Our purpose is bigger than building vehicles.
We are helping to build a better world where every person is free to move and pursue their dreams. To achieve our goals, we must build a strong, sustainable business that advances groundbreaking technology, supports people and protects our planet for generations to come.
It takes big dreams and bold action to be a leader in sustainability. Our sustainability efforts drive our business today, and our aspirations chart a path forward on the road to better.
Diverse representation, equity and inclusion are the bedrock of our people strategy. We are committed to finding, hiring, developing and retaining great talent that is inclusive of everyone in the communities that we serve.
We are committed to structural and systemic equity at every stage of the employee journey. Every employee is expected to support each other, to learn about people different than themselves and disrupt bias in everyday behaviours and decisions. Ford supports a just transition by preparing our workforce and local communities for the transition to EVs.
Ford is committed to respecting human rights, including the right to clean air and clean water, across our entire business including our entire value chain. This commitment guides our decision-making and our actions, and extends to our suppliers and business partners, from the origin of the raw materials used to make our product to the end of life of these products.
Guided by our We Are Committed to Protecting Human Rights and the Environment policy, our goal is to ensure that everything we make, or that others make for us, meets or exceeds the minimum regulatory requirements and strives to create a positive impact on people and the planet.
Ford’s leadership in electric vehicles is driving our climate change strategy. To achieve our carbon neutrality goal, we are focusing on three areas that account for approximately 95% of our carbon dioxide emissions – our vehicles, our operations, and our supply chain.
Using recycled and renewable materials helps reduce waste and lower need for new materials. We aspire to use only recycled or renewable content in vehicle plastics.
Our near-term target is to use 20% recycled or renewable plastics by 2025 in new vehicle designs for North America and Europe, including Turkey, and 10% for China. Ford’s closed loop recycling system maximises aluminium recycling in our plants, reduces the energy needed to create new primary aluminium and minimises the need for raw materials.
We are working toward sourcing 100% carbon-free electricity for our global operations by 2035 using a mix of wind, solar power, nuclear, geothermal, biomass, and hydro to power our operations.
Ford is committed to reducing water use and aspires to use freshwater only for human consumption, so that it does not detract from the local community’s ability to have access to freshwater. To further decrease our water consumption, we continue to integrate more water efficient processes and technologies in our manufacturing systems.
We are focused on managing and minimising the waste we generate to reach true zero waste to landfill across our global operations. We aim to eliminate single-use plastics from our operations by 2030.
