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Enabling more sustainable societies How can Vodafone contribute?. Christele.Delbe@vodafone.com. Agenda. The global sustainability agenda and the business response. The global sustainability challenge. Climate change Water stress Biodiversity & habitat loss Poverty Health Education
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Enabling more sustainable societiesHow can Vodafone contribute? Christele.Delbe@vodafone.com
The global sustainability challenge • Climate change • Water stress • Biodiversity & habitat loss • Poverty • Health • Education • Urbanisation Sustainability requires a dramatic shift to alternative lifestyles - embracing technology-driven “hyper-efficiency”
The global corporate response Vision: Double the size of our business while reducing our overall environmental impact across our entire value chain 18 percent of our revenue comes from eco-premium products. Our aim is to increase this figure to 22 percent in 2009 and 30 percent by 2015. Our consumer focused sustainability services range from energy management to managing the carbon impact of how we drive and what we buy. Target: Provide 10 million carbon reducing M2M connections by 2013
Scoping the carbon reducing potential of the ICT industry 7 Enabling The Low Carbon Economy 12th June 2009
Scoping the carbon reducing potential for mobile Mobile applications could enable carbon reduction of over 110Mt CO2e with potential customer energy savings of c. €43 billion within the European Union 25 in 2020 8 Enabling The Low Carbon Economy 12th June 2009
Scoping the potential for mobile Carbon Savings (Mt CO2e) Connections (million) Total: 1 billion Total: 112 Mt CO2e Cost Savings (€ million) Total: €43,238m SMART Manufacturing Dematerialisation SMART Cities SMART Grid SMART Logistics
Our ambition To be admired as a diverse and ethical company, operating responsibly and providing services that enable a more sustainable society for our customers Mission Leading communications company for responsible, ethical & honest behaviour Leading communications company for eco-efficiency – doing more for customers with less Leading communications company for creating sustainable societies Goals • Reduce our CO2 emissions by 50% by 2020 • Be recognised as having the most customer-relevant sustainability initiatives in our industry • Establish joint CO2 reduction strategies with key suppliers • Build e-waste management capacity in key emerging markets • Ensure we and our suppliers have an ethical supply chain • Deliver accessible products and services • Deliver innovative products and services recognised as contributing to theMillennium Development Goals • Provide 10 million carbon-reducing M2M connections Objectives
Delivering sustainability enablers to our customers Multi-million pound contract will see Vodafone provide nearly 1 million GPRS connections in UK household smart meters Fleet management company Isotrak is using M2M solutions over the Vodafone network to enable smart logistics, cut fuel costs and CO2 emissions
Our ambition To be admired as a diverse and ethical company, operating responsibly and providing services that enable a more sustainable society for our customers Mission Leading communications company for responsible, ethical & honest behaviour Leading communications company for eco-efficiency – doing more for customers with less Leading communications company for creating sustainable societies Goals • Reduce our CO2 emissions by 50% by 2020 • Be recognised as having the most customer-relevant sustainability initiatives in our industry • Establish joint CO2 reduction strategies with key suppliers • Build e-waste management capacity in key emerging markets • Ensure we and our suppliers have an ethical supply chain • Deliver accessible products and services • Deliver innovative products and services recognised as contributing to theMillennium Development Goals • Provide 10 million carbon-reducing M2M connections Objectives
Vodafone and the United Nations Millennium Development goals http://www.vodafone.com/start/responsibility/mdg_resource.html
Delivering sustainable innovations beyond mobile Enabling access to water Enabling access to healthcare
What do our enterprise customers think? Verdantix – Green Quadrant Sustainable Telecoms, 2010
The rules of the game are changing • RFPs and contractual agreements • Sustainability motivated service expectations • From mobility to sustainability briefs • Seeing is believing • Sustainability: the new proxy for innovation • Partnerships, partnerships, partnerships! • Engaging enterprise customer around thought leadership
Looking ahead Mobile technology offers many benefits but I think the most important contribution that the industry I work in can provide is the power to allow people to communicate. Never has a global conversation been more important Vittorio Colao CEO Vodafone Group