General Motors blames slow carbon intensity progress on demand for combustion vehicles
GM's absolute Scope 3 emissions are down from the 2018 baseline but have been creeping up since 2021.
General Motors says customer demand for conventional vehicles is the main reason why it has made no progress so far in reducing the carbon intensity of its vehicles from the 2018 baseline of 294 grams of CO2 per kilometre.
In its 2023 sustainability report released this week, the car manufacturer disclosed a 13.6% decrease in absolute Scope 3 emissions from use of sold products since 2018, from 279 to 241 million tonnes of CO2e. However, this reduction is primarily due to a drop in the number of vehicles sold, from 8.38 million in 2018 to 6.2 million in 2023.
