Connecting the world in a responsible way: Nokia publishes its annual People and Planet Report for 2015
May 12 2016 - 1:33AM
Nokia has published its 2015 sustainability performance report,
reaffirming its commitment to connect the world in a responsible
way.
In 2015, four key sustainability priorities guided us: improving
people's lives with technology; protecting the environment;
respecting people in everything we do; and making change happen
together. Today, we detailed our progress against these priorities
in the Nokia People & Planet Report 2015, available at
www.nokia.com/people&planet. The report outlines the
sustainability achievements, targets, milestones and distinctions
reached by the company in 2015.
Commenting on the report, Nokia CEO Rajeev Suri said: "Nokia's
focus on high ethical standards means that while our company saw
significant transformation in 2015, our sustainability vision
remained the same: to design technologies that expand the human
possibilities of the connected world while making it more
productive, healthy and sustainable. Following the combination
with Alcatel-Lucent, we are undertaking a new sustainability
analysis in order to create the necessary measurable, long-term
goals to ensure that Nokia's success in 2015 is benchmarked - and
improved upon."
2015 Key achievements
During 2015, Nokia made great progress in energy efficiency and
promoting responsible business practices. The highlights
include:
- We launched a Zero CO2 emission base station site offering
which helps to decrease base station site energy use by up to
70%.
- On average, the radio networks we modernized during 2015 now
consume 45% less energy.
- Our overall energy consumption decreased by approximately 7%
compared to the previous year and, as a result, our greenhouse gas
emissions from offices and factories declined by approximately 12%,
including our renewable electricity purchases.
- 51% of the electricity used was from renewable sources.
- We supported the UN Sustainable Development Goals and evaluated
how our business can make the best impact in reaching these
goals.
- Around 98% of employees completed our Ethical Business Training
course.
- Our employee engagement survey told us that 94% of our
employees fully support the Nokia values.
- Working with Save the Children, we are helping to increase the
resilience of children and their communities in 350 villages in
India. In 2015, we completed the first phase of the project: Save
the Children helped communities in 176 villages prepare for
disasters by creating specific disaster-management plans, school
safety plans, and village task forces.
- We also evaluated how well we are incorporating children's
rights into our core strategies by inviting Save the Children to
review Nokia's processes and policies.
- Our suppliers exceeded our expectations as 180 of our key
suppliers reported their climate impacts via CDP and over 90 of
them set emission reduction targets.
Our efforts were recognized as world-class in a number of
external sustainability reviews: CDP gave us a top score for our
disclosure of climate change data, and ranked us in the CDP A-list,
as well as in the Nordic Climate Disclosure Leadership Index for
2015; We were included in the Dow Jones Sustainability
Indices and recognized as a top performer in the Ecovadis Supplier
Sustainability Ratings; We retained our position in the Ethibel
Sustainability Index (Global and Europe) and were again listed in
the FTSE4GOOD index and the Corporate Knights' Global 100 Most
Sustainable Corporations list. About the People & Planet
Report Nokia is committed to expanding its
transparency and coverage in reporting, and to reviewing progress
on its activities. Our report is prepared in accordance with the
Global Reporting Initiative GRI G4 Core guidelines and is also
compliant with the UN Global Compact advanced criteria. Our
selected key sustainability indicators have been assured by an
independent auditor.
To find out more, please go to www.nokia.com/people&planet.
We are happy to engage with you on our ongoing sustainability
journey. Please share your ideas and feedback by contacting
us at sustainability.global@nokia.com, or join the Twitter
discussion with @nokianetworks and @nokia with #sustainability #CSR
#responsibility.
About Nokia Nokia is a global leader in the technologies
that connect people and things. Powered by the innovation of Bell
Labs and Nokia Technologies, the company is at the forefront of
creating and licensing the technologies that are increasingly at
the heart of our connected lives. With state-of-the-art software,
hardware and services for any type of network, Nokia is uniquely
positioned to help communication service providers, governments,
and large enterprises deliver on the promise of 5G, the Cloud and
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