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

EcoAct, an Atos company, works with each other with Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telefónica, Telia Organization and Vodafone on new consumer labelling to establish additional sustainable cellular phones

Madrid July seven, 2021

EcoAct, an Atos company, manages and orchestrates the Eco Score job, a new pan-marketplace labelling scheme lately initiated by five of Europe’s top cellular operators. The Eco Score label will support consumers establish and assess the most sustainable cellular phones and persuade makers to cut down the environmental impression of their units in conditions of creation, use, transportation, and disposal.

The coordination help provided by EcoAct ranges from the definition of governance and conversation protocols, through the management of calendars and budgets, to the creation of materials that facilitate doing work classes and advertise ideation and conclusion-earning, all from a sustainable viewpoint.

As leader in global sustainability consultancy and job developer, EcoAct provides the methodology of the Eco Score label and drives the collaborative procedure to facilitate the improvement of Eco Score and its route to be a world common for all cellular units.

The Eco Score initiative has been conjointly made by Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telefónica (running underneath the O2 and Movistar brands), Telia Organization and Vodafone to provide reliable and exact information and facts at retail on the environmental impression of producing, working with, transporting and disposing of smartphones and aspect phones.  Eco Score will help operators and their customers to persuade a broader score of phones and reply to the demand for additional sustainable electronics.

A range of new consumer phones from 16 cellular telephone brands will be assessed by the Eco Score initiative, with other folks predicted to be declared in the upcoming. Start partners involve Bullitt Team – Dwelling of CAT and Motorola rugged phones, Doro, HMD World wide – Dwelling of Nokia Phones, Huawei, MobiWire, Motorola / Lenovo, OnePlus, OPPO, Samsung Electronics, TCL / Alcatel, Xiaomi, and ZTE.

Starting up in June 2021, the cellular operators commenced to introduce the distinctive Eco Score labelling at details of sale throughout 24 nations[one] in Europe. Customers can find out additional about the initiative and see how the score is calculated by going to www.ecoratingdevices.com.

Following a comprehensive assessment, every cellular telephone handset will be specified an overall Eco Score score out of a utmost of one hundred details to signal the environmental general performance of the gadget throughout its total existence cycle. The Eco Score label will also spotlight five essential aspects of cellular gadget sustainability, furnishing added information and facts about sturdiness, repairability, recyclability, local weather efficiency and useful resource efficiency.

Cristina Raventós, Director EcoAct Spain stated: “Our 15-calendar year expertise in supporting corporations implement favourable alter in reaction to local weather and carbon challenges is an asset in coordinating the taking part providers, spreading the word about the initiative, and selling a collaborative procedure in get to facilitate the label’s improvement. We are happy to be a component of this European job and to support Eco Score turning out to be a world common for all cellular units”.

Jean-Philippe Poirault, World wide Head of Telecom, Media, Technological innovation Marketplace, Atos stated: “We’re pleased to see that the Telecom marketplace shares our dedication to cut down their environmental footprint and suggest methods to cut down customers’ emissions. Our work engages our ecosystem in a virtuous circle of decarbonization, reinforcing Atos’ place as the leader for sustainability in electronic providers and technological innovation.”

The Eco Score scores from the 16 cellular telephone brands will be leveraged by Atos inside its Atos Electronic Decarbonization Trade System (DDX) and will also be made use of as a new component of the Group’s Electronic Decarbonization assessments.

The Atos Electronic Decarbonization Trade System is component of Atos’ Internet to Zero Transformation portfolio, the most comprehensive, conclude-to-conclude decarbonization abilities on the market to help and speed up their journeys to net zero.  The Atos Electronic Decarbonization Trade System allows enterprises and corporations to leverage electronic to simplify and automate the collection, calculation, reporting, data evaluation and visualization of emissions throughout the benefit chain. It is launched on Atos Electronic Hub.

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About EcoAct

A subsidiary of Atos, EcoAct is a private global sustainability job developer and consultancy, dependent in Paris, with 160 workforce in workplaces in France, the British isles, Spain, Turkey, the US and Kenya. The company has unmatched depth and breadth in offering holistic methods that help providers to cut down their carbon emissions when driving enterprise general performance. EcoAct has carried out carbon reduction and sustainability initiatives for some of the world’s top brands, when also producing and partnering with carbon offsetting, biodiversity and financial improvement applications 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 World wide Ambitions and stories to the United Nations World wide Compact.

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

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

British isles: Catherine Radojcin | [email protected] | +44 7485 325 ninety three

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

About Atos

Atos is a world leader in electronic transformation with a hundred and five,000 workforce and once-a-year profits of around € 11 billion. European range a person in cybersecurity, cloud and large general performance computing, the Team provides customized conclude-to-conclude methods for all industries in seventy one nations. A pioneer in decarbonization providers and merchandise, Atos is committed to a protected and decarbonized electronic for its clientele. Atos operates underneath the brands Atos and Atos|Syntel. Atos is a SE (Societas Europaea), stated on the CAC40 Paris stock index.

The goal of Atos is to support layout the upcoming of the information and facts area. Its expertise and providers help the improvement of understanding, education and learning and study in a multicultural tactic and contribute to the improvement of scientific and technological excellence. Throughout the planet, the Team allows its customers and workforce, and users of societies at massive to stay, work and create sustainably, in a protected and protected information and facts area.

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[one] The Eco Score methodology will be rolled out in the subsequent European nations: 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.