How Our Human Rights Policies Help Protect the Environment
- Minimize impact on climate change aligned with the Paris Climate Agreement, striving towards carbon neutrality
- Minimize vehicle criteria and greenhouse gas emissions and increase energy efficiency
- Consider environmental performance throughout the life of a vehicle and address in-service concerns
- Use recycled and renewable materials, reduce substances of concern, and improve recyclability of our products through material selection and product design
- Achieve continual environmental improvement in manufacturing
- Reduce emissions, increase energy efficiency, and utilize renewable energy in our manufacturing operations
- Mimic ecosystem performance, eliminate waste, divert waste from landfill to products, reduce fresh water usage, reduce single use plastic, and support safe and accessible drinking water in our manufacturing operations and communities
- Utilize materials with reduced toxicity in our manufacturing processes
- Follow Ford procedures designed to safeguard the environment when we discontinue manufacturing operations
- Conduct environmental due diligence in connection with potential real estate transactions
We work with leading NGOs and have co-founded consortiums to ensure raw materials are responsibly produced.
- The Public-Private Alliance for Responsible Minerals Trade
- The Responsible Minerals Initiative
- The Copper Mark
- The Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance
- The Global Platform for Sustainable Natural Rubber
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Ford is guided by the following to help ensure our human rights efforts support both people and the environment:
Our formal company policy that protects human rights and environmental sustainability within the communities in which we operate, respecting the United Nations (UN) Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights and supporting the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Our guidelines for suppliers that outlines our requirements and expectations for supplier relationships including the protection of human rights and the environment, the responsible sourcing of materials, responsible and lawful business practices and the associated implementation of these principles.
Our reporting requirements which require qualifying businesses to provide disclosures related to steps being taken to ensure that slavery and human trafficking are not taking place in our supply chains or any other part of our business.
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