Data sheet on sustainability
Saving the climate
- Since 2008, 100 percent of the electricity needs in Germany are covered by power from renewable energy sources through a system of renewable energy certificates (RECS certificates).
- This amounts to just under 3 million MWh of power, comparable to the consumption of the city of Dortmund and its industry – without any damaging CO2 emissions.
- According to TÜV Süd, a German certification body, there has been a demonstrable, openly traceable and distinct reduction in power consumption and CO2.
- Taking responsibility for recycling and re-use.
- More than 8 million tons of electronic waste are produced in the EU.
- Since the 1970s, Deutsche Telekom has offered customers to hand in their old devices and defective phones, cell phones, modems and charging cables in the Telekom shop.
- Two-thirds of all the cell phones returned are out of order. More than 80 percent of all the materials can be recycled.
- Deutsche Telekom guarantees that all data will be deleted before re-use or recycling.
- Deutsche Telekom recycles 98 percent of its own waste, and has been doing so for years.
- Green Car policy
- The EU wants to restrict CO2 emissions for new vehicles to 120 g per km by 2015.
- Deutsche Telekom has a new target: a maximum of 110 g of CO2 per km for all new vehicles by 2015.
- Eco-driving training sessions free of charge can reduce consumption by an average of 8 percent.
- Green ICT can avoid a total of 13.4 megatons of CO2 emissions, for instance by consolidating servers, memories and data centers, standby optimization, more efficient chargers, and power-efficient PCs.
- Here too, Deutsche Telekom is a pioneer. Our target is to reduce our own CO2 emissions by 20 percent; the base year for this is 1995.
- Journeys by public transport are to be fostered:
- From now on, Deutsche Telekom staff will travel CO2-free on Deutsche Bahn
- DTAG staff travel more than 128 million km by rail every year
- This will avoid 5,700 tons of CO2
Involving the customer
- www.millionen-fangen-an.de
- Dematerialization (downloading music and software to save on packaging).
- For music CDs alone, at 64 grams of plastic and around 147 million CDs sold, that means 9,400 tons.
- Products (Sinus phones), which use up to 60 percent less energy, using switched-mode power supply.
- Video-conferencing to reduce business trips
- 30 percent fewer business trips worldwide can save 80 million tons of CO2. The partnership with the German Soccer Association (DFB) is exemplary.
Social welfare
- Setting standards in sustainable procurement.
- Deutsche Telekom is working round the world with its suppliers for high environmental standards and appropriate working conditions.
- Strict rules for responsible procurement in the Group. With a procurement volume of around EUR 20 billion a year, we have opportunities to influence the behavior of our suppliers regarding raw material extraction, human rights, social and environmental problems.
- In 2009 we therefore obliged all our suppliers to observe our Social Charter of 2003.
- We attach great value to our social standards and therefore go well beyond the sector-specific average, or the levels fixed by law.
- The Germany-wide initiative “Ich kann was” (“I can do something”) supports young workers acquiring skills (www.initiative-ich-kann-was.de).
- Introduction of a women’s quota (www.telekom.com/diversity).
- Announced in mid-March 2010.
- First DAX-30 Group to do so.
- Target: 30 percent women in top and middle-management positions by the end of 2015.
- Deutsche Telekom is Germany’s largest training institution
- A total of around 11,000 trainees and students on sandwich courses in the 2009/2010 training year.
- Deutsche Telekom undertakes as early as today to take on a total of 4,700 internally trained young people in the next three years and give them full-time, secure employment.
- The company also plans to recruit a total of more than 4,000 university graduates and experts by 2012, depending on the development of business. Deutsche Telekom is also showing stability in training.
- Up to and including 2013, a trainee ratio of 8.7 percent of the German workforce has been agreed as a binding commitment.
- That means the Group is guaranteeing to take on up to 13,000 trainees and students on cooperative courses within the next four years.
- We train more people than we actually need, to help them obtain qualifications.
- In 2009/2010, Deutsche Telekom trained socially disadvantaged young people, in cooperation with the Bundesagentur für Arbeit [German Federal Employment Agency]: “Meine Chance – ich starte durch” [My chance – ready for take-off].
- Discovering talent: the certificate isn’t the be-all and end-all, personal commitment matters too.
- There must be no lost generation in the talent market.
- Bologna@Telekom initiative
- First German company to map the education reform within the company.
- Support for sandwich Bachelor and Master courses
- Cooperation with Deutscher Knochenmarkspenderdatei (German Bone-marrow Donors List – DKMS):
- More than 3,000 employees registered.
- Haiti: Rapid assistance through an appeal for donations from employees:
- More than EUR 420,000 collected by staff for the “Deutschland hilft” [Germany helps] campaign.
- Deutsche Telekom doubled that figure.
- Also rapid assistance by T-Mobile USA.
- Help in rebuilding the mobile communications network.
- Long-distance calls free of charge.
Growth opportunities
- Increase in revenues in the “intelligent networks” growth area for the energy, healthcare, media, and automotive sectors to around EUR 1 billion by 2015
- Revenue from mobile data traffic to increase from EUR 4 billion to around EUR 6 billion by 2012 and around EUR 10 billion by 2015.
- 60 percent of our customers keep an eye on sustainability (in comparison: 54 percent when buying food, 45 percent when buying furniture, 3 percent in the financial sector).
- Worldwide, around 7.8 gigatons of CO2 can be saved by ICT, the equivalent of the entire CO2 emissions of the USA.
- For Germany, ICT can save 25 percent of CO2 emissions.