INTERNATIONAL RESEARCHERS COST AUTO MANUFACTURERS SUSTAINABILITY RECORD
October 1st, 2009
BY KEITH NUTHALL
GENERAL Motors wastes Euro 9.8 billion's worth of environmental and social costs compared to a notional industry average, a new international assessment on auto industry sustainability has claimed. This follows the largest such statistical exercise ever undertaken, carried out by experts from Queen's University, Belfast, in Northern Ireland; the Euromed Management School, Marseilles, France; and the Institute for Futures Studies and Technology Assessment (IZT), Berlin. In a study looking at data from 1999 to 2007 for 17 major automakers (the ...
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