Ford is revving its attempts to measure its suppliers' carbon footprints.
The car manufacturer has tripled its environmental programme to include 128 global companies, incorporating logistic service providers as well as deliverers of parts for vehicle production.
In 2010 Ford surveyed a snapshot of its top suppliers and found that willingness to report and monitor their greenhouse gas emissions varied widely.
But the results garnered allowed them to estimate 80 per cent of respondents are prepared to track their carbon emissions and half of those companies would be willing to disclose their findings externally.
Monique Oxender, global manager of Ford's supply chain sustainability, said: "The results clearly demonstrated that those high-impact suppliers that we had hoped were paying attention to greenhouse gas emissions, in fact were doing so.
"However, these results may not represent the broader global automotive supply base’s readiness to track, report and proactively manage carbon emissions."
The UK is the tenth worse producer of carbon emissions, creating some 519 million tonnes in 2010, although that figure was down 7.8 per cent on the previous year.
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