Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility

Goal achieved: Net Zero

Telekom is climate neutral in its own operations. By the end of 2025, we have achieved net-zero emissions – because we believe that ecology and economy go hand in hand.

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No hate speech: ‘Open your eyes’

Hate on the Internet will not disappear if we close our eyes. That's why ‘Open your eyes‘ is the message of Deutsche Telekom's new campaign.

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Artificial intelligence for greater energy efficiency.

Deutsche Telekom uses AI responsibly

Deutsche Telekom is looking at AI holistically: the aim is to exploit the benefits while keeping energy and resource requirements as low as possible.

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Data privacy and security

Find security tips and current information on data privaxy and security here.

Living responsibility, enabling sustainability

Deutsche Telekom has been committed to sustainability and social responsibility for nearly three decades. To improve transparency for our stakeholders, we assign our CR activities to the ESG perspectives. E for Environment - S for Social - and G for Governance.

Our ESG strategy

We take responsibility for the environment and society.

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Environment

Deutsche Telekom has made a clear commitment to climate-neutral business practices and the pursuit of a circular economy.

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Social

Deutsche Telekom considers itself an active member of society and takes responsibility when it comes to social issues.

Governance

Corporate governance lays the strategic foundation for sustainable behaviour.

Corporate Responsibility Report

On our way to the leading sustainable telco. Facts, figures and progress on ESG topics.

Sustainability for the curious

Sustainability at Deutsche Telekom explained simply and clearly.

Corporate responsibility news

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02‑25‑2026

End-to-end solution for carbon footprint

T-Systems and IPOINT offer an end-to-end solution for tracking the carbon footprint in the automotive industry. The solution includes IPOINT's sustainability software together with access to the Catena-X data ecosystem from T-Systems.

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02‑24‑2026

Telekom achieves group-wide climate neutrality in its own operations

Deutsche Telekom is the first DAX 40 company to achieve climate neutrality across the Group in its own operations. The company has reduced its worldwide emissions by more than 94 percent compared to 2017.

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02‑24‑2026

Trees and Building Materials: How We Neutralize CO2

Deutsche Telekom is climate neutral across the entire group for its own emissions – from networks, data centers, and vehicle fleets to all buildings. Completely avoiding all emissions is presently not technically or economically feasible. The remaining last...

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