Heraeus Precious Metals GmbH & Co. KG

Heraeus Precious Metals GmbH & Co. KG, headquartered in Germany, reported total emissions of approximately 8.75 billion kg CO2e in 2025. This includes about 17.02 million kg CO2e from Scope 1 emissions, around 22.18 million kg CO2e from Scope 2 market-based emissions (or approximately 31.29 million kg CO2e from Scope 2 location-based emissions), and approximately 8.73 billion kg CO2e from Scope 3 emissions.

Looking back, the company's total emissions were approximately 8.52 billion kg CO2e in 2024 and approximately 9.05 billion kg CO2e in 2023. For 2020, total emissions were around 13.22 billion kg CO2e.

Heraeus Precious Metals GmbH & Co. KG has set ambitious climate commitments. The company aims to be carbon-neutral for its own operations by 2025. This commitment includes a 20% reduction in energy consumption and a transition to 100% green electricity, with only residual emissions of less than 10% being offset. They intend to achieve net zero in their own operations by transitioning processes to electricity or green hydrogen.

Furthermore, the company has set a target to reduce its Scope 1 emissions by 42% by 2030, against a 2021 baseline. Similarly, they aim to reduce their Scope 2 emissions by 42% by 2030, also against a 2021 baseline. Heraeus Precious Metals GmbH & Co. KG has also committed to a long-term net-zero target as part of the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) with a 1.5°C alignment.