The ICT industry is a key player in transforming our way of operating towards more environmentally friendly and climate change mitigation. For the ICT industry to be able to effectively reduce the emissions of other industries, it must take care of its own emissions.

Our environmental responsibility focuses on climate and energy

Energy consumption of Elisa’s telecommunication networks in Finland and Estonia is main contributor of Elisa’s direct CO2 emissions.

Climate change mitigation and reducing carbon dioxide emissions is one of our main targets and has been part of our strategy implementation since 2009.

Elisa is the first Finnish teleoperator tarketing to reach the Paris climate agreement (limiting the temprature increase to 1.5 degrees Celsius) and to take part in the international Science Based Targets initiative.

Elisa's environmental policy and a management system guide our work to decrease our key environmental impacts. We are committed to improve the environmental impacts of our business and promote environmentally sustainable operations.

The energy efficiency working group meets four times a year to monitor the achievement of our energy efficiency and carbon footprint goals. Material climate risks are reviewed in the energy efficiency group once a year. The EU Energy Efficiency Directive obligates Elisa to perform energy audits at company and target level every four years.

Reducing our carbon footprint and that of our customers

We want to participate to contribute to creation of a carbon neutral society. We are actively working to establish modern, more energy efficient and environmentally friendly solutions for our network technologies. By developing our operations, we can also provide sustainable digital services that enable our customers to operate in a more resource-efficient and climate-friendly manner.

In reducing carbon emissions Elisa focuses on utilising energy from data centers, district cooling solutions, zero-emission energy, continuous improvement of energy efficiency, and new innovative solutions like liquid cooling base stations.

We assist our customers in reducing their CO2 -emissions by offering services that help our customers act effectively and in an environmentally friendly manner.

Examples:

We recycle used devices and offer repair service (Fonum)
We were the first in Finland to offer Fairphone
Elisa Videra's virtual interactive services reduce travel
Elisa Automate helps operators in network optimisation and reducing electricity consumption
Elisa Smart Factory offers improved energy and material efficiency
We utilise waste heat from data centers

Elisa CO2 emission calculation 2019