Sustainability at Evonik Health Care

Leading beyond to improve life today and tomorrow

Sustainability is fully integrated into Evonik’s corporate strategy  and is an integral part of our purpose – to improve life, today and tomorrow. We have identified three major strategic levers that help us to deliver on our ambitious sustainability goals.

These levers are the basis for Next Generation Evonik:

Next Generation
Technologies

Optimization of production processes and infrastructure to avoid greenhouse gas emissions

Next Generation
Solutions

Products with superior sustainability benefits

Next Generation
Culture

A shift in mindset, creating positive narratives and fostering diversity

Sustainability drives us

To measure our progress, we align Evonik’s three levers above with the aspects of sustainability that are important to our business:
 

  • The ecological footprint is an accounting tool that measures the demand on and supply of nature: how fast we consume resources and generate emissions and waste. It was conceived by two researchers at the University of British Columbia in 1990 and started a broader Footprint movement, including the carbon Footprint.
     
  • The ecological handprint refers to the positive impact a business or organization can have on ecological and socio-economical sustainability.
     
  • The heartprint describes the transformative impact towards greater sustainability. Through the heartprint, an organization, society or group creates a sustainable mindset and inspires sustainable action by developing positive narratives and setting attractive incentives.

Sustainability at Evonik Health Care

Sustainability is the guiding business principle for Evonik’s life sciences division, Nutrition & Care. Our solutions help to combat climate change, drive circularity, safeguard ecosystems and ensure health and well-being.

At Evonik Health Care, we support our customers to develop effective medication and treatments for a healthy life, while minimizing negative environmental impacts.

Sustainability drives us towards a future shaped by advanced biosolutions. Inspired by innovation, more than 70 percent of our portfolio will be next-generation solutions by 2030 – providing value to partners and enhancing patient outcomes.

We deliver high-quality health solutions using renewable energy and feedstocks, we smartly recycle materials, and we are committed to being climate neutral
in Scope 1 and 2 emissions by 2030
.

We are embedding sustainability into every aspect of our business, fostering collaboration with customers, partners and between employees – creating system solutions that meet the complex challenges of the industry, while enhancing life and protecting our planet.
 

FOOTPRINT

 

We aim to become climate neutral in Scope 1 and 2 emissions by 2030.

HANDPRINT

 

We aim to generate more than 70% of our total revenue with Next Generation Solutions by 2030.

HEARTPRINT

 

We aim to create positive narratives to translate a passion for sustainability into action at work and at home.

Layers of responsibility at Evonik Health Care

At Evonik Health Care, we work with several different parameters and categories that help us to take a holistic approach to sustainability. We have organized our examples into the matrix below using the three main strands of sustainability: Economy, Environment and Society.

Click on each example to find out more on the respective page on our website. You can also download the corresponding onepagers for more information about each example in the download section at the top of this page.

Economy

Environment

Society

Employees

Continuous safety improvements

Society

Next generation oral excipients

Engagement

Learning culture

Leadership

Sustainability Council

Culture of care

Mental well-being