Having started informal discussions in 2007, the partners of Drive Sustainability formalised into a group in 2011.

Always operating under strict anti-trust rules and in compliance with competition law, the group focused first on alignment of tools and on building trust amongst members. This was a crucial basis for cooperation, which resulted in an increasingly ambitious common set of activities following the 2013 establishment of the European Automotive Working Group on Supply Chain Sustainability.

Amongst the first milestones of the group was the launch of the Global Automotive Sustainability Guiding Principles (Guiding Principles) in collaboration with the Automotive Industry Action Group (AIAG), which have become the basis of all subsequent activities.

Building on these growing years, the Drive Sustainability Partnership was publicly launched in 2017. The transition reflects Drive Sustainability’s establishment as a global leadership initiative on sustainability, leveraging its common voice to promote standardization, cross-sectorial collaboration and impact focused solutions on supply chain sustainability.