18 Leading Automotive Companies Widen their Common Strategy
for a Circular and Sustainable Automotive Value Chain
Our mission: Enhance sustainability throughout the automotive industry
by leveraging a common voice and by engaging with suppliers, stakeholders and related sectors on impactful activities
DRIVE SUSTAINABILITY STRATEGY
Our Ambitions

The Enabler to Achieving our Ambitions:
Sustainable supply chains enable us to reach our long-term strategy ambitions.
It is essential that we collaborate to enhance supplier sustainability and to implement the activities that bring us closer to reaching our ambitions.
The automotive supply chain has a naturally complex structure with interwoven relationships.
Our approach is mindful of these complexities and our strategy activities have been planned accordingly.
Sustainable Raw Materials
Source raw materials sustainably
Workforce Wellbeing
Aim to ensure employees in our supply chain are treated well and empowered
Carbon Neutrality
Strive towards a carbon neutral supply chain
Circular Value Chain
Promote circular use of resources in our value chains
OUR ACTION PLAN
Activities & Milestones to Support the Achievement of our Strategy
2020-2025 | 2025-2030 | ||
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Sustainable supply chains |
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Sustainable raw materials |
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Workforce wellbeing |
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Carbon neutrality |
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Circular Value Chain |
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Our ambition carbon neutrality means that we strive towards zero emissions, but may have to take any currently available measures to have achieve net zero emission, while contributing to the research and development of new solutions. For your reference you can download our DS Strategy Definitions.
Our progress so far
107,061
Over 107,000 suppliers engaged in sustainability assessment activities in more than 126 countries
3,000
Over 3,000 suppliers engaged in capacity building activities
37
37 materials assessed based on materials’ importance for industry and associated ESG risks
Resources
Disclaimer
The Drive Sustainability strategy represents the common ambition of the partnership. The individual Drive Sustainability members may have their own strategies or may be in the process of defining one.
The strategy represent the partnership’s long-term vision and ambitions and are not limited to a specific time frame. The strategy action plan specifies activities and an intended time frame that contribute to achieving the group’s vision and ambitions.
We will periodically review our strategy and planned actions/ activities to make sure they contribute to achieving our ambitions, are in line with international and national targets and meet stakeholder expectations.