Top 10 in carbon cutting

For the second year in a row, Telenor is listed as one of the top 10 telecom companies worldwide in terms of its carbon disclosure score, a part of the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP). The CDP works with companies to help them reduce their carbon emissions, and Telenor has been reporting to the project since 2005.

Top ranked in the Nordics

Telenor also ranks among the top scorers within the telecommunications sector in the Nordic region. This is the first year that Telenor has scored better than industry peers, including TeliaSonera in Sweden/Finland and TDC in Denmark.

“Telenor Group has a robust and transparent non-financial reporting system where energy consumption, CO2 emissions, and trends in energy usage can be measured for both the Group and for individual business units,” said Jan Kristensen, Director Climate Change, Telenor Group. “Being ranked by CDP as one of the global telecom companies with highest carbon disclosure scores shows that we are progressing in terms of our climate ambitions.”

Networks comprise 80% of total energy consumption

Energy use in the Business Units operations is the main contributor to Telenor’s overall CO2 emissions, with network energy use comprising more than 80 percent of the total energy consumption.  The climate target on Business Unit level is therefore defined as BU’s energy consumption divided by its revenues.

Business units focus on reducing carbon emissions

“Our overall reduction in carbon emission is largely due to the Business Units’ focus on carbon reducing initiatives such as network swaps, sourcing of energy efficient technologies, infrastructure-sharing, more energy efficient data centres and energy efficiency measures related to the office buildings,” said Kristensen.

A review of the BU’s energy efficiency ambitions from 2012-15, indicates that the announced Group’s climate carbon ambitions towards 2017 (excluding India) will be reached one or two years ahead of schedule. 

Technology key to low carbon world

“Telenor views climate change as a threat to the world – a threat that the mobile industry should address. Technology is one of the keys to the transition to a low carbon world, which is why Telenor works strategically with various initiatives, both Group-wide and in the Business Units, to take its share of the societal responsibility,” concluded Kristensen.

About the Carbon Disclosure Project

The Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) is an independent not-for-profit organization and works to transform the way the world does business to prevent dangerous climate change and protect our natural resources.  CDP works with more than 3,000 of the largest corporations in the world to help them ensure that an effective carbon emissions / reductions strategy is made integral to their business. CDP is backed up by 655 institutional investors worldwide with $78 trillion under management.

Reports for reading

The CDP Global 500 Report for 2012

The CDP Nordic Report for 2012