SUSTAINABILITY
AT A GLANCE.
LEADING BEYOND CHEMISTRY2

SUSTAINABILITY AT A GLANCE.

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For us, being a best-in-class specialty chemical company
does not simply mean creating new molecules. For us,
it means improving life for as many people as possible.
Day by day. Today and for future generations. On thefollowing pages, we give you an insight into how we run
our business and drive forward sustainability in the EvonikGroup. You can find more detailed information in our
www.evonik.com/sustainability-reportsustainability report.

We accept responsibility
We are convinced that only companies that act responsibly
and create value for society can be successful in the longterm. Our products and solutions help our customers meettheir sustainability goals and position themselves for the
future. For that we rely, above all, on our innovative capa­
bility. Foresighted resource management and integrating
sustainability into our corporate strategy are key elementsof our sustainability strategy.

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billionsales

billionadjusted
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thousand
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All information relates to FY 2021.

We are Evonikof sales comefrom leading
market positions

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nationalities

femaleemployees

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INTENSIVEDIALOGUE WITH
STAKEHOLDERS4

SUSTAINABILITYIN OUR CORPORATESTRATEGY

p. 5

FORESIGHTEDRESOURCE
MANAGEMENTNEXT GENERATIONSOLUTIONSSUSTAINABILITY
FOCUS AREAS

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LEADING BEYOND CHEMISTRYTO IMPROVE LIFE, TODAY AND TOMORROW
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MEASURABILITY OF
OUR SUSTAINABILITY
ACTIVITIESIMPACT OF OUR
BUSINESS

SDGs OF RELEVANCE
TO EVONIKCONTINUOUS
IMPROVEMENT

p. 11

p. 12

p. 13

p. 14

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OUR PURPOSEHIGHLIGHTS OUR STRENGTHSAs we strive to become the best specialty chemicals company in the world,
we are moving beyond chemistry.
We are interlinking disciplines, skills, and perspectives with one anotherso that as a partner of our customers we can create value-generating
and sustainable solutions.
As a result, we play a leading role in our markets and in the developmentof our industry.
The answer to the question of why we exist lies in the passion with which
we provide our customers’ products with special characteristics:

in order to make people’s lives better, day after day.

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INTENSIVE DIALOGUEWITH STAKEHOLDERS

We are in constant dialogue with our stakeholders on requirements that affect our company and society.
Evonik seeks this exchange to be able to react quickly to important future trends, global developments
and changing market requirements. We distinguish between stakeholders with direct and indirect influence.
The graph shows only the direct stakeholders.

Business

Financial Market

Customers

Lenders

Employees

Shareholders

Suppliers

Legislators

Society/community

Legislators

Local residents

Authorities

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SUSTAINABILITY IN
OUR CORPORATE STRATEGY

Our sustainability strategy

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CO2
– 25%
absolute
scope 1 and 2
emissions2021 – 2030

CO2 pricing
as an additional
planning criterion
for major
investments

Water
Global water management
system: development of site-­specificaction plans for potentiallywater-stress-prone sites

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Portfolio
Strategic focus on
growth businesses
with a strong
sustainability profile€95 per t CO2

The E
SDGs
most relevancefor Nations’Evonikvonikofsupports
the United
Sustainable Development Goals andintensively examines its own positive andnegative contributions. We have identified
the four most important SDGs for the
Evonik Group and pay special attention
to them. p. 13

Targets& measures	We provide
information on specific measuresand targets on our website

and in our sustainability report.
Our increasingly strong focus on sustainability isrecognized by important ratings and rankingsp. 14.
In addition, we are continuously improving
our reporting.

Standards & guidelines

Sustainability
analysis of thebusiness covering all
chemicals activities

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SUSTAINABILITY FOCUS AREAS

We cluster our contributions to a sustainable transformation into four Sustainability Focus Areas (SFA) Fight Climate
Change, Drive Circularity, Safeguard Ecosystems and Ensure Health & Wellbeing. For each SFA, we show how Evonikreduces its own ecological footprint as well as the handprint resulting from the use of our products and solutions in
the relevant markets. www.evonik.com/sustainability-report, p. 59
Fight Climate Change

Drive Circularity

Safeguard Ecosystems

Ensure Health & Wellbeing

Handprint

Handprint

Handprint

Handprint• Evonik products that help customers
avoid CO₂ emissions• Enabling circular solutions in a wide
range of end-markets• Reducing emissions into water and air;responsible water and waste management• Reducing volatile organic compounds
and emissions of microplastics• Transformative innovations that enable
progress towards climate-neutrality• Driving forward circular plastics
throughout the value chain• Careful use of freshwater in industry
and agriculture• Enabling effective health promotion• Reducing food waste• Enabling resource- and nutrient-efficient
livestock farming and aquaculture

Footprint• Defossilization of the supply chain• Reduction in scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions• Use of renewable energies• Reduction in absolute and specificenergy consumption

Footprint• Use of renewable and circular
raw materials

Footprint• Sustainable procurement of oleochemicals
and other bio-based raw materials• Lower water intake at production sites inareas subject to water stressWe define our handprint as the positive effects generated by our products along the supply chain compared with other established products and applications, especially in customers’ applications.

• Hygiene and water treatment

Footprint• Reduction in hazardous emissions• Reduction in hazardous waste

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NEXT GENERATION SOLUTIONSOur Next Generation Solutions meet the rising demand
for resource-efficient products and have attractive
growth rates.
We already generate 37 percent of our sales with products
and solutions that have a strongly positive sustainability
profile (Next Generation Solutions). We intend to increase
their percentage of total sales to more than 50 percents
until 2030.

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www.evonik.de/sepuran-green

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www.evonik.com/sustainable-feed

www.evonik.de/resomerwww.evonik.com/poultry

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FORESIGHTEDRESOURCE MANAGEMENT
At our “water stress” site in Onzonilla(Leon, Spain), the previous open
cooling system has been replaced
by a closed cooling tower.
This reduces water requirements
by about 40 percent.

Reducing absolute scope 1
and scope 2 emissions

-25 %
CO2

2021

2030

Construction of the new gas and steam turbine power plants at Marl Chemical Park.

We are committed to the Paris
Agreement on Climate Change
and Science-Based Targets.
We want to achieve climate
neutrality by 2050.

Im Rahmen unseres globalen Wassermanagementsystems entwickeln
wir standortspezifische
Maßnahmenpläne. Diesbezieht sich insbesondere
auf Standorte in Regionen
mit poten­ziellem Wasserstress. Außerdem streben
wir einen möglichst­effizienten Umgang mit
Wasser an.

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FORESIGHTEDRESOURCE MANAGEMENTState of the art are large high-performance windRenergies are the key to sustainable enewableturbines.
This is made possible by high-performance
power generation.
energy plays a key
products
from Evonik,Windsuch as:role in this. According to calculations by theIntergovernmental Panel on Climate Change,  NUFLUX™ Technology
these plants emit the lowest amount of CO2 
AEROSIL® per kilowatt hour of electricity
equivalents
generated over their life cycle.
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MEASURABILITY OF OURSUSTAINABILITY ACTIVITIES

Sustainability analysis and portfolio management

2021 haben wir die Nachhaltigkeitsanalyse1 auf das gesamte ­Portfolio
Identifying the signal categories
von Evonikangewendet.
Heute erwirtschaftet Evonik:(PARC= Product Application
Region Combination)

Challenged (C--) 1%

Definition of PARCs

Transitioner(C-) Generation
8%
Next
Solutions

LEADER

1 Critical substances2	Regulatoryand global
 1 Prozent des Umsatzes mit Produkten, die
9mitihremtrends
Nach­conventions
haltigkeitsprofil ­mindestens
Application auf Marktniveau liegen,

Performer ≈ 54%

3	Sustainability ambitions along
the value chain

Product

113 7 Prozent des Umsatzes mit Next Generation Solutions, die mit
4	Eco labels, certification and standards
ihrem ausgeprägten positiven Nachhaltig­keitsprofilüber bzw.
5	Relative ecological and social
sogar deutlich über Marktniveau liegen.
sustainability performance
Region1 Further optional signal categories whereappropriate

	Die Methodik wurde im Rahmen des World Business Council for Sustainable Development mit aktiver Beteiligung von Evonik entwickelt.

The sustainability analysis of our business is based on the Portfolio
Sustainability Assessment (PSA) of the World Business Council for
Sustainable Development (WBCSD). Evonik has been involved in
the development of this methodology from the very beginning. The
PSA follows signal categories that are based on the value chains of therespective businesses and takes into account sustainability aspects―
from the supply chain to production and subsequent application.

DRIVER

14,95 Mrd. €UmsatzPERFORMER
TRANSITIONER

1

37 %Next Generation
Solutions 1

Integrating thefindings into ourstrategic management process

91%

CHALLENGED

Next Generation Solutions schließen „Leader“- und „Driver“-Produkte und -Lösungen ein.

In practice, Evonik has divided the portfolio into more than
460 PARCs. PARC stands for product-application-region combinationand describes the differentiated assessment of a product group in
its specific application and region. The sustainability performance
determined in this way is therefore considered along three axes
(product, region, application).

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8IMPACT OF OUR BUSINESS
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Areas of action

SDGs of relevance for Evonik

Impact type

Supply chain
Negative

EvonikPositive

Negative

Positive

End of life cycle
Negative

Positive

Value added

Strategy and growth
thereof taxes
Greenhouse gas
emissionsWater
consumption

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and products

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Employees
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training and CPD

a	The impact analysis was outside the scope of the auditor’s limited assurance engagement. The Chart aboveshows Evonik’s impact along the value chain, excluding induced effects, which were calculated separately.

bc

It is not possible to calculate all monetary impacts along the value chain as not all data are available.

	The impact of raw materials and supplies used in production is taken into account insupply chain/raw materials “upstream.”Type and scope of impact
Negative Positive

High (over €1 billion)
Medium (€100 million to €1 billion)
Low (up to €100 million)
Not calculated

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SDGs OF RELEVANCE FOR EVONIK

Evonik supports
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The SDGs of particular relevanceof Evonik are:Ein gesundes Leben füralle ­Menschen jeden Alters
gewähr­leisten und ihr
Wohl­ergehen fördern

Verfügbarkeit und nachhaltige
Bewirtschaftung von Wasser
und Sanitärversorgung für alle
gewährleisten

Nachhaltige Konsumund ­Produktionsmuster
sicherstellen

Umgehend Maßnahmen zur
Bekämpfung des ­Klimawandels
und seiner Auswirkungenergreifen

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CONTINUOUS
IMPROVEMENT

We achieve our transparency aspirations by continuously improving our sustainability reporting. www.evonik.com/sustainabilityreport. The capital markets notice and value our strategic and operational progress towards greater sustainability. Evonik is positioned
among the leaders in renowned sustainability ratings and rankings. In May 2022, we successfully placed our second green bond.

RATINGS AND INDICESSUSTAINABILITY AWARDSDie Ratingagentur Morgan Stanley CapitalInternational (MSCI) hat die Leistungenvon Evonik im Bereich Nachhaltigkeit
2021 erstmals mit „AA“ gewürdigt.
Damit stieg Evonik in die Kategorie„Leader“ auf. In den Jahren zuvor hatte
MSCI Evonik bereits viermal mit „A“ausgezeichnet.

CDP Climate Change again awarded usa grade of A-, and CDP Water Security
awarded us a grade of B. We also partici­
pated in CDP Forest, where we wereawarded a grade of B. In addition, Evonik
was ranked as a CDP
Supplier Engagement
SUPPLIER
Leader in 2021. ENGAGEMENTLEADERDie League of American Communications
Professionals (LACP) würdigte denNach­haltigkeitsbericht 2020 von Evonik
erneut mit dem Vision Award in Platin.

Für den Nachhaltigkeitsbericht 2020
erhielt Evonik in der Kategorie„Design/Graphics“ den ARC Award inSilber.

Die Nachhaltigkeitsleistung der Evonik
wurde von der Ratingagentur Sustainalytics untersucht: Bei insgesamt rund 130
betrachteten Unternehmen der Chemiebranche gehört Evonik zu den besten
10 Prozent.

Evonik ist Mitglied im FTSE4Good Europe
Index sowie im FTSE4Good Developed
Index. Diese Indexfamilien der Londoner
FTSE Group bewerten Unternehmen beispielsweise in den Kategorien „Umweltmanagement“, „Menschen- und Arbeitsrechte“, „Sicherheit und Gesundheit“,„Nach­haltigkeit in der Lieferkette“ sowie„Corporate Governance/Unternehmensführung“.

Unser Nachhaltigkeitsbericht 2020
gewann bei den FOX Finance Awards„Gold” und bei den FOX Visuals Awards„Silber”.

Die Deutsche Energie-Agentur (dena)zeichnete Evonik und den südbadischen
Energieversorger Energiedienst AG für
das gemeinsame Abwärmeprojekt amStandort Rheinfelden mit dem Energy
Efficiency Award 2021 aus.

www.evonik.com/CDP-ClimateChange
2021

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EVONIK – LEADING ININNOVATION€

464

millionCreavisis Evonik’s strategic innovation
Innovation
the future incubator. Creavis’ three
unitUnboxingand businessincubation clusters are:280

R&D expenses

R&D ratio: 3.1 %new patent applications

Investment

˜

24,000 Defossiliation
Solutions for a net-zero CO2 emission-free society
 Life Sciences
Sustainable solutions for nutrition and health promotion ofa growing and aging world population

patents and pending patents

Global R&D network

2,600
R&D employees> 30

R&D locations

All information relates to FY 2021.

~

40

venture capital
investments give us
access to innovativetechnologies and new
business options.

 Solutions beyond chemistry
Solutions to replace outdated, unsustainable and wasteful systems

Innovation
growth fields
With
our innovations
growth fields we aim to generate
additional sales of over €1 billion by 2025. The innovation
growth fields are:Sustainable Nutrition

Membranes

Healthcare Solutions

Cosmetic Solutions

Advanced
Food
IngredientsFilling of a special methionine
Highest-load
omega-3
powderfor dietary supplements
for dairy cows

Additive
Manufacturing
High-performancepolymers
for 3D printingCredits
Published by

Evonik Industries AG
Rellinghauser Strasse 1 – 1145128 Essen
Germany
www.evonik.com

Contact

Sustainability
Head of Sustainability: Stefan Haver
Sustainability Relations
Hannelore Gantzer
sustainability@evonik.com

For further information on sustainability at Evonik,
please see our sustainability report atwww.evonik.com/sustainability-report

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