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Report Home | Contact | GRI Index | Site Map | Glossary & Key Terms This report is structured according to our Business Principles, which you can access using the colored tabs above. This report is aligned with the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) G3 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines released in October 2006, at an application level of A+. See the GRI Index ● Print this report "Welcome to our 2006/7 Sustainability Report. These are challenging times, not only for our Company but for our planet and its inhabitants. The markets for our products are changing rapidly, and there is fierce competition everywhere we operate. Collectively, we face daunting global sustainability ● Download resources challenges, including climate change, depletion of natural resources, poverty, population growth, urbanization and congestion." ● Send feedback Alan Mulally, President and CEO Read the full letter from Bill Ford, Executive Chairman Alan Mulally and Bill Ford Fast track to data: ● Products and Customers ● Vehicle Safety ● Environment ● Quality of Relationships ● Community ● Financial Health ● Workplace Safety Overview Our industry, the business environment and societal expectations continue to evolve, and so does our reporting. Learn about our Company and our vision for sustainability. Our Impacts As a major multinational enterprise, our activities have far-reaching impacts on environmental, social and economic systems. Read about our analysis and prioritization of these issues and impacts. Voices Nine people from inside and outside Ford provide their perspectives on key challenges facing our industry and how Ford is responding, including “new mobility,” good practices in the supply chain and the auto industry’s economic impact. This report was published in June 2007. See also previous reports. 2006 Data overview Report Home | Contact | GRI Index | Site Map | Glossary & Key Terms Contact Preparing this report is a valuable opportunity for us to assess and improve upon our economic, environmental and social progress and performance. To continue to do so, we need your feedback. We welcome your opinion and perspective through several means: Write or call: Krista Gullo Ford Motor Company One American Road Dearborn, MI 48126 U.S.A. +1 (313) 206-2654 E-mail us at: [email protected] For customer service issues or complaints please call 800-392-3673 in the US, 1-800-565-3673(FORD) in Canada or go to www.customersaskford.com. Report Home | Contact | GRI Index | Site Map | Glossary & Key Terms 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 ● External Web Sites within the guidelines use the index below. For a detailed explanation of the indicators, visit the GRI Web ❍ GRI site. Yes, this indicator is reported on This indicator is partially reported on No, this indicator is not reported on Additional indicators are shown in bold Click on the icon to see notes related to that indicator, including explanations of core elements and indicators not covered in the report. Go straight to a section of the GRI Index on this page: ● 1. Strategy and Analysis ● 2. Organizational Profile ● 3. Report Parameters ● 4. Governance, Commitments, and Engagement ● 5. Management Approach and Performance Indicators: ❍ Economic ❍ Environmental ❍ Social: Labor Practices and Decent Work ❍ Social: Human Rights ❍ Social: Society ❍ Social: Product Responsibility 1. Strategy and Analysis Element Status Report links Notes 1.1 Statement from the most senior decisionmaker of the organization (e.g., CEO, chair ● Overview Letter or equivalent senior position) about the relevance of sustainability to the organization and its strategy. 1.2 Description of key impacts, risks and opportunities. ● Our Impacts ● Climate Change Risks and Opportunities top 2. Organizational Profile Element Status Report links Notes 2.1 Name of the organization. ● Corporate Profile 2.2 Primary brands, products and/or services. ● Corporate Profile 2.3 Operational structure of the organization, including main divisions, operating ● Corporate Profile companies, subsidiaries and joint ventures. 2.4 Location of organization's headquarters. ● Corporate Profile 2.5 Number of countries where the organization operates, and names of countries either ● Corporate Profile with major operations or that are specifically relevant to the sustainability issues covered in the report. 2.6 Nature of ownership and legal form. ● Corporate Profile 2.7 Markets served (including geographic breakdown, sectors served and types of ● Responding to Changing Markets customers/beneficiaries). ● Financial Context ● Focusing on Customers 2.8 Scale of the reporting organization, including: number of employees; net sales (for ● Corporate Profile private sector organizations) or net revenues (for public sector organizations); total ● Products and Customers Data capitalization broken down in terms of debt and equity (for private sector organizations); and quantity of products or services provided. 2.9 Significant changes during the reporting period regarding size, structure, or ● Restructuring the Company ownership including: the location of, or changes in operations, including facility ● 2006 Performance: Accelerated Way Forward Plan openings, closings, and expansions; and changes in the share capital structure and other capital formation, maintenance and alteration operations (for private sector organizations). 2.10 Awards received in the reporting period. ● Quality of Relationships – Awards ● Operational Energy Use ● Ford Motor China's Corporate Social Responsibility Programs Recognized top 3. Report Parameters Report Profile Element Status Report links Notes 3.1 Reporting period (e.g., fiscal/calendar year) for information provided. ● Overview 3.2 Date of most recent previous report (if any). ● Overview 3.3 Reporting cycle (annual, biennial, etc.). ● Overview 3.4 Contact point for questions regarding the report or its contents. ● Contact Report Scope and Boundary Element Status Report links Notes 3.5 Process for defining report content, including: determining materiality; prioritizing ● Materiality Analysis topics within the report; and identifying stakeholders the organization expects to use ● Quality of Relationships Context the report. 3.6 Boundary of the report (e.g., countries, divisions, subsidiaries, leased facilities, joint ● Overview ventures, suppliers). See GRI Boundary Protocol for further guidance. 3.7 State any specific limitations on the scope or boundary of the report. ● Overview 3.8 Basis for reporting on joint ventures, subsidiaries, leased facilities, outsourced ● Overview 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 ● Data Overview and techniques underlying estimations applied to the compilation of the Indicators ● Products and Customers Data and other information in the report. ● Environment Data ● Community Data ● Workplace Safety Data ● Vehicle Safety Data ● Quality of Relationships Data ● Financial Health Data 3.10 Explanation of the effect of any re-statements of information provided in earlier ● Data Overview reports and the reasons for such re-statement (e.g., mergers/acquisitions, change of ● Products and Customers Data the base years/periods, nature of business, measurement methods). ● Environment Data ● Community Data ● Workplace Safety Data ● Vehicle Safety Data ● Quality of Relationships Data ● Financial Health Data 3.11 Significant changes from previous reporting periods in the scope, boundary or ● Overview measurement methods applied in the report. GRI Content Index Element Status Report links Notes 3.12 Table identifying the location of the Standard Disclosures in the report. ● GRI Index Assurance Element Status Report links Notes 3.13 Policy and current practice with regarding to seeking external assurance for the ● Assurance report. If not included in the assurance report accompanying the sustainability report, ● Ceres Stakeholder Team explain the scope and basis of any external assurance provided. Also explain the relationship between the reporting organization and the assurance provider(s). top 4. Governance, Commitments, and Engagement Governance Element Status Report links Notes 4.1 Governance structure of the organization, including committees under the highest ● Corporate Governance governance body responsible for specific tasks, such as setting strategy or ● Sustainability Governance and Integration organizational oversight. 4.2 Indicate whether the Chair of the highest governance body is also an executive ● Corporate Governance 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 ● Corporate Governance of the highest governance body that are independent and/or non-executive members. 4.4 Mechanisms for shareholders and employees to provide recommendations or ● Stakeholder Engagement direction to the highest governance body. 4.5 Linkage between compensation for members of the highest governance body, senior Systematic Leadership 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