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Summary
For the second year running, Geely achieved one of the largest score increases in the Leaderboard. This enabled Geely to rise in the rankings by one position: it is now the second highest scoring East Asian automaker overall, behind Hyundai Motors by just 3 percentage points.
Geely continues to be the strongest performing East Asian automaker for the fossil free and environmentally sustainable supply chains section. The company improved its score by 5 percentage points in 2025, causing the company to rise from 10th to 9th position.
In the Human Rights and Responsible Sourcing section, Geely achieved the largest score increase for a single subsection across all 18 automakers, improving its score by 24 percentage points on general human rights due diligence. This has made the company the best improver on human rights overall, jointly with Kia and Volkswagen. It has also enabled the company to move up the human rights ranking from 15th to 12th place, above most of its East Asia competitors. Nonetheless, a total score of 17% in this section shows that Geely, along with many other automakers, still has a long way to go.
Geely should therefore double down on its efforts to build cleaner and more equitable supply chains with the aim of improving its performance by an even larger margin next year.
Key Findings
- Has set an ambitious goal of requiring tier-1 key suppliers to use 100% renewable electricity by 2025. VREMT, Geely’s battery subsidiary, has also established new requirements for suppliers to use 100% green electricity for all new projects and for the production of aluminum ingots by 2025.
- One of the few companies to have set targets to increase the use of recycled steel and aluminum, setting an action route to have tier-1 suppliers use 20% recycled steel and 30% recycled aluminium by 2025. However, still lacks targets for steel, aluminum and battery decarbonization specifically.
- Has now established a human rights assessment system and discloses a good amount of information regarding its supply chain risk identification and monitoring processes and practices, including statistical data that many other companies fail to disclose.
- Has taken some steps towards strengthening responsible minerals sourcing practices, particularly in relation to conflict minerals. The company can significantly step up its efforts in this area by ensuring traceability to the point of extraction, disclosing the results of its supply chain mapping efforts and the salient transition minerals risks it has identified, and requiring mining suppliers to undergo IRMA audits.
- Strong performance overall tempered by slower to non-existent progress in other areas: did not improve its score at all in the steel subsection and only improved its score by 3 and 2 percentage points respectively for the aluminum and Indigenous Peoples’ rights subsections.
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Fossil-Free & Environmentally Sustainable Supply Chains
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Our Vision
01 — Equitably
Respecting and advancing the rights of Indigenous Peoples, workers, and local communities throughout the supply chain.
02 — Sustainably
Preserving and restoring environmental health and biodiversity across supply chains, while reducing primary resource demand through efficient resource use and increased recycled content.
03 — Fossil-free
100% electric and made with a fossil fuel-free supply chain.