Total Score

15%

Fossil-free & Environment

5%

Human Rights & Responsible Sourcing

25%

Fossil-free & Environment

5%

general

14%

steel

0%

Aluminum

0%

batteries

6%

Human Rights & Responsible Sourcing

25%

general

38%

workers Rights

19%

Indigenous Rights

12%

minerals Rights

32%

General Motors

Although GM has made significant progress in electric vehicle production, it performs dismally on measures to reduce the climate and environmental impacts of its supply chain – scoring only 5% in this category. GM has made more progress on human rights, particularly in the area of human rights due diligence and responsible sourcing, but still performs poorly overall in this category due to its lack of measures to prevent, account for, and remedy human rights abuses in its supply chains, its lack of a policy on Indigenous rights, and (notwithstanding its public expressions of support for unionization at its Ultium battery factories) its substandard workers’ rights policies.

Ranking

8 of 18

EV sales 2022

556,337

Source: EV-Volumes

Key Takeaways

  • Marginal progress on disclosure and target setting for fossil-free and environmentally sustainable supply chain, but minimal details on steel, aluminum, and batteries specifically

  • However, has taken some positive steps more recently on its supply chains: for example, by making a purchase commitment for “low-carbon” steel with Nucor

  • Decent progress made on human rights due diligence and responsible sourcing, but needs to strengthen these policies with concrete measures to prevent, account for and remedy human rights abuses in its supply chain

  • Commitments to Indigenous Peoples’ rights, but a lack of processes to realize these commitments, and scored only 18% for its efforts to ensure respect for workers’ rights in its supply chain

Score Breakdown

Fossil-free & Environmentally Sustainable Supply Chains

Disclosure

13%

Target-setting and progress

33%

Use of supply chain levers

0%

Disclosure

0%

Target-setting and progress

0%

Use of supply chain levers

0%

Disclosure

0%

Target-setting and progress

0%

Use of supply chain levers

0%

Disclosure

0%

Target-setting and progress

0%

Use of supply chain levers

14%

* 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

83%

identify

25%

Prevent, Mitigate & Account

23%

remedy

41%

commit

92%

identify

25%

Prevent, Mitigate & Account

38%

remedy

0%

commit

60%

identify

0%

Prevent, Mitigate & Account

8%

remedy

0%

commit

67%

identify

0%

Prevent, Mitigate & Account

27%

remedy

0%

Latest Supply Chain News On General Motors

06.06.2023

ArcelorMittal to supply recycled and renewably produced steel to General Motors

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07.03.2023

Recycling and unionization in GM’s battery supply chain

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07.03.2023

Allegations of forced labour, workers’ rights violations and environmental degradation

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