Our commitment
Connecting people is not just our job, it's our responsibility. And beyond that, we are committed to more sustainability, more responsibility and more digital participation.
ESG
Since the beginning of Deutsche Telekom AG 30 years ago, we have been committed to operating sustainably – out of conviction, because it also makes economic sense.
Our mission is to run Deutsche Telekom as a successful, sustainable company, always in the interplay of economy, ecology and society.
ESG is on top of our agenda: Our ESG commitments
- Climate
- 100% renewable electricity for DT Group (in 2021 achieved) ✅
- Greenhouse gas neutrality for direct and indirect emissions (Scope 1 & 2; >94% reduction since 2017, ~6% high-quality CO2 sequestration projects. ✅
- 50% Electricity from green PPAs & own production (group ex US in 2025)
- Keep energy consumption stable (group ex US) (2027 vs. 2024)
- Reduce Scope 1-3 CO2 emissions by 55% (2030 vs 2020)
- Net-zero CO2e emissions (Scope 1-3) with at least 90% reduction (Latest 2040)
- Circularity
- Zero ICT waste to landfill in Europe (in 2022)
- Sustainable packaging in DE & EU:
- 100% for all new T-branded devices (in 2022)
- ~100% for all devices (in 2025)
- 100% ready for circularity around technology&devices (in 2030)
Living responsibility, enabling sustainability
Deutsche Telekom has been committed to sustainability and social responsibility for 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.
Sustainable Finance
For more than two decades, we have been successfully participating in various ESG ratings with our share (T-share). The ratings we select depend on their relevance to the financial market, independence, quality of analysis, and the strategic relevance of the results. If Deutsche Telekom receives a good ESG rating from rating agencies, the T-share is listed in corresponding sustainability indices on the financial market.
In 2025, the T-share was again listed in important sustainability indices. These included, among others, the Climate A list and CDP’s classification as a “Supplier Engagement Leader”.
Here is a selection of the listings of the T-share:
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a Listed in other indexes in the relevant universe.
b Renamed in the reporting year.
c Classification for the reporting year is based on the evaluation from 2023.
Investment products in the field of SRI (Socially Responsible Investments) consist of securities of companies that have been successfully assessed according to ESG criteria. The demand trend for the T-share in this investment category serves as an indicator of how our sustainability performance is perceived by investors.
The ESG KPI “Sustainable Investment” indicates the proportion of T-shares held by institutional investors with an SRI investment intention. As of December 31, 2025, this share stood at around 29.3% of T-shares. (Source: Nasdaq)
The Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) aims to increase transparency regarding the extent to which financial products have material adverse impacts on sustainability factors. Against this background, we present the key indicators under the SFDR - the so-called Principal Adverse Impacts (PAIs) - in tabular form for investors and financial market participants.
The PAIs comprise indicators relating to environmental, social and employee matters, respect for human rights, as well as the fight against corruption and bribery. For the 2025 reporting year, our disclosures focus on the PAI indicators that are mandatory for financial market participants under the SFDR.
In each case, the English name of the indicator is authoritative. As no official German translation has been published, our German translation is provided solely for ease of understanding.
Further information on the Principal Adverse Impacts can be found here.
Detailed information on the EU Taxonomy can be found in our Sustainability Statement 2025.
The Group Tax department is responsible for ensuring that the Deutsche Telekom Group pays taxes at the national and international level in accordance with the applicable laws. This includes the Group’s income taxes, which must also be regularly reported in our IFRS financial statements, as well as VAT and income tax on salaries payable within the context of customer transactions and for Group employees and other taxes that are triggered for the Group.
Please find more details in the following documents:
ESG Data and Background Information
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