Creating a better environment
Beyond our operations
Our commitment
We are committed to understanding the environmental impacts at each stage of our value chain including from raw material extraction where water scarcity and dependency on nature are key upstream value chain issues.
Our goal
Our goal is to safeguard biodiversity and water in our operations and beyond.
Read how we are taking action to assess our impacts on nature and water in our upstream value chain.
Nature
We are members of the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) Forum, a platform for organisations to signal their support, contribute to the further development of guidance, and to learn from others through pilot testing and focus groups. The Forum helps the Company access best practice on protecting the environment, improve risk management, and meeting new reporting standards.
To identify our most material dependencies and impacts on nature, we have started assessing our suppliers at a commodity level using the publicly available ENCORE (Exploring Natural Capital Opportunities, Risks, and Exposure) tool. This led to the prioritisation of aluminium, steel and rubber as the highest impact areas. Starting with aluminium as a pilot, we are working with our Tier 1 suppliers to map the specific geographic locations of the upstream supply chain back to raw mineral extraction to enable us to evaluate their specific interactions with nature and associated risks.
Water
We concentrate our focus on water resource management at our operational sites but remain aware of the wider impacts of our extended value chain and in particular upstream activities on global water resources.
This issue was highlighted when mapping upstream commodities using the CDP Water Impact Index, which ranks aluminium and steel, both key commodities for Aston Martin, as having a very high dependency on high volumes of freshwater withdrawal or consumption and water pollution potential.
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