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.
• Sustainability Leadership Strategies: Supporting SP members in better understanding the rapidly changing sustainability landscape and proactively preparing their organizations to address current and emerging sustainability expectations.
• 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

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.