Total Score

22%

Fossil-free & Environment

17%

Human Rights & Responsible Sourcing

26%

Fossil-free & Environment

17%

general

44%

steel

9%

Aluminum

5%

batteries

17%

Human Rights & Responsible Sourcing

26%

general

49%

workers Rights

19%

Indigenous Rights

9%

minerals Rights

28%

BMW

BMW has taken some promising initial steps to eliminate fossil fuels and inequities from its supply chains and business operations, but they’re not nearly enough. Moreover, it hasn’t made sufficient progress on the EV transition and has a deplorable track record for lobbying against climate policies, receiving the second-lowest score from InfluenceMap on this issue.

Ranking

6 of 18

EV sales 2022

203,190

Source: EV-Volumes

Key Takeaways

  • Significant progress in disclosing its Scope 3 emissions and setting a Scope 3 science-based target

  • Has taken some initial steps to incentivize its suppliers to set science-based targets to reduce their emissions

  • Some encouraging initial steps have been taken in signing agreements with H2 Green Steel and Salzgitter for green steel supplies, and in investing in Lilac Solutions to reduce environmental impacts of lithium extraction

  • Few other concrete actions to clean up aluminum, steel, and battery supply chains

  • Has put in place decent human rights due diligence policies, with mechanisms to identify, mitigate, and remedy abuses in its supply chain – but these need to be stronger

  • Needs to strengthen measures for responsible mineral sourcing, workers’ rights, and, especially, to ensure the respect of the rights of Indigenous Peoples to Free, Prior and Informed Consent.

Score Breakdown

Fossil-free & Environmentally Sustainable Supply Chains

Disclosure

50%

Target-setting and progress

50%

Use of supply chain levers

38%

Disclosure

0%

Target-setting and progress

0%

Use of supply chain levers

20%

Disclosure

0%

Target-setting and progress

8%

Use of supply chain levers

4%

Disclosure

0%

Target-setting and progress

0%

Use of supply chain levers

39%

* InfluenceMap scores were applied as a multiplier to the total Fossil-free & Environmentally Sustainable Supply Chains score. See methodology for further details.

Human Rights & Responsible Sourcing

commit

100%

identify

58%

Prevent, Mitigate & Account

54%

remedy

12%

commit

67%

identify

6%

Prevent, Mitigate & Account

52%

remedy

0%

commit

40%

identify

0%

Prevent, Mitigate & Account

8%

remedy

0%

commit

50%

identify

0%

Prevent, Mitigate & Account

36%

remedy

0%

Latest Supply Chain News On BMW

21.03.2023

By 2026, more than one third of BMW’s steel will be “CO₂-reduced” + “CO₂-reduced” aluminum agreement

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07.03.2023

BMW signs agreements for low-carbon steel & aluminum in Europe, US and China

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07.03.2023

Allegations of negative environmental impacts & forced labor

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