Reporting by Chayut Setboonsarng; Editing by Martin Petty
BANGKOK : Thai chemical firm, PTT Global Chemical Pcl on Thursday said it plans to invest over US$22 billion in the next three decades to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2050.
“We will invest US$5 billion to directly reduce greenhouse gases and US$17 billion in restructuring the business,” chief executive Kongkrapan Intarajang said at a news conference.
This will include efficiency improvements, energy storage, and carbon capture technology, he said.
New businesses in our portfolio will be low-carbon, like performance and speciality chemicals, he said, adding the company will grow around 4per cent over the next five to six years.
In July, it bought German https://www.reuters.com/article/us-allnex-m-a-pttgc-idUSKBN2EI0L0 coating resins maker Allnex for US$4.75 billion, but the rate of carbon emission to growth came down because it was a low-carbon business.
This year PTTGC, a unit of the state-owned PTT Pcl, released about 8 million tonnes of greenhouse gas (GHG) and CO2 equivalents and will reach a peak of 9.1 million tonnes in 2025.
“There will be a 20per cent reduction of emissions in 2030 and net zero by 2050,” said Kongkrapan.
Source: Reuters
