The world’s leading automakers are not doing enough to reduce greenhouse gasemissions in line with international climate targets and are failing to address or even report on human rights issues, according to new assessments released by the World Benchmarking Alliance (WBA).
Almost no correlation could be found between a company’s relative performance on either benchmark, suggesting an alarming disconnect between actions on climate and human rights issues. Whilst we are not so surprised by these results, we find that the poor performance of companies in this crossover implies concerning lack of critical and necessary engagement on social issues and climate. Companies compartmentalizing these issues and not looking at it as an interconnected systems transformation in their ecosystem hampers progress overall.