Global Reporting Initiative

Volvo Car Corporation (Volvo Cars) has been reporting on environmental, health and safety aspects of its products and production since the year 2000. In 2003, we produced our first Sustainability Report in line with the International reporting guidelines from the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI). By applying and living up to GRI's International gudeilines for sustainability reporting, we aim to ensure transparent reporting based on content which is relevant to our stakeholders. While this results in a somewhat lenghty GRI Report, supplementing the printed Corporate Report with Sustainability, we believe this level of detail allows our stakeholders to more fully understand and evaluate our sustainability goals and progress.

Download Volvo Cars 2011 GRI Report

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PROFILE

1. Strategy & Analysis

Indicator	Description	Coverage
1.1	Statement from the most senior-decision maker of the organisation.
1.2	Descriptions of key impacts, risks and opportunities.

2. Organisational profile

Indicator	Description	Coverage
2.1	Name of the organisation.
2.2	Primary brands, products and/or services.
2.3	Operational structure of the organisation.
2.4	Location of organisation’s headquarters.
2.5	Number of countries where the organisation operates.
2.6	Nature of ownership and legal form.
2.7	Markets served.
2.8	Scale of the reporting organisation.
2.9	Significant changes during the reporting period.
2.10	Awards received in the reporting period.

3. Report Parameters

4. Governance, Commitments, and Engagement

Indicator	Description	Coverage
4.1	Governance structure of the organisation.
4.2	Indicate whether the Chair of the highest governance body is also an executive officer.
4.3	Number of members of the highest governance body that are independent and/or non-executive members.
4.4	Mechanisms by which shareholders and employees may make recommendations or suggest direction to the highest governance body.
4.5	Linkage between compensation for members of the highest governance body, senior managers, and executives, and the organisation’s performance.
4.6	Processes in place for the highest governance body to ensure conflicts of interest are avoided.
4.7	Process for determining the qualifications and expertise of the members of the highest governance body for guiding the organisation’s strategy on economic, environmental, and social topics.
4.8	Internally developed statements of mission or values, codes of conduct, and principles relevant to economic, environmental, and social performance.
4.9	Procedures of the highest governance body for overseeing the organisation’s identification and management of economic, environmental, and social performance.
4.10	Processes for evaluating the highest governance body’s own performance, particularly with respect to economic, environmental, and social performance.
4.11	Explanation of whether and how the precautionary approach or principle is addressed by the organisation.
4.12	Externally developed economic, environmental, and social charters, principles, or other initiatives to which the organisation subscribes or endorses.
4.13	Memberships in associations.
4.14	List of stakeholder groups engaged by the organisation.
4.15	Basis for identification and selection of stakeholders with whom to engage.
4.16	Approaches to stakeholder engagement.
4.17	Key topics and concerns that have been raised through stakeholder engagement, and how the organisation has responded to those key topics and concerns.

MANAGEMENT APPROACH

Indicator	Description	Coverage
General sustainability and economics	Management Approach with reference to economic performance, market presence and indirect economic impacts.
Environmental	Management Approach with reference to materials, energy, water, biodiversity, emissions, effluents and waste, products and services, and compliance.
Labour practices and decent working conditions	Management Approach with reference to employment, labour/management relations, occupational health and safety, training and education, and diversity and equal opportunity.
Human rights	Management Approach with reference to investment and procurement practices, nondiscrimination, freedom of association and collective bargaining, abolition of child labour, prevention of forced and compulsory labour, complaints and grievance practices, security practices and indigenous rights.
Society	Management Approach with reference to community, corruption, public policy, anti-competitive behaviour and compliance.
Product responsibility	Management Approach with reference to customer health and safety, product and service labelling, marketing communications, customer privacy and compliance.

PERFORMANCE INDICATORS

Economic

Category	Indicator	Description	Coverage
Economic Performance	EC1	Direct economic value generated and distributed.
Economic Performance	EC2	Financial implications and other risks and opportunities for the organisation’s activities due to climate change.

Environment

Category	Indicator	Description	Coverage
Materials	EN1	Materials used by weight or volume.
Materials	EN2	Percentage of materials used that are recycled input materials.
Energy	EN3	Direct energy consumption by primary energy source.
Energy	EN4	Indirect energy consumption by primary source.
Water	EN8	Total water withdrawal by source.
Biodiversity	EN11	Location and size of land owned, leased, managed in, or adjacent to, protected areas and areas of high biodiversity value outside protected areas.
Emissions, effluents, and waste	EN16	Total direct and indirect greenhouse gas emissions by weight.
	EN19	Emissions of ozone-depleting substances by weight
	EN20	NOx, SOx, and other significant air emissions by type and weight.
	EN22	Total weight of waste by type and disposal method.
	EN23	Total number and volume of significant spills.
Products and Services	EN26	Initiatives to mitigate environmental impact of products and services.
Products and Services	EN27	Percentage of products sold and their packaging materials that are reclaimed by category.
Monetary Fines	EN28	Monetary value of significant fines and total number of non-monetary sanctions for non-compliance with environmental laws and regulations.

Labour Practices and Decent Work

Category	Indicator	Description	Coverage
Employment	LA1	Total workforce by employment type, employment contract, and region.
Employment	LA2	Total number and rate of employee turnover by age group, gender, and region.
Occupational health and safety	LA7	Rates of injury, occupational diseases, lost days, and absenteeism, and total number of work-related fatalities by region.
Occupational health and safety	LA8	Education, training, counselling, prevention, and risk-control programmes in place to assist workforce members, their families, or community members regarding serious diseases.
Training	LA10	Average hours of training per year per employee by employee category.
Diversity and equal opportunity	LA13	Composition of governance bodies and breakdown of employees per category according to gender and age group.
Diversity and equal opportunity	LA14	Ratio of basic salary of men to women by employee category.

Human Rights

Category	Indicator	Description	Coverage
Human Rights	HR2	Percentage of significant suppliers and contractors that have undergone screening on human rights and actions taken.
	HR3	Total hours of employee training on policies and procedures concerning aspects of human rights.
	HR4	Total number of incidents of discrimination and actions taken.

Society

Category	Indicator	Description	Coverage
Anti-corruption	SO3	Percentage of employees trained in organisation’s anti-corruption policies and procedures.
	SO4	Actions taken in response to incidents of corruption.
	SO5	Public policy positions and participation in public policy development and lobbying.
	SO7	Total number of legal actions for anti-competitive behaviour, anti-trust, and monopoly practices and their outcomes.
	SO8	Monetary value of significant fines and total number of non-monetary sanctions for non-compliance with laws and regulations.

Product Responsibility

Category	Indicator	Description	Coverage
Customer health and safety	PR1	Life cycle stages in which health and safety impacts of products and services are assessed for improvement.
Product and service labeling	PR5	Practices related to customer satisfaction, including results of surveys measuring customer satisfaction.
	PR6	Programs for adherence to laws, standards, and voluntary codes related to marketing communications, including advertising, promotion, and sponsorship.
	PR7	Total number of incidents of non-compliance with regulations and voluntary codes concerning marketing communications, including advertising, promotion, and sponsorship, by type of outcomes.

Indicator	Description	Coverage
3.1	Reporting period.
3.2	Date of most recent previous report.
3.3	Reporting cycle.
3.4	Contact for questions regarding the report or its contents.
3.5	Process for defining report content.
3.6	Boundary of the report.
3.8	Basis for reporting on joint ventures, subsidiaries, leased facilities, outsourced operations, and other entities.
3.9	Data measurement techniques and the bases of calculations.
3.10	Explanation of the effect of any re-statements of information provided in earlier reports.
3.11	Significant changes from previous reporting periods.
3.13	Policy and current practice with regard to seeking external assurance for the report.

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