SP Focus Issues
Since 2002, the Suppliers Partnership for the Environment (SP) has provided a leadership forum for global vehicle manufacturers and their suppliers to work together toward a shared vision of an automotive industry with positive environmental impact. SP’s members work together toward through member-driven working groups to facilitate best practice sharing and support increased collaboration related to industry environmental sustainability needs and priorities.
Core Pillars of SP’s Strategy (2025 – 2030)
Aspirations: Net-Zero Carbon, Net-Zero Waste, In Harmony with Nature
2025 – 2030 SP Impact Vision: SP strives to be a leading global forum uniting vehicle manufacturers and suppliers to create structured pathways for measuring and advancing automotive industry sustainability progress, centered around three core pillars: Carbon Neutrality, Circular Economy and, Nature and Water Stewardship.
- Carbon Neutrality: Working toward long-term goals of achieving carbon neutrality by advancing carbon reporting and reduction practices across the automotive value chain.
- Circular Economy: Working toward a circular materials economy by promoting collaboration to incorporate sustainable practices and materials in the production and content of vehicles.
- Nature & Water Stewardship: Working toward a nature-positive future by supporting industry goals to operate in harmony with the environment, preserve biodiversity, and restore natural ecosystems.
Each pillar represents a long-term industry ambition where SP is uniquely positioned to serve as a convening force and drive progress, built step by step from a solid foundation of industry-developed frameworks, methodologies, and collaborative initiatives. While SP actively monitors emerging trends and evolves its efforts in context of the changing landscape, our long-term vision remains steadfast.
SP Work Groups
SP maintains a number of member-driven working groups and initiatives to facilitate best practice sharing and advance collaboration related to established focus issues. Below is a summary of some of our current work group activities:
- Carbon Neutrality: Supporting industry dialogue and action on common definitions, tools, and resources for measuring and advancing carbon reduction efforts across the value chain on the path toward carbon neutrality.
- Nature Based Solutions: Identifying, developing and advancing nature-based solutions as effective tools to improve climate resilience and pollution prevention, as well as provide human well-being and biodiversity benefits.
- Responsible Batteries: Providing a forum for SP members to share information on end of life issues and opportunities relating to advanced EV batteries and for members to work together to advance responsible management of such technologies through their lifecycle.
- Sustainable Materials: Working to move the automotive industry towards a circular materials economy by promoting collaboration amongst automotive manufacturers and suppliers to incorporate sustainable practices, processes, and materials in the production and content of vehicles.
- Sustainable Packaging: Working to identify voluntary opportunities and best practices to minimize packaging waste and promote consideration of sustainable packaging materials.
- Technology & Innovation: Providing a structured process to assist companies of all sizes within the SP network to share innovative ideas and solutions that can address our member companies’ significant environmental sustainability challenges and needs.
- Transportation & Logistics Decarbonization: Providing a forum to facilitate dialogue across the automotive value chain to identify and develop common approaches, tools, and resources to measure, report and accelerate decarbonization efforts within transportation and logistics.
- Water Stewardship: Developing a sector-wide water stewardship program that is centered on a decision matrix and action plan that helps member organizations achieve excellence in their water stewardship performance.
Special Projects
- SP Impact Steering Committee: identifying opportunities to drive efficiency and demonstrate leadership across the global automotive value chain through identification of streamlined, action-oriented industry sustainability reporting and supplier sustainability engagement processes.
- Transform Auto: The Transform: Auto program is designed to help suppliers reduce indirect emissions from energy consumption, known as Scope 2 emissions.
- Alianza Automotriz Para La Sustentabilidad Ambiental (AASA) is an initiative of SP designed to provide automobile original equipment manufacturers and their suppliers the opportunity to improve their environmental performance and competitiveness, while providing value throughout the automobile supply chain in Mexico.
Please feel free to contact us to learn more about overall SP work group efforts and how to get involved as a member. Members may also use our open idea and project proposal submission process to suggest ideas for future SP activities.
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SP welcomes companies in the automotive value chain to join us in our mission to advance projects with positive environmental, economic and community impact.