Ford claims to agree that climate change is real and the time for action is now. In its Corporate Citizenship report of 2001, Ford’s CEO Bill Ford Jr writes: ‘The global temperature is rising and the evidence suggests that the shift is being affected by human activity, including emissions related to fossil fuels used for transportation …We believe it is time to take appropriate action.’
However, this rhetorical concern for the climate is not reflected in Ford’s corporate behaviour, either in terms of the environmental impact of the vehicles it manufactures or its political activities.
