EcoAct drives the new pan-industry Eco Rating scheme for mobile phones

EcoAct, an Atos corporation, performs alongside one another with Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telefónica, Telia Enterprise and Vodafone on new consumer labelling to establish additional sustainable cellular phones

Madrid July seven, 2021

EcoAct, an Atos corporation, manages and orchestrates the Eco Score job, a new pan-industry labelling plan not long ago initiated by five of Europe’s main cellular operators. The Eco Score label will assist buyers establish and compare the most sustainable cellular phones and motivate manufacturers to decrease the environmental effects of their devices in phrases of production, use, transportation, and disposal.

The coordination support furnished by EcoAct ranges from the definition of governance and interaction protocols, via the management of calendars and budgets, to the generation of supplies that aid performing classes and advertise ideation and decision-producing, all from a sustainable perspective.

As chief in global sustainability consultancy and job developer, EcoAct delivers the methodology of the Eco Score label and drives the collaborative system to aid the enhancement of Eco Score and its route to be a world wide typical for all cellular devices.

The Eco Score initiative has been conjointly developed by Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telefónica (working beneath the O2 and Movistar makes), Telia Enterprise and Vodafone to provide dependable and correct data at retail on the environmental effects of producing, employing, transporting and disposing of smartphones and function phones.  Eco Score will allow operators and their consumers to motivate a broader rating of phones and respond to the desire for additional sustainable electronics.

A vary of new consumer phones from 16 cellular cellular phone makes will be assessed by the Eco Score initiative, with other people anticipated to be introduced in the long term. Launch associates include Bullitt Group – Property of CAT and Motorola rugged phones, Doro, HMD Global – Property of Nokia Telephones, Huawei, MobiWire, Motorola / Lenovo, OnePlus, OPPO, Samsung Electronics, TCL / Alcatel, Xiaomi, and ZTE.

Beginning in June 2021, the cellular operators commenced to introduce the distinct Eco Score labelling at details of sale throughout 24 countries[1] in Europe. Consumers can discover additional about the initiative and see how the rating is calculated by viewing www.ecoratingdevices.com.

Subsequent a in-depth assessment, every single cellular cellular phone handset will be presented an overall Eco Score score out of a utmost of 100 details to sign the environmental overall performance of the machine throughout its full daily life cycle. The Eco Score label will also emphasize five essential areas of cellular machine sustainability, giving further data about durability, repairability, recyclability, local climate effectiveness and useful resource effectiveness.

Cristina Raventós, Director EcoAct Spain reported: “Our 15-year know-how in encouraging organizations put into practice constructive transform in reaction to local climate and carbon troubles is an asset in coordinating the participating firms, spreading the phrase about the initiative, and marketing a collaborative system in purchase to aid the label’s enhancement. We are happy to be a section of this European job and to assist Eco Score turning into a world wide typical for all cellular devices”.

Jean-Philippe Poirault, Global Head of Telecom, Media, Know-how Industry, Atos reported: “We’re happy to see that the Telecom industry shares our motivation to decrease their environmental footprint and propose remedies to decrease customers’ emissions. Our get the job done engages our ecosystem in a virtuous circle of decarbonization, reinforcing Atos’ place as the chief for sustainability in digital solutions and know-how.”

The Eco Score scores from the 16 cellular cellular phone makes will be leveraged by Atos in its Atos Electronic Decarbonization Exchange Platform (DDX) and will also be made use of as a new element of the Group’s Electronic Decarbonization assessments.

The Atos Electronic Decarbonization Exchange Platform is section of Atos’ Internet to Zero Transformation portfolio, the most detailed, close-to-close decarbonization abilities on the market to allow and speed up their journeys to internet zero.  The Atos Electronic Decarbonization Exchange Platform lets enterprises and organizations to leverage digital to simplify and automate the collection, calculation, reporting, information analysis and visualization of emissions throughout the worth chain. It is founded on Atos Electronic Hub.

####

About EcoAct

A subsidiary of Atos, EcoAct is a non-public global sustainability job developer and consultancy, based mostly in Paris, with one hundred sixty staff members in offices in France, the Uk, Spain, Turkey, the US and Kenya. The corporation has unmatched depth and breadth in delivering holistic remedies that allow firms to decrease their carbon emissions whilst driving organization overall performance. EcoAct has carried out carbon reduction and sustainability initiatives for some of the world’s main makes, whilst also building and partnering with carbon offsetting, biodiversity and financial enhancement programs in Africa, Asia, China and the Americas. EcoAct is a CDP gold spouse, a founding member of ICROA, a strategic spouse in the implementation of the Gold Conventional for Global Plans and stories to the United Nations Global Compact.

For additional data, visit www.eco-act.com

Push contacts:

Beatriz Guillén Gómez | [email protected] | +34 661 023 931

Uk: Catherine Radojcin | [email protected] | +forty four 7485 325 ninety three

France: Lorraine Brucker-Romac | [email protected]  | +33 1 eighty one 80 95 ten

About Atos

Atos is a world wide chief in digital transformation with one zero five,000 staff members and once-a-year income of in excess of € 11 billion. European quantity one in cybersecurity, cloud and superior overall performance computing, the Group delivers customized close-to-close remedies for all industries in seventy one countries. A pioneer in decarbonization solutions and merchandise, Atos is dedicated to a secure and decarbonized digital for its purchasers. Atos operates beneath the makes Atos and Atos|Syntel. Atos is a SE (Societas Europaea), listed on the CAC40 Paris stock index.

The intent of Atos is to assist design the long term of the data area. Its know-how and solutions support the enhancement of awareness, instruction and investigation in a multicultural method and contribute to the enhancement of scientific and technological excellence. Throughout the globe, the Group enables its consumers and staff members, and users of societies at big to reside, get the job done and produce sustainably, in a safe and secure data area.

Push get hold of:

Global: Marilyn Florent | [email protected] | +33 6 66 51 36 80

[1] The Eco Score methodology will be rolled out in the next European countries: Albania, Austria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Eire, Italy, Lithuania, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Turkey and the United Kingdom.