Agriculture
TripleS Portfolio Steering
Supporting our customers’ green transformation requires a resilient and transparent product portfolio, aligned with future sustainability demands. With our TripleS methodology (Sustainable Solution Steering), we provide the corresponding framework, which systematically evaluates the environmental and social performance of our products across their entire lifecycle and identifies where improvements or opportunities to contribute to sustainability exist.
TripleS, our Sustainable Future Solutions, enable clear segmentation of our global portfolio and highlight the solutions that deliver measurable sustainability value. We ensure that our portfolio evolves in step with market expectations and supports customers in achieving their sustainability goals by continuously reassessing our products, integrating new regulatory developments, and applying circular design principles in R&D.
We are long-term supporters of farmers and farming – with more than 100 years’ experience – and we will continue to invest in a strong R&D pipeline.
What is our approach?
We developed our Sustainable Solution Steering method to assess our entire product portfolio against clearly defined sustainability criteria. This in turn enables us to actively steer investment in our strong R&D pipeline towards more innovative solutions with a favorable regulatory profile from an early stage. Thereby we ensure that our innovation in crop protection, breeding technologies, trait research, and pheromones and biologicals provides growers with tangible sustainability benefits. The method is unique in the chemical industry, third party certified, and independently audited. It illustrates how we take our non-financial targets as seriously as our financial ones.
Every product in our portfolio is evaluated for its contribution to sustainability in the following eight categories:
TripleS: transparent sustainability for our customers
The TripleS method is spinning for Sustainable-Future Solutions (SFS) by defining the balance between the three dimensions of sustainability - Environment, Society and Economy. We are committed to find sustainable solutions by connecting creative minds while sourcing and producing responsibly.
A two-step process leads to a differentiation of our product portfolio into five sustainability segments (Pioneer, Contributor, Standard, Monitored, Challenged). These five TripleS segments cover the full range of sustainability performance, from solutions with a substantial sustainability contribution, to solutions performing on market standard, to solutions with a significant sustainability concern.
