World Population Day

July 11 is World Population Day every year. It serves as a reminder that humanity should only respond to global population growth with sustainable measures in order to secure the future of coming generations.

Let's go

A 3D-rendered image: it shows tomatoes in a greenhouse. Underneath are pipes through which data is also symbolically flowing.

Clean Water

Clean cultivation

Sustainable food production needs new forms of cultivation that use less land and water and require as few pesticides as possible. Evonik is helping to make this possible—with environmentally friendly chemistry and digital technology

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Water as a resource: distribution, costs, availability

Water is distributed extremely unequally throughout the world. Where is this resource available in abundance, and where is it scarce? Who wastes it, and who uses it sparingly? And how much does this important raw material cost? A numerical overview

Nutrition

A plentiful and sustainable diet

Nearly ten billion people will be living on the planet in 2050—but what will all these people eat? Far-reaching changes will have to be made—and quickly—if a sufficient amount of healthy food is to be made available to the world’s population without putting excessive strain on the Earth’s natural resources

A Ghanaian woman stands in front of a wide trunk of a baobab tree. She is carrying a basket on her head and smiling at the camera.

Biosolutions

Benefiting from the Tree of Life

The fruit of the African baobab tree serves as an important source of income for the local population and provides broad benefits beyond Africa—as a superfood and as an ingredient in skin and hair care products.

Im Südtiroler Wipptal wird seit 2017 Biogas produziert. Das daraus gewonnene Biomethan dient in verflüssigter Form den Lkw mehrerer lokaler Speditionen als Treibstoff.

Energy Transition

Ultrapure gases from slurry and manure

Trash, manure, and wastewater have lots of potential. The biogas extracted from them with the help of high-performance membranes from Evonik provides energy carriers and valuable raw materials for industry. A plant in the South Tyrol shows on a small scale how a problem can become a profitable solution for everyone involved

Good to Know

That’s better: Sustainable greenbacks

Investment in climate-friendly technologies has been rising for years.

A gloved hand holds up an ampoule labeled “cancer vaccine”

SDG

Fighting Cancer

One of the great hopes of cancer research is mRNA. With its help, it should be possible to fight cancer in a much more targeted way.

Round pond from above, Fanal, Madeira, Portugal

SDG

Clean and stay clean

Clean water is a human right. Evonik has developed a bio-based surfactant that is suitable for use in cleaning agents, personal care products, and industrial applications. It is 100 percent biodegradable after use.

A cross-section of a membrane unit: thousands of fiber ends can be seen.

SDG

Fibers for Future

Evonik's hollow fiber membranes turn mixed gases into pure raw materials, such as biogas into biomethane and biocarbonic acid of the highest purity.

A service ship is moored at sea next to tall wind turbines under construction.

SDG

We are powered by Wind

Evonik not only produces many materials for wind turbines, but is also increasingly converting its own energy supply from fossil fuels to renewable energy from offshore wind farms. The goal is to achieve production without carbon dioxide emissions.