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GRI Index

This report is aligned with the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) G3 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines released in October 2006, at an application level of A. To locate the elements and information contained within the guidelines, use the index below. For a detailed explanation of the indicators, visit the GRI website.

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  • No, this indicator is not reported on

Additional indicators are shown in bold

Part I: Profile Disclosures

1. Strategy and Analysis

Profile Disclosure and Description Status Links Notes
1.1 Statement from the most senior decisionmaker of the organization (e.g., CEO, chair or equivalent senior position) about the relevance of sustainability to the organization and its strategy.  
1.2 Description of key impacts, risks and opportunities.  

2. Organizational Profile

Profile Disclosure and Description Status Links Notes
2.1 Name of the organization.   Please see 2013 Form 10-K page 1
2.2 Primary brands, products and/or services.   Please see 2013 Form 10-K page 2-3
2.3 Operational structure of the organization, including main divisions, operating companies, subsidiaries and joint ventures.   Please see 2013 Form 10-K page 2-3
2.4 Location of organization’s headquarters.   Please see 2013 Form 10-K page 1
2.5 Number of countries where the organization operates, and names of countries either with major operations or that are specifically relevant to the sustainability issues covered in the report.   Please see List of Operations Worldwide
2.6 Nature of ownership and legal form.  
2.7 Markets served (including geographic breakdown, sectors served and types of customers/beneficiaries). Please see 2013 Form 10-K pages 6–10. More detailed information on our products and services is reported on in our annual financial reporting, including our 10-K and Annual Report.
2.8 Scale of the reporting organization, including: number of employees; net sales (for private sector organizations) or net revenues (for public sector organizations); total capitalization broken down in terms of debt and equity (for private sector organizations); and quantity of products or services provided. Information on our scale is reported on in our annual financial reporting, including our 10-K and Annual Report.
2.9 Significant changes during the reporting period regarding size, structure, or ownership including: the location of, or changes in operations, including facility openings, closings, and expansions; and changes in the share capital structure and other capital formation, maintenance and alteration operations (for private sector organizations). Please see 2013 Form 10-K page 2 for a list of changes to our reportable segments.
2.10 Awards received in the reporting period.  

3. Report Parameters

Report Profile

Profile Disclosure and Description Status Links Notes
3.1 Reporting period (e.g., fiscal/calendar year) for information provided.  
3.2 Date of most recent previous report (if any).  
3.3 Reporting cycle (annual, biennial, etc.).  
3.4 Contact point for questions regarding the report or its contents.  

Report Scope and Boundary

Profile Disclosure and Description Status Links Notes
3.5 Process for defining report content, including: determining materiality; prioritizing topics within the report; and identifying stakeholders the organization expects to use the report.  
3.6 Boundary of the report (e.g., countries, divisions, subsidiaries, leased facilities, joint ventures, suppliers). See GRI Boundary Protocol for further guidance.  
3.7 State any specific limitations on the scope or boundary of the report (see completeness principle for explanation of scope).  
3.8 Basis for reporting on joint ventures, subsidiaries, leased facilities, outsourced operations and other entities that can significantly affect comparability from period to period and/or between organizations.  
3.9 Data measurement techniques and the bases of calculations, including assumptions and techniques underlying estimations applied to the compilation of the Indicators and other information in the report. Explain any decisions not to apply, or to substantially deviate from, the GRI Indicator Protocols.  
3.10 Explanation of the effect of any re-statements of information provided in earlier reports and the reasons for such re-statement (e.g., mergers/acquisitions, change of the base years/periods, nature of business, measurement methods).  
3.11 Significant changes from previous reporting periods in the scope, boundary or measurement methods applied in the report.  

GRI Content Index

Profile Disclosure and Description Status Links Notes
3.12 Table identifying the location of the Standard Disclosures in the report.  

Assurance

Profile Disclosure and Description Status Links Notes
3.13 Policy and current practice with regard to seeking external assurance for the report. If not included in the assurance report accompanying the sustainability report, explain the scope and basis of any external assurance provided. Also explain the relationship between the reporting organization and the assurance provider(s).  

4. Governance, Commitments, and Engagement

Governance

Profile Disclosure and Description Status Links Notes
4.1 Governance structure of the organization, including committees under the highest governance body responsible for specific tasks, such as setting strategy or organizational oversight.  
4.2 Indicate whether the Chair of the highest governance body is also an executive officer (and, if so, their function within the organization’s management and the reasons for this arrangement).  
4.3 For organizations that have a unitary board structure, state the number of members of the highest governance body that are independent and/or non-executive members.  
4.4 Mechanisms for shareholders and employees to provide recommendations or direction to the highest governance body.  
4.5 Linkage between compensation for members of the highest governance body, senior managers and executives (including departure arrangements), and the organization’s performance (including social and environmental performance).  
4.6 Processes in place for the highest governance body to ensure conflicts of interest are avoided.  
4.7 Process for determining the qualifications and expertise of the members of the highest governance body for guiding the organization’s strategy on economic, environmental, and social topics.  
4.8 Internally developed statements of mission or values, codes of conduct and principles relevant to economic, environmental and social performance and the status of their implementation. Explain the degree to which these: are applied across the organization in different regions and departments/units; and relate to internationally agreed standards.  
4.9 Procedures of the highest governance body for overseeing the organization’s identification and management of economic, environmental and social performance, including relevant risks and opportunities, and adherence or compliance with internationally agreed standards, codes of conduct and principles.  
4.10 Processes for evaluating the highest governance body’s own performance, particularly with respect to economic, environmental and social performance.  

Commitments to External Initiatives

Profile Disclosure and Description Status Links Notes
4.11 Explanation of whether and how the precautionary approach or principles is addressed by the organization. Article 15 of the Rio Principles introduced the precautionary approach. A response to 4.11 could address the organization’s approach to risk management in operational planning or the development and introduction of new products.   The precautionary principle is the idea that if the consequences of an action are unknown, but are judged to have some potential for major or irreversible negative consequences, then it is better to avoid that action. We do not formally apply the precautionary principle to decision making across all of our activities. However, it has influenced our thinking. For example, in addressing climate change as a business issue, we have employed this principle. In addition, we assess and manage environmental, safety, supply chain, operational and other risks as described throughout this report.
4.12 Externally developed economic, environmental and social charters, principles or other initiatives to which the organization subscribes or endorses.  
4.13 Memberships in associations (such as industry associations) and/or national/international advocacy organizations in which the organization: has positions in governance bodies, participates in projects or committees; provides substantive funding beyond routine membership dues; or views membership as strategic.  

Stakeholder Engagement

Profile Disclosure and Description Status Links Notes
4.14 List of stakeholder groups engaged by the organization. Examples of stakeholder groups are: communities; civil society; customers; shareholders and providers of capital; suppliers; and employees, other workers and their trade unions.  
4.15 Basis for identification and selection of stakeholders with whom to engage.  
4.16 Approaches to stakeholder engagement, including frequency of engagement by type and by stakeholder group.  
4.17 Key topics and concerns that have been raised through stakeholder engagement, and how the organization has responded to those key topics and concerns, including through its reporting.  

Part II: Disclosures on Management Approach

Economic

Aspects Status Links Notes
Economic performance  
Market presence  
Indirect economic impacts  

Environmental

Aspects Status Links Notes
Materials  
Energy  
Water  
Biodiversity  
Emissions, effluents and waste  
Products and services  
Compliance  
Transport  
Overall  

Social: Labor Practices and Decent Work

Aspects Status Links Notes
Employment  
Labor/management relations  
Occupational health and safety  
Training and education  
Diversity and equal opportunity  

Social: Human Rights

Aspects Status Links Notes
Investment and procurement practices  
Non-discrimination  
Freedom of association and collective bargaining  
Child labor  
Forced and compulsory labor  
Security practices  
Indigenous rights  

Social: Society

Aspects Status Links Notes
Community  
Corruption  
Public policy  
Anti-competitive behavior  
Compliance  

Social: Product Responsibility

Aspects Status Links Notes
Customer health and safety  
Product and service labelling  
Marketing communications  
Customer privacy  
Compliance  

Part III: Performance Indicators

Economic

Economic Performance

Profile Disclosure and Description Status Links Notes
EC1 Direct economic value generated and distributed, including revenues, operating costs, employee compensation, donations and other community investments, retained earnings and payments to capital providers and governments. Information related to operating costs is referenced as “automotive costs of goods sold” in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K. Information related to payments to providers of capital is referenced as “cash paid interest expenses” and “stockholder dividends” in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K. Ford does not report on employee compensation and does not intend to do so in the future because the information is proprietary.
EC2 Financial implications and other risks and opportunities for the organization’s activities due to climate change.  
EC3 Coverage of the organization’s defined benefit plan obligations. For our retirees, we have two principal qualified defined benefit retirement plans in the U.S. The Ford-UAW Retirement Plan covers hourly employees represented by the UAW, and the General Retirement Plan covers substantially all other Ford employees in the U.S. hired on or before December 31, 2003. We established, effective January 1, 2004, a defined contribution plan generally covering new salaried U.S. employees hired on or after that date. Other U.S. and non-U.S. subsidiaries have separate plans that generally provide similar types of benefits. We report on contributions to, and the funded status of, our pension plans in our Annual Report on Form 10-K.
EC4 Significant financial assistance received from government.   Incentives from U.S. and non-U.S. governmental entities, in the form of tax rebates or credits, grants, and loans, are recorded in the financial statements in our Annual Report on Form 10-K.  

Market Presence

Profile Disclosure and Description Status Links Notes
EC5 Range of ratios of standard entry-level wage compared to local minimum wage at significant locations of operation.    
EC6 Policy, practices, and proportion of spending on locally based suppliers at significant locations of operation. Ford uses local suppliers everywhere we operate, and in several localities in which we operate, suppliers set up operations nearby to support Ford operations. In addition, the local economic development model described is aligned with our Supplier Diversity Development initiatives. Attributes of our Supplier Diversity Development initiatives include: economic development rationale, local employment opportunities and workforce development, supplier development and a considerable financial history of purchases from minority- and women-owned companies. These initiatives operate exclusively in the U.S. and are driven in part by compliance with federal requirements. Globally, a mandated Black Economic Empowerment Program also drives supplier development and local employment for Ford in South Africa. Ford does not track the proportion of spending on locally based suppliers at significant locations of operation because local sourcing has not appeared as an important issue in our materiality analyses.
EC7 Procedures for local hiring and proportion of senior management hired from the local community at locations of significant operation. Ford doesn’t track this information, because our materiality analysis determined that the procedures used for local hiring and proportion of senior management hired from the local community is not a material issue. However, Ford’s recruiting initiatives are designed to be inclusive and hire from all segments of the diverse populations and communities in which we live and work. Opportunities for employment and advancement are available on a non-discriminatory basis – without regard to race, color, religion, age, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, handicap or veteran status. We take affirmative action in accordance with the law to have minorities and women represented appropriately throughout the workforce and to provide qualified handicapped persons, disabled veterans and veterans of the Vietnam era opportunity for employment and advancement.

Indirect Economic Impacts

Profile Disclosure and Description Status Links Notes
EC8 Development and impact of infrastructure investments and services provided primarily for public benefit through commercial, in-kind or pro bono engagement.  
EC9 Understanding and describing significant indirect economic impacts, including the extent of impacts.  

Environmental

Materials

Profile Disclosure and Description Status Links Notes
EN1 Materials used by weight or volume. In our materiality analysis, the use of sustainable materials appears as a significant issue, and we provide extensive coverage of that issue. However, accounting for the amount of every material used has not been identified as a material issue for internal or external stakeholders.
EN2 Percentage of materials used that are recycled input materials. We report on our use of recycled materials and our efforts to increase recycled content in our vehicles. However, accounting for the exact percentage of recycled materials used in all of our vehicles has not been identified as a material issue for internal or external stakeholders.

Energy

Profile Disclosure and Description Status Links Notes
EN3 Direct energy consumption by primary energy source. We do not currently aggregate energy use by source on a global basis. However, we will provide that information within the next three reporting cycles.
EN4 Indirect energy consumption by primary source. To generate our greenhouse gas emission estimates we use indirect energy conversion factors from the WRI/WBCSD Greenhouse Gas Reporting Protocol or local regulations, if required (such as by the U.S. EPA). However, estimating and aggregating the fuel sources for our indirect energy use is not considered material to our business because we actively manage both energy use and greenhouse gas emissions and do not control the sources of indirect energy we purchase.
EN5 Energy saved due to conservation and efficiency improvements.  
EN6 Initiatives to provide energy-efficient or renewable energy-based products and services, and reductions in energy requirements as a result of these initiatives.  
EN7 Initiatives to reduce indirect energy consumption and reductions achieved.  

Water

Profile Disclosure and Description Status Links Notes
EN8 Total water withdrawal by source.  
EN9 Water sources significantly affected by withdrawal of water.  
EN10 Percentage and total volume of water recycled and reused.  

Biodiversity

Profile Disclosure and Description Status Links Notes
EN11 Location and size of land owned, leased, managed in, or adjacent to, protected areas and areas of high biodiversity value outside protected areas. We believe that protecting biodiversity is an important issue, and we report on our efforts to increase and protect wildlife habitat. However, this issue was not identified as material in our analysis because Ford facilities, once established, do not routinely disturb land, wildlife or biodiversity. In siting new facilities, we conduct a due diligence process and an environmental impact assessment, both of which consider potential impacts on biodiversity.
EN12 Descriptions of significant impacts of activities, products, and services on biodiversity in protected areas and areas of high biodiversity value outside protected areas. This issue is not material, please see EN11 for more detail.
EN13 Habitats protected or restored.  
EN14 Strategies, current actions, and future plans for managing impacts on biodiversity.  
EN15 Number of IUCN Red List species and national conservation list species with habitats in areas affected by operations, by level of extinction risk.    

Emissions, Effluent, and Waste

Profile Disclosure and Description Status Links Notes
EN16 Total direct and indirect greenhouse gas emissions by weight.  
EN17 Other relevant indirect greenhouse gas emissions by weight.  
EN18 Initiatives to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and reductions achieved.  
EN19 Emissions of ozone-depleting substances by weight.  
EN20 NOx, SOx and other significant air emissions by type and weight.  
EN21 Total water discharge by quality and destination. Significant discharges to water by type are not currently tracked at the corporate level. The large majority of wastewater discharges are treated before discharge. The Company is collecting baseline data on discharges to municipal wastewater treatment plants, and this data will be reported as soon as practical, likely beginning in 2015.
EN22 Total weight of waste by type and disposal method. This is an area in which Ford is increasing its tracking and reporting. We currently report on waste by type, categorized into hazardous and nonhazardous. We also report on waste disposal to landfill. With our new GEM database, we are now tracking waste disposal methods beyond landfill (i.e., recycling, reuse, compost, incineration, other.) With this new data-tracking tool, we will be able to more report fully on this metric in the next few years.
EN23 Total number and volume of significant spills.  
EN24 Weight of transported, imported, exported, or treated waste deemed hazardous under the terms of the Basel Convention Annex I, II, III and VIII, and percentage of transported waste shipped internationally.  
EN25 Identity, size, protected status, and biodiversity value of water bodies and related habitats significantly affected by the reporting organization’s discharges of water and runoff.    

Products and Services

Profile Disclosure and Description Status Links Notes
EN26 Initiatives to mitigate environmental impacts of products and services, and extent of impact mitigation.  
EN27 Percentage of products sold and their packaging materials that are reclaimed by category. We are committed to reducing waste and increasing recycling of the waste we generate as well as to using recycled content materials in our vehicles. However, because our vehicles are sold with very limited packaging, the reclamation of our product packaging is not a material issue.

Compliance

Profile Disclosure and Description Status Links Notes
EN28 Monetary value of significant fines and total number of non-monetary sanctions for non-compliance with environmental laws and regulations.  

Transport

Profile Disclosure and Description Status Links Notes
EN29 Significant environmental impacts of transporting products and other goods and materials used for the organization’s operations, and transporting members of the workforce.  

Overall

Profile Disclosure and Description Status Links Notes
EN30 Total environmental protection expenditures and investments by type.  

Social: Labor Practices and Decent Work

Employment

Profile Disclosure and Description Status Links Notes
LA1 Total workforce by employment type, employment contract and region. The number of employees by region can be found in Ford’s Annual Report on Form 10-K.
LA2 Total number and rate of employee turnover by age group, gender and region.   Age and gender turnover is proprietary information.
LA3 Benefits provided to full-time employees that are not provided to temporary or part-time employees, by major operations.  

Labor/Management Relations

Profile Disclosure and Description Status Links Notes
LA4 Percentage of employees covered by collective bargaining agreements.  
LA5 Minimum notice period(s) regarding operational changes, including whether it is specified in collective agreements. Ford fully complies with applicable requirements for minimum notice periods regarding operational changes.

Occupational Health and Safety

Profile Disclosure and Description Status Links Notes
LA6 Percentage of total workforce represented in formal joint management–worker health and safety committees that help monitor and advise on occupational health and safety programs. Ford faces workplace health and safety challenges similar to those of many multinational manufacturing companies. These challenges include, for example, establishing and reinforcing high, common expectations for the safety of our employees worldwide. Most of our manufacturing facilities have joint union/management safety committees that guide the development and implementation of safety programs in their operations. Approximately 75 percent of the Company’s workforce globally are covered by the health and safety committees. This includes the entire manufacturing workforce and some staff organizations.
LA7 Rates of injury, occupational diseases, lost days and absenteeism, and number of work-related fatalities by region. Absenteeism is covered by collective bargaining agreements, which vary. The data are not tracked centrally. Rates of absenteeism were not identified as a material issue in our materiality analysis.
LA8 Education, training, counseling, prevention, and risk-control programs in place to assist workforce members, their families or community members regarding serious diseases.  
LA9 Health and safety topics covered in formal agreements with trade unions.  

Training and Education

Profile Disclosure and Description Status Links Notes
LA10 Average hours of training per year per employee by employee category. We provide information on employee training programs relevant to sustainability; however, our materiality analysis did not identify the average hours of training per employee as a material issue.
LA11 Programs for skills management and lifelong learning that support the continued employability of employees and assist them in managing career endings.  
LA12 Percentage of employees receiving regular performance and career development reviews.  

Diversity and Opportunity

Profile Disclosure and Description Status Links Notes
LA13 Composition of governance bodies and breakdown of employees per category according to gender, age group, minority group membership, and other indicators of diversity. Employment information by age group is proprietary information.
LA14 Ratio of basic salary of men to women by employee category.  

Social: Human Rights

Strategy and Management

Profile Disclosure and Description Status Links Notes
HR1 Percentage and total number of significant investment agreements that include human rights clauses or that have undergone human rights screening.  
HR2 Percentage of significant suppliers and contractors that have undergone screening on human rights and actions taken.  
HR3 Total hours of employee training on policies and procedures concerning aspects of human rights that are relevant to operations, including the percentage of employees trained.  

Non-Discrimination

Profile Disclosure and Description Status Links Notes
HR4 Total number of incidents of discrimination and actions taken. This is proprietary information.

Freedom of Association and Collective Bargaining

Profile Disclosure and Description Status Links Notes
HR5 Operations identified in which the right to exercise freedom of association and collective bargaining may be at significant risk, and actions taken to support these rights.  

Child Labor

Profile Disclosure and Description Status Links Notes
HR6 Operations identified as having significant risk for incidents of child labor, and measures taken to contribute to the elimination of child labor.  

Forced and Compulsory Labor

Profile Disclosure and Description Status Links Notes
HR7 Operations identified as having significant risk for incidents of forced or compulsory labor, and measurements to contribute to the elimination of forced or compulsory labor.  

Security Practices

Profile Disclosure and Description Status Links Notes
HR8 Percentage of security personnel trained in the organization’s policies or procedures concerning aspects of human rights that are relevant to operations.    

Indigenous Practices

Profile Disclosure and Description Status Links Notes
HR9 Total number of incidents of violations involving rights of indigenous people and actions taken.    

Social: Society

Community

Profile Disclosure and Description Status Links Notes
SO1 Nature, scope, and effectiveness of any programs and practices that assess and manage the impacts of operations on communities, including entering, operating and exiting.  

Corruption

Profile Disclosure and Description Status Links Notes
SO2 Percentage and total number of business units analyzed for risks related to corruption.  
SO3 Percentage of employees trained in organization’s anti-corruption policies and procedures.  
SO4 Actions taken in response to incidents of corruption.  

Public Policy

Profile Disclosure and Description Status Links Notes
SO5 Public policy positions and participation in public policy development and lobbying.  
SO6 Total value of financial and in-kind contributions to political parties, politicians and related institutions by country.  

Anti-Competitive Behavior

Profile Disclosure and Description Status Links Notes
SO7 Total number of legal actions for anti-competitive behavior, anti-trust and monopoly practices and their outcomes.   Legal actions are described in the Company’s Annual Report on the Form 10-K.

Compliance

Profile Disclosure and Description Status Links Notes
SO8 Monetary value of significant fines and total number of non-monetary sanctions for non-compliance with laws and regulations. Additional information on fines for noncompliance with laws and regulations can be found in the Company’s Annual Report on the Form 10-K on pages 58–60.

Social: Product Responsibility

Customer Health and Safety

Profile Disclosure and Description Status Links Notes
PR1 Life cycle stages in which health and safety impacts of products and services are assessed for improvement, and percentage of significant products and services categories subject to such procedures.  
PR2 Total number of incidents of non-compliance with regulations and voluntary codes concerning health and safety impacts of products and services, by type of outcomes. Additional information on fines for noncompliance with laws and regulations can be found in the Company’s Annual Report on the Form 10-K on pages 58–60.

Products and Service Labeling

Profile Disclosure and Description Status Links Notes
PR3 Type of product and service information required by procedures, and percentage of significant products and services subject to such information requirements.   Ford’s vehicles are subject to numerous labeling requirements that vary by country, region and state. We maintain compliance through our normal product requirement compliance systems. For example, in the U.S., window stickers on new vehicles provide fuel economy and crash test ratings, the percentage of vehicle content from the U.S. and Canada and major sources of foreign parts. We report on safe and efficient use of the product in vehicle manuals. In Europe, we use an Eco-label that goes beyond legal requirements and also inform customers in the driver’s manual about the impact of air conditioning on real-world fuel economy. Eco-labels also discuss substances that might produce an environmental or social impact. Ford of Europe also reports on disposal of products. In the U.S., Ford makes vehicle dismantling guides available.
PR4 Total number of incidents of non-compliance with regulations and voluntary codes concerning product and service information and labeling, by type of outcomes.    
PR5 Practices related to customer satisfaction, including results of surveys measuring customer satisfaction.  

Marketing Communications

Profile Disclosure and Description Status Links Notes
PR6 Programs for adherence to laws, standards, and voluntary codes related to marketing communications, including advertising, promotion and sponsorship.  
PR7 Total number of incidents of non-compliance with regulations and voluntary codes concerning marketing communications, including advertising, promotion and sponsorship by type of outcomes.   Information on all legal proceedings and incidents of noncompliance can be found in the Company’s Annual Report on the Form 10-K.

Customer Privacy

Profile Disclosure and Description Status Links Notes
PR8 Total number of substantiated complaints regarding breaches of customer privacy and losses of customer data.  

Compliance

Profile Disclosure and Description Status Links Notes
PR9 Monetary value of significant fines for non-compliance with laws and regulations concerning the provision and use of products and services.   Information on all legal proceedings and incidents of noncompliance can be found in the Company’s Annual Report on the Form 10-K.