Sustainable Raw Materials

Our milestones

2020-2025	2025-2030
Set up and promote usage of common standardised tools and methods for sustainable sourcing management. Implement impact key projects with the aim to improve social & environmental situation related to responsible sourcing (issue to be defined: indigenous people rights, communities development, biodiversity etc).	Common audit & multi-minerals standard endorsement. Reached optimum transparency and traceability. Impact key projects successfully completed.

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37 materials assessed based on materials’ importance for industry and associated ESG risks

ABOUT OUR RESPONSIBLE SOURCING APPROACH

A coordinated approach amongst automotive companies towards raw materials is a perfect opportunity to come together and share a common platform for how to look at some of the very important aspects of sustainability.

One of the biggest obstacles in setting strategies for responsible sourcing is:

– the access to reliable current data and analysis on the environmental and social dimensions of material production and
– the complexity and lacking transparency of the automotive supply chain.

To address these challenges, Drive Sustainability has developed the Raw Materials Observatory: a standardized process to develop a toolbox of instruments to identify risks, impacts as well opportunities for collective actions. Learn more about the observatory and the instruments feeding into the observatory below.

RAW MATERIALS OBSERVATORY

The Raw Materials Observatory is a process to:

– assess the sustainability risk of the top raw materials for the automotive sector, and
– identify potentially impactful activities that Drive Sustainability partners could pursue collectively to address such risk

Collective action will complement what DS partners are doing at the company level to integrate sustainability in the sourcing of raw materials.

The Raw Materials Observatory Process:

The results of the first round of raw material assessments are presented in the Material Change report. The report examines responsible sourcing of materials in the automotive and electronics industries.

The report, Material Change, was commissioned by Drive Sustainability and the Responsible Minerals Initiative and completed by The Dragonfly Initiative (TDI).

News

16/12/2021

Automotive industry heading towards uniform ESG standards for raw materials

The Automotive industry's main actors (OEMs) are cognizant and at the same time concerned about various environmental and social risks taking place in raw materials upstream value chains covering such...

Drive Sustainability’s Raw Material Outlook Goes Live

Drive Sustainability’s Raw Material Outlook Goes Live • The new platform helps users to manage and remediate Human Rights violations and the Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) impact...

Further resources

Material Change Report

Raw Materials Outlook