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General Motors Corporation (GM)

General Motors Corporation (GM) is a publicly listed company headquartered in Detroit, USA. In 2020, it had USD 122 billion group revenue and produced 6,205 thousand light duty vehicles. GM has a fairly detailed plan to scale low-carbon vehicle sales, but this is not sufficiently ambitious enough for a 1.5°C pathway.

Ranking position
#7 /30
Total score
47.6 /100
Performance score
9.0 /20
Narrative Score
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Trend Score
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Targets

#1 2.1 /3 #2

Material Investment

#1 0.3 /0.4 #9

Intangible Investment

#1 0.0 /2.4 #7

Sold product performance

#1 3.4 /7 #10

Management

#1 1.4 /2.2 #8

Supplier Engagement

#1 0.9 /1.2 #2

Client Engagement

#1 0.5 /0.8 #4

Policy Engagement

#1 0.2 /1.2 #18

Business Model

#1 0.2 /1.8 #18
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Leading practices

Risks and opportunities

Trend

GM receives a trend score of =. If the company were reassessed in the near future, its score would likely remain the same. GM is projected to exceed its scope 3 carbon budget for 2020 and 2025 by 20.8%. It is likely to continue to moderately reduce its scope 3 emissions intensity, driven by increased electric vehicle sales. However, GM’s ambition of 1 million EV sales by 2025 is not as an ambitious a scale up as is required by the company’s 1.5°C pathway. The company is not taking action to develop low-carbon business activities other than EV manufacturing, beyond limited development of EV charging in the USA.

Progress towards the Paris Agreement

Just Transition Assessment

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  1. 2019
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More about the company

Headquarters
Detroit, United States of America
Revenue (2020)
USD 122 billion
Ownership
Publicly listed
Number of vehicles sold (2020)
6,807,303
Website
https://www.gm.com/

This company is part of the SDG2000, the 2,000 most influential companies

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