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Swisscom Targets Positive CO2 Contribution of 1M Tons per year by 2025

Swisscom Targets Positive CO2 Contribution of 1M Tons per year by 2025 Image Credit: Swisscom

With its new net zero climate target, Swisscom aims to be climate neutral across its entire value chain and, moreover, to achieve a positive CO2 contribution of 1 million tons per year by 2025. 

Swisscom said it has reduced its operational CO2 emissions by 80% since 1990, a figure that will have increased to over 90% by 2025, when it aims to be climate neutral across our entire value chain – in other words, to achieve net zero. As Switzerland’s leading ICT company, Swisscom has an obligation to honour its social and environmental responsibilities.

 

Swisscom is working to systematically reduce its emissions by over 90%. Its vehicle fleet is a major factor in this. Its entire vehicle fleet is being converted to electric, which will halve its CO2 emissions by 2025 and ensure that its vehicles are emissions-free from 2030. In its buildings, the Operator is replacing fossil-fuel heating systems with heat pumps and promoting the installation of solar energy systems. Furthermore, it is its ambition to achieve a 20% reduction in our energy consumption by 2030. Against the backdrop of annually increasing data volumes, this will be a significant challenge. However, Swisscom is also assessing our entire supply chain, reaching agreements with its major partners and suppliers in respect of their climate targets and using recyclable products. 

Many companies set themselves climate targets to be achieved by 2030 or later. The shorter deadline of 2025 was chosen deliberately. By reducing the timescale, Swisscom believes that it increases the validity and measurability of the target. It will offset our residual emissions to achieve net zero across the entire value chain.

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