Sustainability Report 2006/7 - About Our Impacts

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As a major multinational enterprise, we recognize that our activities have far-reaching impacts on environmental, social and economic systems. We are working hard to foster the positive ones and address the negative. Environmentally, we are striving to improve efficiency, cut emissions and increase recyclability. Socially, we are seeking to develop our relationships with local communities. Economically, we are trying to meet our customers' needs as well as our stakeholders' expectations.

Materiality Analysis

We have developed a screening tool to determine which sustainability issues in our value chain are the most material to Ford. We define these as issues that have significant current or potential impact on the Company, are of significant concern to stakeholders and over which Ford has a reasonable degree of control.

Our Value Chain and its Impacts

We have analyzed the most significant sustainability issues we face and the impacts they have at the various stages of our value chain. Some issues do not pertain to a particular lifecycle stage; a number of others apply across the whole value chain.