Welcome, Richard and Charlie.
Thank you so much for joining me here today.
We wanted to talk about how innovation and collaboration can
really drive the net zero transition in the chemical
industry.
If you look at the Global Impact Coalition and Clariant’s ambition
overall, what's driving your aspiration to get to net zero?
And why did you engage in in GIC so early on as a founding
member?
Well, I think it's important to understand that for Clariant with
our purpose, greater chemistry between people and planet, the
topic of driving sustainability in the value chains that we
operate in is really core to who we are.
And, and that is reflected on the one hand in the products
that we're developing and the innovations that we're doing,
but also it has an important aspect and how we have to
conduct business because if we do the transformation, we cannot
do it alone.
We have to team up with other like minded companies and in the
value chain or like minded companies in our industry sector
to actually make this transformation happen.
And that's, that's where the Global Impact Coalition provides
us with a unique platform to actually do that.
Thank you.
And, and Charlie, you've often said that sustainability and the
transition to net zero needs to be business case lead.
And that's very much the ethos that you've also put behind the
Global Impact Coalition.
So what has been your vision behind it and how does that
translate into practical work?
So there needs to be obviously a sustainability business case.
There also needs to be an economically viable business case
So this is something that through the Global Impact Coalition
as an enabling platform for companies like
Clariant of course with with many other leading chemical
companies, we are really looking at what are the key opportunity
areas that that make sense for the company, but also
contributes to moving the needle really on the overall
sustainability agenda.
So this is really I would say what the Global Impact Coalition
is focusing on; the enabling platform on one hand of marrying
sustainability with a commercially viable business
opportunity, but also acting as an accelerator, right.
So looking at what are the opportunities that anyone
company would not be able to do alone, what really needs a
collaborative effort and approach in order to to speed up
this journey that that we're all on.
Richard, I'd like to stay on Charlie's point collaboration
and business case led. At Clariant, you focused on
circularity, on bringing down greenhouse gas emissions for a
long time, right?
This is nothing new for you.
However, you're engaging in the Global Impact Coalition.
So what is that giving you on top and how is that enabling you
to go further or faster?
We have to drive down the cost of these sustainable solutions
so that we have broad adoption and and that's and that's where
we see that the Global Impact Coalition focusing on projects
that can decarbonize or create circular value chains really is
helpful because we can work, we can come with the different
expertise that we have with the different tool boxes that we
have and then combine this to get an optimal solution.
And that's pretty unique in the industry.
Thank you for the example, Richard, and thank you for
joining us today.
Thanks, Charlie, to you as well.
Thank you very much, Judith.