Although our industry is not a major energy user – telecommunications accounts for less than 1% of the world’s CO₂ - we aim to use energy as efficiently as possible through the ways we work and help you to do the same through our products.

During 2003-06 we improved the energy efficiency of Nokia facilities around the world, reducing the amount of energy we use by 3.5 percent. By 2012, our target is to save a further 6 percent and to get 50 percent of our electricity from renewable sources such as wind and solar power. Read more about our energy saving targets .

Ways of working
At Nokia, we are constantly looking for new ways of working that minimise our environmental impact. We’re currently focussing on business travel and commuting to work.

Travel
In 2007, we reviewed our own working practices. We wanted to cut emissions by reducing employee travel. During 2007 Nokia employees already used teleconferencing for about 145,000 hours per month (including Nokia Networks figures in January-March).

To improve our videoconferencing and to further reduce the need for travelling, we set up new advanced video facilities at 21 key office locations. And we plan to roll out the technology to 30 sites globally. We also set up an extra 20 traditional video conferencing facilities and will increase the number of these to 220 by end of 2008.

We actively promote the use of existing shuttle services between airports, offices or hotels whenever possible, instead of individual taxi rides.

Commuting
We’re introducing measures to reduce emissions from employees’ commutes to work. These include encouraging remote working by making it possible to work wherever you are and creating local policies to subsidise lower-emission cars and public transport.

Carbon offsets
In 2007, we introduced a voluntary carbon offset scheme for all flights on Nokia business. After a trip, the traveller can pay to offset the associated CO₂ emissions and the cost will be reimbursed by Nokia. The payments will help fund a balanced portfolio of Gold standard projects around the world that focus on renewable energy and energy efficiency.

Our devices
The use phase of the device accounts for a third of the energy of the total life-cycle, and up to two thirds of the power consumption in this phase can be wasted. That is why Nokia is developing more energy efficient chargers. We've significantly reduced the amount of energy our chargers consume and plan to cut it further. You can help by pledging to unplug your charger from the socket once it has finished charging.

All our new charger models meet or exceed the EPA's Energy Star requirements. The below table indicates the no-load power consumption of the Nokia chargers currently available.The devices using these chargers are also Energy Star compliant. Full list of those devices can be found from the Energy Star pages.

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We're also making our mobile devices more efficient by making them smarter. The latest ones incorporate features like navigation,cameras, music players and internet access, so you don't have to buy, use or recharge separate electronic items. A mobile device's power demand is around 1-5W whereas computers consume 10-50W - making our small mobile devices multiple times more energy efficient in comparison to computers.

By using mobile phones more energy efficiently, together we can help reduce the total amount of energy consumed. We've put together some energy saving tips .