Partnerships and Collaboration

Addressing the linked issues of climate change and energy security requires an integrated approach – a partnership of all stakeholders, including the automotive industry, the fuel industry, other industries and enterprises, government and consumers. It will also require the best thinking from all of these sectors.

Ford is involved in numerous partnerships and alliances with universities, coalitions, nongovernmental organizations and other companies to improve our understanding of climate change. For example, Ford is:

• A member of the United States Climate Action Partnership (USCAP), an alliance of major businesses and leading climate and environmental groups that have come together to develop an economy-wide, market-driven approach to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, as discussed in the U.S. Climate Change Legislation section
• Working closely with BP to explore vehicle technologies and low-carbon fuel technologies
• A founding member of the Carbon Mitigation Initiative at Princeton University to study the fundamental scientific, environmental and technical issues related to carbon management
• A charter member of the Sustainable Transportation Energy Pathways Program at the University of California-Davis Institute of Transportation Studies, which aims to compare the societal and technical benefits of alternative sustainable fuel pathways
• A member of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Climate Change

Our participation in these and other partnerships helps us to formulate improved strategies for products and policies that will in turn help to address climate change and energy security. The following are links to the above organizations and others with which we cooperate on climate change issues:

• 25 x '25 (Energy Futures Coalition)
• BP
• Center for Clean Air Policy (CCAP) Climate Policy Initiative
• Diesel Technology Forum (DTF)
• Governors' Ethanol Coalition (GEC)
• Harvard University, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
• MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change
• National Ethanol Vehicle Coalition (NEVC)
• Princeton Carbon Mitigation Initiative (CMI)
• Resources For the Future (RFF) U.S. Climate Policy Forum
• United States Climate Action Partnership (USCAP)
• University of California-Davis Institute of Transportation Studies Sustainable Transportation Energy Pathways Program
• Worldwide Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD)
• World Resources Institute (WRI)