EcoAct drives the new pan-industry Eco Rating scheme for mobile phones
EcoAct, an Atos business, functions jointly with Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telefónica, Telia Enterprise and Vodafone on new shopper labelling to determine much more sustainable mobile phones
Madrid July seven, 2021
EcoAct, an Atos business, manages and orchestrates the Eco Score project, a new pan-sector labelling scheme not too long ago initiated by 5 of Europe’s main mobile operators. The Eco Score label will support consumers determine and compare the most sustainable mobile phones and inspire makers to lower the environmental affect of their units in terms of generation, use, transportation, and disposal.
The coordination help delivered by EcoAct ranges from the definition of governance and conversation protocols, through the management of calendars and budgets, to the generation of components that facilitate doing the job classes and advertise ideation and choice-generating, all from a sustainable perspective.
As leader in intercontinental sustainability consultancy and project developer, EcoAct delivers the methodology of the Eco Score label and drives the collaborative procedure to facilitate the growth of Eco Score and its path to be a world typical for all mobile units.
The Eco Score initiative has been conjointly made by Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telefónica (running less than the O2 and Movistar manufacturers), Telia Enterprise and Vodafone to supply reliable and correct data at retail on the environmental affect of creating, employing, transporting and disposing of smartphones and function phones. Eco Score will empower operators and their consumers to inspire a wider score of phones and react to the demand for much more sustainable electronics.
A vary of new shopper phones from 16 mobile phone manufacturers will be assessed by the Eco Score initiative, with many others envisioned to be declared in the potential. Start companions include things like Bullitt Group – Residence of CAT and Motorola rugged phones, Doro, HMD World – Residence of Nokia Telephones, Huawei, MobiWire, Motorola / Lenovo, OnePlus, OPPO, Samsung Electronics, TCL / Alcatel, Xiaomi, and ZTE.
Starting in June 2021, the mobile operators began to introduce the distinct Eco Score labelling at details of sale across 24 countries[one] in Europe. Prospects can study much more about the initiative and see how the score is calculated by viewing www.ecoratingdevices.com.
Pursuing a in-depth evaluation, each individual mobile phone handset will be specified an overall Eco Score rating out of a optimum of a hundred details to signal the environmental general performance of the device across its complete life cycle. The Eco Score label will also emphasize 5 important factors of mobile device sustainability, giving more data about sturdiness, repairability, recyclability, local climate effectiveness and useful resource effectiveness.
Cristina Raventós, Director EcoAct Spain claimed: “Our fifteen-12 months abilities in supporting corporations implement favourable change in response to local climate and carbon problems is an asset in coordinating the taking part providers, spreading the word about the initiative, and marketing a collaborative procedure in buy to facilitate the label’s growth. We are happy to be a element of this European project and to support Eco Score turning out to be a world typical for all mobile units”.
Jean-Philippe Poirault, World Head of Telecom, Media, Engineering Industry, Atos claimed: “We’re pleased to see that the Telecom sector shares our dedication to lower their environmental footprint and propose solutions to lower customers’ emissions. Our work engages our ecosystem in a virtuous circle of decarbonization, reinforcing Atos’ place as the leader for sustainability in digital services and engineering.”
The Eco Score scores from the 16 mobile phone manufacturers will be leveraged by Atos in its Atos Electronic Decarbonization Exchange Platform (DDX) and will also be made use of as a new part of the Group’s Electronic Decarbonization assessments.
The Atos Electronic Decarbonization Exchange Platform is element of Atos’ Web to Zero Transformation portfolio, the most in depth, stop-to-stop decarbonization abilities on the current market to empower and speed up their journeys to internet zero. The Atos Electronic Decarbonization Exchange Platform enables enterprises and businesses to leverage digital to simplify and automate the collection, calculation, reporting, info evaluation and visualization of emissions across the benefit chain. It is started on Atos Electronic Hub.
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About EcoAct
A subsidiary of Atos, EcoAct is a personal intercontinental sustainability project developer and consultancy, based in Paris, with a hundred and sixty personnel in places of work in France, the Uk, Spain, Turkey, the US and Kenya. The business has unmatched depth and breadth in offering holistic solutions that empower providers to lower their carbon emissions while driving organization general performance. EcoAct has carried out carbon reduction and sustainability initiatives for some of the world’s main manufacturers, while also creating and partnering with carbon offsetting, biodiversity and economic growth applications in Africa, Asia, China and the Americas. EcoAct is a CDP gold associate, a founding member of ICROA, a strategic associate in the implementation of the Gold Regular for World Objectives and experiences to the United Nations World Compact.
For much more data, visit www.eco-act.com
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Atos is a world leader in digital transformation with 105,000 personnel and once-a-year income of above € eleven billion. European number one in cybersecurity, cloud and high general performance computing, the Group delivers tailor-made stop-to-stop solutions for all industries in 71 countries. A pioneer in decarbonization services and products, Atos is dedicated to a secure and decarbonized digital for its consumers. Atos operates less than the manufacturers Atos and Atos|Syntel. Atos is a SE (Societas Europaea), listed on the CAC40 Paris stock index.
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[one] The Eco Score methodology will be rolled out in the subsequent European countries: Albania, Austria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Turkey and the United Kingdom.
