Bayer Vows to Go Carbon-Neutral by 2030 in Green Pledge (1)

Bayer AG plans to become carbon-neutral by 2030, one of several sustainability goals it pledged to monitor as rigorously as financial targets.

The German drug and agriculture giant will switch to 100% renewable electricity, use energy more efficiently and offset other carbon emissions with “biodiversity-enhancing carbon capture,” it said in a statement.

Bayer’s reputation on the matter is complicated, with critics arguing that its Roundup weed killer harms biodiversity and is dangerous to human and animal health. It’s lost three U.S. trials to people who argue that the herbicide caused their cancer and faces more than 42,000 other ...