Ford Motor Company, Human Rights, and Environmental Integrity

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Ford Motor Company, Human Rights, and
Environmental Integrity

• Gerald F. Cavanagh, S. J., Charles T. Fisher III
  Chair of Business Ethics, University of Detroit
  Mercy
• Mary Ann Hazen, Professor, Management, University
  of Detroit Mercy
• Brad Simmons, Director, Office of the Executive
  Chairman, President CEO, Ford Motor Company
• Dave Berdish, Manager, Social Responsibility,
  Ford Motor Company

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Ford Motor Company, Human Rights, and
Environmental Integrity

• I believe the distinction between a good
  company and a great company is this a good
  company delivers excellent product and services
  a great one delivers excellent products and
  services and strives to make the world a better
  place. Bill Ford

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Ford Motor Company, Human Rights, and
Environmental Integrity

• Human rights and working conditions
• Greenhouse gas emissions
• Material use and recycling

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Ford Human rights and working conditions

• Adopted human rights and working conditions code
  through consultation with NGO stakeholders.
• Employed code first in Ford facilities, then
  through the supply chain.
• Applied to 2000 suppliers making 130,000
  different parts at 7500 sites in 60 countries.

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Ford Greenhouse gas emissions

• Danger as ice sheets melt, sea levels rise and
  inundate low lying cities and turn arable land
  into desert.
• 12 of greenhouse gas emissions is from cars and
  trucks
• US, 5 of world population, generates 25 of
  greenhouse gas
• Governments should encourage fuel efficiency

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Ford Greenhouse gas emissions

• Fuel
• Fuel efficiency
• Choices and behavior of driver

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Ford Greenhouse gas emissions

• Environmental advocates criticize Ford and other
  automobile manufacturers for SUVs.
• Fords response is hybrid and flex fuel vehicles
• By July, 2006, 1.6 billion bill to develop
  technology
• Goal Ford Focus with 70 mpg fuel efficiency

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Ford Material use and recycling Products

• By 2015, EU will require 95 of vehicle to be
  recyclable
• 75 is metal processes in place to easily
  recycle
• Ford is developing Model U concept car using
  biomaterials

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Ford Material use and recycling Processes

• Waste reduced in plants
• Landfill gases supply energy to plant
• Paint and solvent waste converted to other uses

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Ford Material use and recycling Facilities

• Rouge Center
• Green roof
• Visitors Center
• Ford Field

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UN Principles for Responsible Investment

• Incorporate environmental, social, and governance
  principles
• 50 institutional investors pledge to follow these
  principles
• Multinational corporations can influence such
  issues

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Peace Makers Nation State vs. Multinational
Corporation