Aliging Profit with Purpose - Global Goals Yearbook 2019

A GREEN NETWORK TO HELP
THE CLIMATE
When we come down with a fever, we can fight it with leg compresses and effective medicines.
Finding a remedy for an increasingly warming planet is more difficult. One thing is clear: Emissions
of greenhouse gases must be reduced drastically. Deutsche Telekom has established a clear plan
for doing so. The Group has approved new, ambitious climate-protection targets that are based on
the present state of scientific knowledge: We are committed to reducing our CO 2
emissions by
90 percent by 2030, compared to 2017 levels. An important milestone will already be reached in
2021, when the Group will source all of its electricity from renewable sources. Deutsche Telekom
has also targeted indirect emissions from the supply chain and the lifecycles of our products:
Emissions per customer will be cut by 25 percent by 2030, compared to 2017 levels.
By Heinz-Gerd Peters, Deutsche Telekom
“We want to build the future, not obstruct
it,” says CEO Tim Höttges about the
Group’s new climate-protection targets
while speaking at the 2019 shareholders’
meeting. “Climate protection is one of
the key challenges of our age. With the
new targets through 2030, we are taking
our responsibility seriously and are acting
decisively, quickly and, at the same
time, in a sustainable manner.”
A tradition of climate protection
The Deutsche Telekom Group formulated
its first climate-protection target back in
1995 and has been firmly committed to
climate protection ever since. Assuming
responsibility for a low-carbon society
has been one of the three main fields of
action of Deutsche Telekom’s corporate
responsibility strategy since 2008. The
current climate-protection target expires
in 2020 and is set to be reached by the
To assess the quality of our internal
climate targets, Deutsche Telekom also
submitted them to the Science Based
Targets initiative (SBTi) for review. SBTi
is an independent group of experts that
evaluates companies’ climate-protection
targets to determine whether – on the
basis of current science – they will contribute
toward limiting global warming
to no more than 2°C above pre-industrial
levels, in line with the declarations of
the UN Paris Agreement. The results of
the evaluation were gratifying: SBTi approved
Deutsche Telekom’s targets after
a thorough review.
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