General Motors issued the first report on sustainability as a new
Integrate sustainability into the company's business model adopted by
General Motors has released the first Global Sustainability Report has a new company, with renewed confidence that the best way to achieve sustainability goals is to integrate within the business model adopted by the company.
Akirson said Dan, the chairman of General Motors CEO: "sustainability contribute to the enhanced profitability, and our responsibility as a company is first to reach sustainable profitability of our business." "The profits allow us to reinvest in research and development conducive to the development of a new vision to the specifications of cars, and in the techniques of cleaner and more efficient in terms of fuel consumption, and factories, more economical sources of energy, and in improving vehicle safety, and to generate employment opportunities and stability, as well as reinvestment in the communities in which we live and work. "
The report details the progress that has been achieved at the level of sustainability in four areas:
• Design: leadership research aimed at developing advanced technologies contribute to reducing dependence on petroleum, improve fuel economy and reduce emissions.
• Industry: Promoting the benefits of operating our plants according to the official method takes into account the environment and society.
• Selling: To provide sustainable choices of cars to customers all over the world.
• Re-investment: to maintain the economic viability of the company, and make it the preferred choice for those looking for work, and improve the quality of life in their communities.
According to the report, what you need GM to grow its business in line with what the community needs - namely, energy alternatives and advanced technologies contribute to reducing dependence on petroleum, improve fuel efficiency and reduce emissions, as well as to think boldly in the concept of personal mobility-century atheist century.
He Akirson: "The success of GM depends in part on the provision of cars and services to meet these challenges while meeting customer requirements at the same time. And Chevrolet Volt is the best example. At a time when we were struggling where to stay as a company and out of the global economic recession, we can nevertheless launch One of the most environmentally friendly cars that managed to leave a large footprint in the automotive industry. "
This report sheds light on the sustainability of GM's commitment to the work environment is open and cooperative. They are committed to working with all stakeholders and policy makers, such as those who came with them to set new standards for the consumption of fuel economy in the U.S., to business partners, such as LG in South Korea, with which to work on the development of the electric car.
Include highlights of sustainability around the world during the years 2010 and 2011 as follows:
• For products on the estimate of the Moasftha technologically advanced and their effectiveness in fuel consumption and general specifications related to sustainability.
• exceeded the target for a global manufacturing operations to contract Manmladtha daily at the sites by half until the end of the year 2010 through recycling or re-used or converted into energy. Even today, 81 managed manufacturing facility to achieve this goal.
• recycling 92 percent of waste from all the world's centers combined.
• Re-use of oil-contaminated radius arms of which are used in cleaning the oil spill in the world 2010 and transferred to the reflectors to the air in the Chevrolet Volt.
• Training of eight thousand and 700 students in the United States on the issue of water quality and how they impact on the daily activities of local communities to rain.
• Access to the title of "a leader in clean technology innovation for the year 2010" in the index of development of clean energy innovations to fuel cells, hybrid electric vehicles, solar energy, and improving technologies.
• expand the initiative to greening the supply channels to include new suppliers, and additional joint ventures in China.
• progress in water conservation and use of renewable energy and the preservation of wildlife settlements around the world.
He said Akirson: "We have made the company a long way in a short time, but we know that this is only the beginning. We must work better, and we will do so. Venqth transition to new GM is the following: promotion of profitable growth that will allow us to improve the products that we make, and how to have our manufacturing, and the communities in which we make it. "
And GM announced in the report on its commitment to a new set of environmental management objectives for the next decade, namely:
1. Reduce the energy density in the factories by 20 percent.
2. Promote the use of 125 megawatts of renewable energy by 2020.
3. Reducing carbon intensity in the factories by 20 percent.
4. Reduce the weight of emissions of organic compounds are vaporized in the centers of the paint by 10 percent per car.
5. Protect water quality and reduce the intensity of water use by 15 percent.
6. Reduce the total trash in the factories by 10 percent.
7. Promote the facilities free of trash at the site, with work to reach the number of manufacturing centers and manufacturing centers is free of such trash to 100 and 25 respectively.
8. Promote and participate in awareness campaigns about the environment and energy through the completion of each activity Awareness manufacturing center on a yearly basis.
9. Obtain a certificate of protection of wild life settlements (or equivalent) at each manufacturing center for General Motors, whenever possible, until the year 2020.
, The report includes an interview with GM vice president for sustainability and global regulatory affairs, Mike Robinson, on the challenges of the automotive industry, and climate change, and the possibility of providing advanced technology at a reasonable cost, and its regulatory environment.
