Our Blueprint for Sustainability

Several years ago, the term “Blueprint for Sustainability” was introduced at Ford to describe the actions we are taking to achieve outstanding fuel economy and reduce greenhouse gas emissions from our products. This year, we’re using the term more broadly to describe our sustainability strategy as a whole, in recognition of the fact that our important sustainability issues are part of a complex system that interconnects our products, plants and people and the communities in which we operate.

This section is intended to provide an overview of how our business and sustainability strategies relate, how the Company is governing and managing sustainability issues, and how these, together, drive sustainability performance.

We first discuss our business strategy and sustainability strategy and how the two are connected. We also describe how we focus our strategy and reporting on Ford’s most important sustainability issues and those of most interest to report users and our stakeholders through a structured materiality analysis, which has been used to identify our most material sustainability issues. Finally, the bulk of this section is devoted to Ford’s overall and sustainability governance, including how we address human rights and other ethical issues, how we engage with stakeholders and our management of key sustainability issues.