Environment and Climate

Telenor is the first operator in Serbia to receive the Environmental Management Certificate.

The Eco Navigator allows car owners to be more conscious of the costs of their driving. It allows them to save fuel and contributes to less pollution

The 2008 disclosure of hazardous working conditions, pollution and underage labour at five tower-producing suppliers in Bangladesh, became a wakeup call for Telenor.

Nearly 1.63 million more people in Pakistan will now have access to telecommunications services.

Earlier this week in Brussels Telenor Group and other major telecom companies and equipment manufacturers have agreed to reduce the electricity consumption of their broadband equipment and data centres.

Grameenphone and University of Oslo successfully launched a Community Power Project in Paharpur village in rural Bangladesh. As a result, many households in the remote village, which is not connected to the national electric grid, are now getting electricity through solar energy.

In five months, 500 Norwegian sports clubs have collected 171,904 used mobile phones. Never before have so many mobile phones been returned for recycling in Norway. This community effort secured more than NOK 6 million from Telenor.

For several years, Telenor Group has recycled mobile phones and batteries through campaigns, collecting hundreds of thousands of handsets.

In December 2009, Telenor Serbia was awarded for its results in mobile recycling and overall contribution to environmental protection.

On 1 October 2009, Promonte, the Telenor Group’s Montenegrin operation launched its mobile phone recycling campaign “Old phone, new life”.

Telenor’s Hungarian mobile operator Pannon has commissioned the first wind-powered base station in the country. An important step in reaching its ambitious environmental goals.

As part of its Deep Green initiative, DiGi, the Telenor Group mobile operator in Malaysia, has launched another climate initiative as it seeks to raise funds to reforest up to 120,000 square metres of the Kinabatangan forest.

Telenor Group has been ranked as one of the global telecom companies with highest carbon disclosure scores by the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) for 2011.

Grameenphone and University of Oslo team up to bring renewable energy to rural Bangladesh.

In November 2009 Telenor Montenegro launched an environmentally-friendly initiative by using solar and wind energy to power one of its repeater sites.

Telenor teams up with Nokia Siemens Networks to responsibly dispose of electronic waste.

Telenor’s Thai telecom, dtac, is making the fight against climate change a priority. They are taking action through a number of programmes, designed to engage the entire company.

Launched in 2008 by DiGi, the Telenor mobile operator in Malaysia, Deep Green is a programme that addresses climate change. The overall aim is to reduce CO2 emissions by nearly 50 per cent over a period of 3 to 4 years.