership Index are rewarded for high quality responses to CDP, which demonstrate a good understanding of how climate change is and will continue to impact their business
Paul Dickinson, CDP Chief Executive

I don’t think I am saying anything new when I say that climate change requires a willingness to approach economic growth in new ways.
Chancellor Angela Merkel, 29 May 2008, International Transport Forum (Quelle: CDP)

Businesses don't own the sky, the public does, and if we want them to stop polluting it, we have to put a price on all pollution. It's time to make the cleaner way of doing business the more profitable way of doing business.
Senator Barack Obama, 8 October 2007, Portsmouth NH (Quelle: CDP)