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

EcoAct, an Atos organization, operates collectively with Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telefónica, Telia Firm and Vodafone on new customer labelling to recognize far more sustainable mobile telephones

Madrid July 7, 2021

EcoAct, an Atos organization, manages and orchestrates the Eco Score undertaking, a new pan-business labelling plan lately initiated by 5 of Europe’s foremost mobile operators. The Eco Score label will aid shoppers recognize and review the most sustainable mobile telephones and motivate suppliers to minimize the environmental effects of their equipment in conditions of manufacturing, use, transport, and disposal.

The coordination aid furnished by EcoAct ranges from the definition of governance and conversation protocols, by way of the administration of calendars and budgets, to the creation of materials that aid doing work sessions and promote ideation and selection-generating, all from a sustainable perspective.

As chief in international sustainability consultancy and undertaking developer, EcoAct supplies the methodology of the Eco Score label and drives the collaborative process to aid the progress of Eco Score and its path to be a worldwide standard for all mobile equipment.

The Eco Score initiative has been conjointly established by Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telefónica (working underneath the O2 and Movistar makes), Telia Firm and Vodafone to deliver steady and correct information and facts at retail on the environmental effects of developing, employing, transporting and disposing of smartphones and aspect telephones.  Eco Score will allow operators and their clients to motivate a broader rating of telephones and answer to the demand from customers for far more sustainable electronics.

A assortment of new customer telephones from sixteen mobile telephone makes will be assessed by the Eco Score initiative, with many others expected to be introduced in the future. Start associates include things like Bullitt Team – Residence of CAT and Motorola rugged telephones, Doro, HMD International – Residence of Nokia Telephones, Huawei, MobiWire, Motorola / Lenovo, OnePlus, OPPO, Samsung Electronics, TCL / Alcatel, Xiaomi, and ZTE.

Starting in June 2021, the mobile operators commenced to introduce the distinctive Eco Score labelling at factors of sale across 24 international locations[one] in Europe. Prospects can study far more about the initiative and see how the rating is calculated by checking out www.ecoratingdevices.com.

Adhering to a specific evaluation, each individual mobile telephone handset will be supplied an overall Eco Score rating out of a highest of a hundred factors to signal the environmental performance of the gadget across its entire existence cycle. The Eco Score label will also spotlight 5 important features of mobile gadget sustainability, giving supplemental information and facts about toughness, repairability, recyclability, local weather performance and resource performance.

Cristina Raventós, Director EcoAct Spain reported: Our 15-12 months expertise in serving to enterprises implement constructive transform in response to local weather and carbon problems is an asset in coordinating the taking part businesses, spreading the phrase about the initiative, and advertising and marketing a collaborative process in purchase to aid the label’s progress. We are proud to be a component of this European undertaking and to aid Eco Score becoming a worldwide standard for all mobile equipment”.

Jean-Philippe Poirault, International Head of Telecom, Media, Know-how Business, Atos reported: “We’re pleased to see that the Telecom business shares our dedication to minimize their environmental footprint and suggest alternatives to minimize customers’ emissions. Our work engages our ecosystem in a virtuous circle of decarbonization, reinforcing Atos’ posture as the chief for sustainability in electronic companies and technologies.”

The Eco Score scores from the sixteen mobile telephone makes will be leveraged by Atos inside of its Atos Digital Decarbonization Trade System (DDX) and will also be made use of as a new part of the Group’s Digital Decarbonization assessments.

The Atos Digital Decarbonization Trade System is component of Atos’ Internet to Zero Transformation portfolio, the most thorough, close-to-close decarbonization capabilities on the market place to allow and speed up their journeys to net zero.  The Atos Digital Decarbonization Trade System enables enterprises and organizations to leverage electronic to simplify and automate the assortment, calculation, reporting, facts examination and visualization of emissions across the worth chain. It is established on Atos Digital Hub.

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About EcoAct

A subsidiary of Atos, EcoAct is a non-public international sustainability undertaking developer and consultancy, based in Paris, with a hundred and sixty staff in workplaces in France, the Uk, Spain, Turkey, the US and Kenya. The organization has unmatched depth and breadth in offering holistic alternatives that allow businesses to minimize their carbon emissions when driving enterprise performance. EcoAct has carried out carbon reduction and sustainability initiatives for some of the world’s foremost makes, when also developing and partnering with carbon offsetting, biodiversity and financial progress packages 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 Normal for International Goals and stories to the United Nations International Compact.

For far more information and facts, visit www.eco-act.com

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France: Lorraine Brucker-Romac | [email protected]  | +33 one 81 eighty 95 ten

About Atos

Atos is a worldwide chief in electronic transformation with one hundred and five,000 staff and yearly revenue of more than € 11 billion. European variety 1 in cybersecurity, cloud and significant performance computing, the Team supplies customized close-to-close alternatives for all industries in seventy one international locations. A pioneer in decarbonization companies and solutions, Atos is dedicated to a secure and decarbonized electronic for its consumers. Atos operates underneath the makes Atos and Atos|Syntel. Atos is a SE (Societas Europaea), mentioned on the CAC40 Paris inventory index.

The intent of Atos is to aid layout the future of the information and facts house. Its expertise and companies aid the progress of understanding, schooling and investigation in a multicultural approach and add to the progress of scientific and technological excellence. Throughout the earth, the Team allows its clients and staff, and customers of societies at big to dwell, work and create sustainably, in a safe and secure information and facts house.

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[one] The Eco Score methodology will be rolled out in the pursuing European international locations: 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.