To demonstrate its commitment to sustainable growth, Telia Company has launched new goals to empower societies in the Nordics and Baltics to achieve zero CO2 and waste by 2030.
The operator also targets to reach one million people through digital inclusion initiatives by 2025 and implement winning privacy and security strategies by 2023 to gain and maintain customers’ trust.
Telia’s markets are among the most digitally mature globally, yet the need to build and strengthen digital skills and ensuring access continues to increase. To support equal digital opportunity, a range of initiatives focusing on children, seniors and other groups will be implemented, empowering everyone to reap the benefits of digitalization.
Telia’s 2030 environmental goals, announced in 2019, are concretised by the addition of short- and mid-term targets. These include:
· Science Based Targets covering the entire value chain, to be reached by 2025. Emissions in own operations will be reduced by at least 50%, and Telia will engage with suppliers to ensure that at least 72% of supply chain emissions are covered by set science-based targets.
· To reach zero waste, the company will accelerate actions to prevent/reduce, re-use and recycle materials. 84 % of materials from own and network operations will be re-used or recycled by 2025.
· To further contribute to the circular economy, Telia will significantly increase sales of pre-owned/re-used mobile phones as well as phones sold “as a service”.
Rachel Samrén, Chief External Affairs, Governance and Trust Officer
Telia’s purpose is to constantly reinvent better connected lives, businesses, cities and societies. This means that we’re constantly challenging ourselves on how we innovate, operate and collaborate to reduce risks tao people and the planet while maximizing our positive societal impacts.
