SABIC

This award recognises SABIC for combining verified circular materials at commercial scale with one of the most rigorous industrial decarbonisation programmes in the chemical sector. By end-2025, SABIC had reduced its Scope 1 and 2 GHG intensity by 22.9%, total absolute emissions by 16.9%, flaring by 57% and energy intensity by 12.8% against a 2010 baseline. Its Trucircle programme has delivered certified circular products at industrial volume, including Saudi Arabia's first bread packaging made with 100% mass-balanced recycled polyethylene.

Its demonstration plant for electrically heated steam crackers — developed jointly with BASF and Linde — is capable of reducing CO₂ emissions by 90% using renewable electricity. These are operational results, not roadmaps. The strategic significance of SABIC's 2025 results lies in their simultaneity: circularity and deep decarbonisation are being delivered not as sequential phases but as concurrent operational realities within the same industrial footprint. Its electrically heated steam cracker demonstration — developed jointly with BASF and Linde, capable of reducing process emissions by 90% using renewable electricity — provides a replicable blueprint for the global petrochemical sector, where cracking alone accounts for a significant share of industrial greenhouse gas output.

For delivering both circularity and decarbonisation as measurable, commercial realities, SABIC receives this recognition.