Climate Change Data

General Motors Company

Climate Impact & Sustainability Data (2019, 2020, 2021, 2023)

Reporting Period: 2019

Environmental Metrics

ESG Focus Areas

  • STEM education
  • Vehicle and road safety
  • Community development

Social Achievements

  • Partnered with 349 U.S.-based nonprofits impacting an estimated 1.9 million individuals.
  • GM/ISTE Artificial Intelligence professional development course reached 516 educators across the U.S. and 15 other countries.
  • Chevrolet's Not Safe for Wheels campaign exceeded its goal by 224%, reaching over 134,000 young people.
  • Supported Financial Opportunity Centers in rural Midwest communities, impacting an estimated 1,000 individuals.
  • SER – Jobs for Progress educated 250 minority women in entrepreneurship skills.
  • Partnered with KaBOOM! to build playscapes in Detroit, Flint, and Phoenix.
  • 18,880 GM employees volunteered 181,258 hours at 541 nonprofits.
  • GM Student Corps program worked with more than 1,340 high school and college students.

Climate Goals & Targets

Supply Chain Management

Climate-Related Risks & Opportunities

Reporting Period: 2020

Environmental Metrics

ESG Focus Areas

  • STEM Education
  • Vehicle & Road Safety
  • Community Development

Social Achievements

  • Donated over $35 million in funding to 357 U.S.-based nonprofits, impacting an estimated 5 million individuals.
  • Provided in-kind assets to nonprofits valued at more than $9.8 million.
  • teamGM Cares engaged 15,000+ employees who volunteered 115,000+ hours at nearly 300 nonprofits around the world.
  • Manufactured and delivered 8.7 million masks and other medical protective gear across the U.S.
  • Committed $3.6 million to emergency response efforts around food and housing assistance and education.
  • GM Brazil led a task force to repair 2,000 hospital ventilators and donated over 560,000 masks.
  • GM China donated $715,000 to the Chinese Red Cross Foundation.
  • GM Canada and its employees donated more than $1.6 million to nonprofits.

Climate Goals & Targets

Environmental Challenges

  • Increase in traffic fatalities despite reduced vehicle miles traveled due to risky driving behaviors.
Mitigation Strategies
  • Continued investment in programs to increase seat belt usage, decrease impaired and distracted driving.

Supply Chain Management

Climate-Related Risks & Opportunities

Reporting Period: 2021

Environmental Metrics

ESG Focus Areas

  • Climate Change

Climate Goals & Targets

Long-term Goals:
  • Achieve carbon neutrality in global products and operations by 2040

Environmental Challenges

  • Lack of holistic approaches to climate action
  • Centralized, slow-to-change systems
  • Imbalanced attention to resource distribution and discovery across subfields
Mitigation Strategies
  • Reward building the climate action community
  • Utilize more decentralized impact methods
  • Fund more innovations in climate fields where social entrepreneurship is underrepresented

Supply Chain Management

Climate-Related Risks & Opportunities

Reporting Period: 2023

Environmental Metrics

Total Carbon Emissions:347,272,911 tCO2e/year (Scope 3)
Scope 1 Emissions:1,304,570 tCO2e/year
Scope 2 Emissions:3,751,323 tCO2e/year (Location-Based and Market-Based combined)
Scope 3 Emissions:347,272,911 tCO2e/year
Renewable Energy Share:39% of total energy use
Total Energy Consumption:11,643,527 MWh/year
Water Consumption:17,723,911 m3/year
Waste Generated:1,277,702 tons/year
Carbon Intensity:Global Well-to-Wheel CO2e Emissions Intensity: 294 gCO2e/km

ESG Focus Areas

  • Climate Change
  • Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
  • Supply Chain
  • Vehicle Safety
  • Community Engagement
  • Human Rights
  • Business Ethics

Environmental Achievements

  • Reduced Scope 1 and 2 Location-Based (energy) GHG emissions by 3.78% from 2022 to 2023
  • Increased renewable electricity share to 39% of global electricity use in 2023
  • Achieved 94.6% Zero Waste Performance in 2023 (compared to 2018 baseline)

Social Achievements

  • Increased percentage of women in top management positions to 35.7% in 2023
  • Improved Global Workplace Safety with a Lost Workday Case Rate of 0.35 in 2023
  • Launched Speak Up For Safety program, receiving 42,583 submissions since inception

Governance Achievements

  • 100% of active salaried employees received regular performance and career development reviews
  • 100% CRT Completion Rate
  • 100% Code of Conduct Certification Program Completion Rate

Climate Goals & Targets

Long-term Goals:
  • Eliminate tailpipe emissions from new U.S. light-duty vehicles by 2035
  • Carbon neutral operations and products by 2040
Medium-term Goals:
  • Reduce Scope 1 and 2 GHG emissions by 72% by 2035 (against 2018 baseline)
  • Reduce Scope 3 GHG emissions from use of sold products by 51% per vehicle kilometer by 2035 (against 2018 baseline)
  • 100% returnable, viably recyclable, reusable or compostable packaging by 2030
  • Sourcing 100% renewable electricity globally by 2035
Short-term Goals:
  • Reduce water intensity by 35% by 2035 (against 2010 baseline)
  • Diverting more than 90% of operational waste from landfills by 2025 (against 2018 baseline)
  • Sourcing 100% renewable electricity to power U.S. sites by 2025

Environmental Challenges

  • Supply chain disruptions
  • Climate-related risks (not explicitly stated but implied through focus on emissions reduction)
Mitigation Strategies
  • Developing alternative sourcing strategies (implied)
  • Implementing emissions mitigation plan
  • Investing in renewable energy

Supply Chain Management

Supplier Audits: Strategic suppliers completing both CDP and EcoVadis annually.

Responsible Procurement
  • GM Supplier Code of Conduct
  • Responsible Materials Program
  • Conflict Mineral Program
  • Participation in Responsible Business Alliance and Responsible Minerals Initiative

Climate-Related Risks & Opportunities

Physical Risks
  • Not disclosed
Transition Risks
  • Not disclosed
Opportunities
  • Development of energy-efficient products and EVs

Reporting Standards

Frameworks Used: GRI Standards (2021), SASB, TCFD, UNGC (implied)

Certifications: Null

Third-party Assurance: Apex Companies, LLC

UN Sustainable Development Goals

  • 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15, 16, 17

The report details how various initiatives contribute to each of the 17 UN SDGs.

Sustainable Products & Innovation

  • Electric vehicles

Awards & Recognition

  • Not disclosed