Following an initial three-year successful cooperation, we extended our partnership with WWF in June 2006, the global conservation organisation, for a further three years. We're working closely together to find new ways of enhancing Nokia's environmental performance and increasing the environmental awareness of everyone in the company, while at the same time supporting nature conservation.
WWF supports us in our aim to become a leading company in terms of environmental performance. We cooperate on environmental awareness-building among Nokia employees, and on selected operational areas like take-back campaigning. We've worked with WWF to create the Connect to Protect internal website for Nokia employees around the world. We have also jointly organized workshops, road shows and business case programs for our employees, as well as seminars for our external stakeholders.
Since January 2008 Nokia is also a member of Climate Savers, a programme where WWF and businesses collaborate to show leadership in addressing climate change. Being a member of the WWF Climate Savers programme reinforces our commitment to energy saving in our operations, ways of working and products.
Nokia has also supported connect2earth, the green on-line community launched by WWF and IUCN in early 2008, enabling young people to tell the world what they think about the environment by uploading videos, pictures and comments.
In addition, WWF images and videos are pre-installed in the eco-catalogues of some Nokia mobile devices.
Finally, we've also supported WWF's Operation Mermaid project in the Baltic Sea, and several other local WWF projects all over the world.