Nokia’s target is to be a leader in environmental performance. Responsible business practices have always been a part of our culture and way of working. Our goal is not only to continuously improve the environmental performance of our operations, but also to make a positive impact through products and services which enable people to make more sustainable choices.

Our approach to managing environmental issues is based on lifecycle thinking. We take a cradle-to-cradle approach in order to reduce environmental impacts in our operations and throughout the life of our products, including proper treatment and recycling at the end of their useful life.

Our priorities in environmental management are energy efficiency, managing substances in our products and take-back of used devices for proper recycling.

We believe that proactive measures and solutions to combat climate change are essential. This has received new impetus from the growing evidence of the serious threat the world faces and the urgency of action needed, as described in 2007 in the 4th Assessment by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

Nokia signed an international communiqué, along with over 150 other global organizations, ahead of the December 2007 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Bali, Indonesia. It urged world leaders to develop policies and measures for the business sector to contribute to building a low carbon economy to help tackle climate change. Nokia’s participation shows our desire to be an environmental leader and our support for the belief that the benefits of strong, early action on climate change outweigh the costs of doing nothing.

Our direct impact on climate change is relatively small but we believe we have a responsibility to tackle this vital challenge as broadly as we can, in our operations and through the use of our products.

Working with stakeholders

We believe we can maximize our contribution by working with others in our industry and beyond. In 2007 we initiated work with suppliers to set energy efficiency targets that go beyond our current environmental supplier requirements. This builds on our work to assess and develop environmental, labor and social conditions throughout the supply chain.

See supply chain for more information.

Nokia joined WWF’s Climate Savers program in 2007. “Climate Saver” companies work with WWF to achieve targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

We have also worked with the European Union’s Integrated Product Policy (IPP) project, leading a pilot study applying the lifecycle approach of IPP to mobile phones. The actual project was completed in 2006 but the work continued in several taskforces, resulting in proposals for three industry voluntary agreements in 2007. The final report will be published in spring 2008.

See energy efficiency for more information.

Highlights of 2007

In 2007, we made progress on several aspects of energy efficiency and reduction of greenhouse gas emissions:

• Introduced a charger which uses just 0.03W power if it is still connected to the mains when the phone is fully charged: 94% less than the maximum defined by the Energy Star requirements for use of no-load energy.
• Became the first mobile phone manufacturer to introduce alerts telling users when their phone batteries are fully charged so they should unplug the charger.
• Began to use bioplastics in phone covers instead of conventional plastics, saving an estimated 15% of the energy and greenhouse gas emissions during manufacturing.
• Bought 25% of our electricity from renewable sources
• Made further progress in deploying more ecological packaging. By the end of 2007 we had shipped over 250 million devices using a compact package, which has helped to take 5,000 trucks off the road, and saved about 100 million euros (since Feb 2006).

Other environmental achievements in 2007 were:

• Removed PVC from our mobile devices and gave a timeline for removing brominated flame retardants from our products.
• Agreed upon environmental targets with key suppliers.
• Joined the ICT industry’s Global e-Sustainability Initiative (GeSI), and the UN StEP Initiative which works on sustainable solutions for electronic waste.