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

EcoAct, an Atos corporation, is effective alongside one another with Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telefónica, Telia Enterprise and Vodafone on new shopper labelling to determine more sustainable cell telephones

Madrid July 7, 2021

EcoAct, an Atos corporation, manages and orchestrates the Eco Rating challenge, a new pan-industry labelling scheme a short while ago initiated by five of Europe’s foremost cell operators. The Eco Rating label will support consumers determine and evaluate the most sustainable cell telephones and stimulate suppliers to lower the environmental effects of their products in conditions of manufacturing, use, transport, and disposal.

The coordination guidance delivered by EcoAct ranges from the definition of governance and interaction protocols, as a result of the administration of calendars and budgets, to the generation of products that aid performing classes and endorse ideation and determination-generating, all from a sustainable viewpoint.

As chief in intercontinental sustainability consultancy and challenge developer, EcoAct offers the methodology of the Eco Rating label and drives the collaborative method to aid the progress of Eco Rating and its path to be a worldwide standard for all cell products.

The Eco Rating initiative has been conjointly produced by Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telefónica (working underneath the O2 and Movistar makes), Telia Enterprise and Vodafone to supply constant and accurate data at retail on the environmental effects of generating, applying, transporting and disposing of smartphones and aspect telephones.  Eco Rating will allow operators and their customers to stimulate a broader score of telephones and respond to the need for more sustainable electronics.

A selection of new shopper telephones from sixteen cell mobile phone makes will be assessed by the Eco Rating initiative, with other folks anticipated to be declared in the future. Launch companions involve Bullitt Group – Home of CAT and Motorola rugged telephones, Doro, HMD International – Home of Nokia Telephones, Huawei, MobiWire, Motorola / Lenovo, OnePlus, OPPO, Samsung Electronics, TCL / Alcatel, Xiaomi, and ZTE.

Commencing in June 2021, the cell operators started to introduce the distinctive Eco Rating labelling at details of sale throughout 24 nations[one] in Europe. Shoppers can understand more about the initiative and see how the score is calculated by visiting www.ecoratingdevices.com.

Subsequent a detailed assessment, just about every cell mobile phone handset will be provided an all round Eco Rating rating out of a optimum of a hundred details to signal the environmental overall performance of the unit throughout its full lifestyle cycle. The Eco Rating label will also highlight five critical elements of cell unit sustainability, delivering supplemental data about sturdiness, repairability, recyclability, weather effectiveness and resource effectiveness.

Cristina Raventós, Director EcoAct Spain said: Our 15-calendar year expertise in assisting enterprises implement beneficial modify in reaction to weather and carbon problems is an asset in coordinating the taking part companies, spreading the word about the initiative, and endorsing a collaborative method in order to aid the label’s progress. We are happy to be a part of this European challenge and to support Eco Rating getting to be a worldwide standard for all cell products”.

Jean-Philippe Poirault, International Head of Telecom, Media, Technological innovation Market, Atos said: “We’re pleased to see that the Telecom industry shares our commitment to lower their environmental footprint and propose methods to lower customers’ emissions. Our function engages our ecosystem in a virtuous circle of decarbonization, reinforcing Atos’ posture as the chief for sustainability in electronic expert services and technological know-how.”

The Eco Rating scores from the sixteen cell mobile phone makes will be leveraged by Atos within its Atos Electronic Decarbonization Exchange Platform (DDX) and will also be used as a new ingredient of the Group’s Electronic Decarbonization assessments.

The Atos Electronic Decarbonization Exchange Platform is part of Atos’ Net to Zero Transformation portfolio, the most complete, end-to-end decarbonization capabilities on the market to allow and accelerate their journeys to web zero.  The Atos Electronic Decarbonization Exchange Platform permits enterprises and businesses to leverage electronic to simplify and automate the selection, calculation, reporting, info assessment and visualization of emissions throughout the price chain. It is launched on Atos Electronic Hub.

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About EcoAct

A subsidiary of Atos, EcoAct is a private intercontinental sustainability challenge developer and consultancy, centered in Paris, with one hundred sixty staff in workplaces in France, the British isles, Spain, Turkey, the US and Kenya. The corporation has unmatched depth and breadth in providing holistic methods that allow companies to lower their carbon emissions though driving business overall performance. EcoAct has carried out carbon reduction and sustainability tasks for some of the world’s foremost makes, though also acquiring and partnering with carbon offsetting, biodiversity and economic progress courses 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 International Plans and studies to the United Nations International Compact.

For more data, visit www.eco-act.com

Press contacts:

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

British isles: Catherine Radojcin | [email protected] | +forty four 7485 325 93

France: Lorraine Brucker-Romac | [email protected]  | +33 one 81 80 95 10

About Atos

Atos is a worldwide chief in electronic transformation with a hundred and five,000 staff and yearly profits of above € 11 billion. European amount a person in cybersecurity, cloud and superior overall performance computing, the Group offers personalized end-to-end methods for all industries in 71 nations. A pioneer in decarbonization expert services and merchandise, Atos is dedicated to a secure and decarbonized electronic for its clients. Atos operates underneath the makes Atos and Atos|Syntel. Atos is a SE (Societas Europaea), listed on the CAC40 Paris stock index.

The reason of Atos is to support design the future of the data area. Its expertise and expert services guidance the progress of awareness, instruction and analysis in a multicultural solution and add to the progress of scientific and technological excellence. Across the environment, the Group permits its customers and staff, and customers of societies at huge to dwell, function and acquire sustainably, in a harmless and secure data area.

Press get in touch with:

International: Marilyn Florent | [email protected] | +33 six 66 fifty one 36 80

[one] The Eco Rating methodology will be rolled out in the adhering to 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.