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Happy National  ! Bayer stands for equality and diversity because it is really important to us that all of our employees feel at ease at work and have the chance to fully develop their creativity and innovative capability. 🌈

We depend on for the food we eat, and our food depends on . From to soil microorganisms to genetic diversity of crops, a variety of life on the farm is key to sustainable ecosystems for both humans and the environment. Visit the link in our bio to explore initiatives using agriculture to support biodiversity and the health of our planet.

Today is ! During your lifetime, your heart will beat more than 3 billion times. And, it pumps about 70 milliliters of blood with every beat. You have this small but mighty muscle to thank for keeping your cells supplied with oxygen and nutrients.

is a reminder to all of us that contraception is not just a personal matter. It‘s about empowerment of women. Economic liberty. Healthy families. It‘s about freedom of choice.

Protecting our planet from climate change requires more than just conversation. It requires action. The outlines ways we can keep the global temperature well below 2 degrees Celsius, and Bayer is following the lead. We’re implementing new efficiency measures at all of our sites, seeking sustainable from renewable sources like and . With the goal of achieving carbon-neutral production by 2030, we’re reducing our environmental impact.

When it comes to carbon in our atmosphere, has a superpower. Or, more specifically, plants do. Plants take in during photosynthesis and redistribute it in the soil through their roots. This means that farming can actually remove carbon from the atmosphere. And if farmers use practices like cover cropping and reduced or zero tillage, they keep that carbon locked underground, where it can nourish the soil and protect the environment instead of escaping to build up in the atmosphere. Our new business model aims to foster these practices on a broad scale by rewarding for the carbon they store on their farms. This way, they can feed our global population at the same time as helping to reverse .

What’s taboo where? Some topics are more of a taboo than others in different parts of the world. Whether it’s athlete’s foot, yeast infections or sweating, take a look at the map to see the highest searches over the past month by country.

Helping Moria! Since the fire in Europe's largest refugee camp on Lesbos, 13,000 people are homeless. We want to help and provide 28.000 surgical mouth masks for refugees and humanitarian workers to minimize the Coronavirus spread. Thanks to the great collaboration with the Hamburger Hilfskonvoi who will bring the goods to the island on short notice and distribute them there.

Let’s talk about health – now more important than ever. There are too many health taboos that we don’t talk about. Human health should never be taboo. Are you with us? ?

Curing and preventing cancer is one of the main focus areas of @leapsbybayer. Thus, we’re excited to support the development of next-generation cancer therapies that promise to address previously incurable cancers. Triumvira Immunologics Inc. (“Triumvira”), a privately-held biopharmaceutical company developing a novel platform for engineering T-cells to attack cancers, successfully completed a USD 55 million Series A financing round. The financing was co-led by Leaps by Bayer, the impact investment unit of Bayer, and Northpond Ventures.

Empty shelves, lines of shoppers waiting to get into grocery stores, worried people panic-buying – scenes from the novel pandemic have suddenly made us aware of how fragile the supply chains for everyday items that we assumed were secure can be in times of crisis. In order to feed the world in the , there need to be new solutions for . One such solution is . This cultivation method offers a whole range of advantages: In fact, a single vertical farm can grow 4 hectares (10 acres) — or roughly five Olympic-size swimming pools — worth of food on less than half a hectare of land, making it ideal for urban areas and in preserving space for biodiversity (by relieving pressure on natural fallow land that otherwise would be turned into farmland, thereby aiding wildlife conservation). also helps to meet the increasing need and desire for locally-grown produce. Local production eliminates long-distance transportation from producer to consumer, while also reducing loss along the journey and food waste. Tomatoes, peppers, lettuce, and mushrooms : These crops thrive in the controlled microclimates of the fields on each floor - free of the harsh extremes of and seasonality. Correspondingly, these urban farms promise higher yields.

Today is ! Each year, humanity uses more resources than our planet can produce. Today, the demand for ecological resources exceeds what earth can regenerate in a year. Climate change, water scarcity and the loss of biodiversity are among the most pressing challenges of our time. For decades, humans have consumed more natural resources than our planet can replace. This deficit has already left its mark. It is harming people’s health and jeopardizing the supply for a growing world population. Poverty, inequality, disease and hunger are increasing. In many parts of the world, care is still reserved for those who can afford it. is anchored at the core of our strategy. We have established clear targets up to 2030 for our core issues of , and , and want to be judged on how effectively we attain them.