Sustainability in the Automotive Industry

Paper Summary:

This paper presents a comparative table of the key
indicators and goals that four automotive companies, Mazda, Honda, Chrysler and GM, have given themselves to communicate their sustainability performance. The paper discusses these companies' goals that include recognizing global climate change and energy sustainability, respecting human rights, giving back to the communities in which they have roots and bettering the world hunger pandemic. The paper also looks at the Ford company and shows how the automotive industry is headed in the right direction to make environmental and social changes around the globe. The paper concludes that it would be a good idea for these companies to come up with a strategy that allows them to work together globally for a better, cleaner environment.

From the Paper:

"Today the automotive industry is responsible for the great challenge of manufacturing and delivering automobiles to a growing number of people around the world. Because of our global concerns with the environment today, the automobile industry is faced with the daunting task of not only supplying automobiles to a growing population, but also manufacturing automobiles that will not have a negative environmental impact on our increasingly fragile world.
"Today, we need to pay attention to a company's environmental function, including the governance structure and design, and we need to test the effectiveness of the infrastructure. More needs to be done to strengthen environmental policies, which include waste-disposal auditing, documentation and reporting practices, emergency-response procedures and community-stewardship efforts."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Blackburn, William R. (2007). The sustainability handbook: The complete guide toachieving social, economic, and environmental responsibility. EnvironmentalLaw Institute. ISBN 978-1-58576-102-9.
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• GM: 2006 Corporate responsibility report: Environmental Performance: Managementsystems. (2006). Retrieved from the Web Site General Motors on June 24, 2008.http://www.gm.com/corporate/responsibility/reports/06/600_environment/600.hml
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