"We will invest $5 billion to directly reduce greenhouse gases and $17 billion in restructuring the business," chief executive Kongkrapan Intarajang said at a news conference.New businesses in our portfolio will be low-carbon, like performance and speciality chemicals, he said, adding the company will grow around 4% 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 $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 and CO2 equivalents and will reach a peak of 9.1 million tonnes in 2025.
"There will be a 20% reduction of emissions in 2030 and net zero by 2050," said Kongkrapan. - Reuters