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, governments and consumers. It will also require the best collective thinking and collaboration 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 charter member of the Sustainable Transportation Energy Pathways Program at the Institute of Transportation Studies at the University of California at Davis. The Institute aims to compare the societal and technical benefits of alternative sustainable fuel pathways.
• Industry co-chair of the U.S. DRIVE Cradle-to-Grave life cycle assessment of energy use, carbon dioxide (CO₂) and greenhouse gas emissions.

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-mentioned organizations and others with which we cooperate on climate change issues:

• 25x’25 (Energy Future Coalition)
• BP
• Center for Clean Air Policy’s Climate Policy Initiative
• Clean Fuels Development Coalition
• Diesel Technology Forum
• Governors’ Biofuels Coalition
• Harvard University, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
• Growth Energy
• My Energi Lifestyle
• University of California at Davis, Institute of Transportation Studies, Sustainable Transportation Energy Pathways Program
• U.S. DRIVE
• World Business Council for Sustainable Development
• World Resources Institute
• World Economic Forum