We believe that environmental management has to be fully incorporated in our business processes. Environmental issues are everyone's responsibility at Nokia and an integral part of managing our business because they are related to all we do. Our environmental work is based on global policies and standards.

Nokia's environmental network acts as a virtual team across the organization and is led by the Vice President and Head of Environmental Affairs at Nokia. The group-wide environmental strategy, targets and priorities are developed and agreed by the Nokia Environmental Management Team (NEMT) representing all relevant Nokia units. The key issues prepared by NEMT are approved by the Corporate Relations Steering Group, which in 2008 had a management representative from each Business Group and Horizontal Group and some Corporate Functions in Nokia, and was chaired by a Group Executive Board (GEB) Member, the Executive Vice President of Corporate Relations and Responsibility. Major issues are escalated to the GEB if needed.

We use Environmental Management Systems (EMS) and the ISO 14001 standard to control and manage the environmental aspects of our production sites and large offices. Nokia has a corporate level ISO 14001 certificate in place for all manufacturing sites. We also require this of our main contract manufacturers, and an EMS is one of our supplier requirements. We have also implemented an internally verified EMS in our large offices and R&D sites.

Our Environmental Management System consists of:

• Nokia Environmental Policy
• Identification of environmental aspects, and evaluation of their significance
• Objectives and programmes for achieving environmental targets
• Compliance with legal and other regulatory requirements
• Audits, management reviews and continuous improvement
• Operational management (data & processes) for energy & water consumption, waste etc.

The goal of the Nokia EMS is to improve our environmental performance, focusing on:

• Energy consumption
• Water consumption
• Air emissions
• Ozone-depleting substances
• Waste management
• Packaging.

All actions arising from internal and external audit findings have been followed up, corrected and are monitored until closure.

We believe that minimising our environmental impacts requires continuous improvement, so a team of people has been set up to share best practices and to follow up global environmental targets. It includes people responsible for EMSs from manufacturing sites, and a representative from office sites who is responsible for EMS.

In 2008, we will begin integrating the EMS into our quality management system. During the  first step we agreed on internal targets including global limits for waste produced and energy consumed per phone.