Impact Pathways
TIP identified seven opportunities where the tire sector can have transformative impact and contribute to the
SDGs across three main themes: supply chain, operations, and products and services.
Impact Pathway 1:
Accelerate and scale activities
to achieve a fair, equitable, and environmentally sound natural rubber value chain - including ensuring decent work and upholding human rights.
goal
8
Improve progressively through 2030 global
resource efficiency in consumption and
production, and endeavor to decouple
economic growth from environmental
degradation in accordance with the
10-year framework of programs on
sustainable consumption and production
with developed countries taking the lead.
target
8.4
Accelerate and scale activities to achieve a fair, equitable, and environmentally sound natural rubber value chain – including ensuring decent work and upholding human rights.
our actions
Enhance efforts to ensure sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth of the
natural rubber value chain through alignment and commitment to the Global Platform
for Sustainable Natural Rubber (GPSNR) policy framework (refer to the business example
that follows for more detail on components of the policy framework).
Enable smallholders to access advanced farming techniques and knowledge on best
practices to increase rubber yields, halt biodiversity loss, preserve future soil health and
secure income.
goal
12
By 2030, achieve the sustainable management
and efficient use of natural resources.
By 2030, achieve the environmentally sound
management of chemicals and all wastes
throughout their life cycle, in accordance
with agreed international frameworks, and
significantly reduce their release to air, water
and soil in order to minimize their adverse
impacts on human health and the environment.
By 2030, substantially reduce waste generation
through prevention, reduction, recycling
and reuse.
Encourage companies, especially large and
transnational companies, to adopt sustainable
practices and to integrate sustainability
information into their reporting cycle.
By 2030, ensure that people everywhere
have the relevant information and awareness
for sustainable development and lifestyles in
harmony with nature.
target
12.2
Advance supplier performance through engagement and participation in multistakeholder efforts to sustainably manage the use of natural resources and reduce operational impacts on the environment, including suppliers' own GHG emissions.
our actions
Take a risk-based approach to continually improve the sustainability of natural rubber
and align to the GPSNR Implementation Guidance (under development), which will
outline policy implementation actions for players at different supply chain stages.
goal
4
By 2030, eliminate gender disparities in education
and ensure equal access to all levels of education
and vocational training for the vulnerable,
including persons with disabilities, indigenous
peoples, and children in vulnerable situations.
target
4.5
Accelerate and scale activities to achieve a fair, equitable, and environmentally sound natural rubber value chain – including ensuring decent work and upholding human rights.
our actions
improve access to and quality of all levels of education and vocational training for women, youth and vulnerable groups across the natural rubber value chain. Supporting the equitable inclusion of women across natural rubber operations.
Improve progressively through 2030 global
resource efficiency in consumption and
production, and endeavor to decouple
economic growth from environmental
degradation in accordance with the
10-year framework of programs on
sustainable consumption and production
with developed countries taking the lead.
target
8.4
Accelerate and scale activities to achieve a fair, equitable, and environmentally sound natural rubber value chain – including ensuring decent work and upholding human rights.
our actions
Enhance efforts to ensure sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth of the
natural rubber value chain through alignment and commitment to the Global Platform
for Sustainable Natural Rubber (GPSNR) policy framework (refer to the business example
that follows for more detail on components of the policy framework).
Enable smallholders to access advanced farming techniques and knowledge on best
practices to increase rubber yields, halt biodiversity loss, preserve future soil health and
secure income.
By 2030, achieve the sustainable management
and efficient use of natural resources.
By 2030, achieve the environmentally sound
management of chemicals and all wastes
throughout their life cycle, in accordance
with agreed international frameworks, and
significantly reduce their release to air, water
and soil in order to minimize their adverse
impacts on human health and the environment.
By 2030, substantially reduce waste generation
through prevention, reduction, recycling
and reuse.
Encourage companies, especially large and
transnational companies, to adopt sustainable
practices and to integrate sustainability
information into their reporting cycle.
By 2030, ensure that people everywhere
have the relevant information and awareness
for sustainable development and lifestyles in
harmony with nature.
target
12.2
Advance supplier performance through engagement and participation in multistakeholder efforts to sustainably manage the use of natural resources and reduce operational impacts on the environment, including suppliers' own GHG emissions.
our actions
Take a risk-based approach to continually improve the sustainability of natural rubber
and align to the GPSNR Implementation Guidance (under development), which will
outline policy implementation actions for players at different supply chain stages.
By 2030, eliminate gender disparities in education
and ensure equal access to all levels of education
and vocational training for the vulnerable,
including persons with disabilities, indigenous
peoples, and children in vulnerable situations.
target
4.5
Accelerate and scale activities to achieve a fair, equitable, and environmentally sound natural rubber value chain – including ensuring decent work and upholding human rights.
our actions
improve access to and quality of all levels of education and vocational training for women, youth and vulnerable groups across the natural rubber value chain. Supporting the equitable inclusion of women across natural rubber operations.
All TIP members are committed to sustainable natural rubber and actively fulfilling their pledges through membership in the Global Platform for Sustainable Natural Rubber (GPSNR).
Pioneered in 2018, TIP initiated the Global Platform for Sustainable Natural Rubber (GPSNR). Recognizing the critical role of natural rubber in the tire industry, GPSNR is committed to promoting the uptake of sustainable natural rubber globally by addressing forest and another ecosystem conversion, biodiversity loss, human and labor rights violations and inequality in the natural rubber supply chain.
In September 2020, GPSNR published a policy framework that outlines a series of policy components that company members are required – as part of their commitments as members – to include in their sustainable production and purchasing policies and other documents.
In 2022, 100% of members submitted disclosures to the Global Platform for Sustainable Natural Rubber (GPSNR) in line with mandatory reporting requirements.
Related business examples
GPSNR
Michelin and Continental – RubberWay RubberWay is a joint venture between Continental, Michelin and software developer SMAG that specializes in developing technological solutions to the problem of mapping sustainability practices in the value chain for natural rubber. The joint venture was established in 2019 on the basis of a mapping tool which was launched by… Continue reading GPSNR
Impact Pathways
TIP identified seven opportunities where the tire sector can have transformative impact and contribute to the
SDGs across three main themes: supply chain, operations, and products and services.
