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

EcoAct, an Atos business, performs jointly with Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telefónica, Telia Business and Vodafone on new shopper labelling to identify extra sustainable cellular phones

Madrid July seven, 2021

EcoAct, an Atos business, manages and orchestrates the Eco Score task, a new pan-business labelling scheme a short while ago initiated by five of Europe’s primary cellular operators. The Eco Score label will assistance buyers identify and assess the most sustainable cellular phones and inspire brands to minimize the environmental affect of their gadgets in conditions of manufacturing, use, transport, and disposal.

The coordination guidance furnished by EcoAct ranges from the definition of governance and interaction protocols, via the administration of calendars and budgets, to the generation of products that aid doing the job sessions and endorse ideation and determination-earning, all from a sustainable viewpoint.

As chief in worldwide sustainability consultancy and task developer, EcoAct provides the methodology of the Eco Score label and drives the collaborative method to aid the growth of Eco Score and its path to be a worldwide regular for all cellular gadgets.

The Eco Score initiative has been conjointly made by Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telefónica (functioning beneath the O2 and Movistar brands), Telia Business and Vodafone to offer reliable and correct details at retail on the environmental affect of developing, applying, transporting and disposing of smartphones and characteristic phones.  Eco Score will allow operators and their buyers to inspire a wider score of phones and reply to the desire for extra sustainable electronics.

A range of new shopper phones from sixteen cellular mobile phone brands will be assessed by the Eco Score initiative, with other individuals predicted to be introduced in the future. Launch partners include Bullitt Team – Property of CAT and Motorola rugged phones, Doro, HMD Global – Property of Nokia Telephones, Huawei, MobiWire, Motorola / Lenovo, OnePlus, OPPO, Samsung Electronics, TCL / Alcatel, Xiaomi, and ZTE.

Starting up in June 2021, the cellular operators started to introduce the distinctive Eco Score labelling at points of sale throughout 24 countries[one] in Europe. Customers can master extra about the initiative and see how the score is calculated by viewing www.ecoratingdevices.com.

Subsequent a comprehensive assessment, each cellular mobile phone handset will be presented an general Eco Score rating out of a greatest of a hundred points to signal the environmental efficiency of the product throughout its whole existence cycle. The Eco Score label will also spotlight five critical elements of cellular product sustainability, providing extra details about longevity, repairability, recyclability, local weather efficiency and source efficiency.

Cristina Raventós, Director EcoAct Spain explained: Our 15-12 months knowledge in supporting companies put into practice constructive modify in response to local weather and carbon challenges is an asset in coordinating the participating businesses, spreading the word about the initiative, and advertising and marketing a collaborative method in order to aid the label’s growth. We are proud to be a element of this European task and to assistance Eco Score starting to be a worldwide regular for all cellular gadgets”.

Jean-Philippe Poirault, Global Head of Telecom, Media, Know-how Market, Atos explained: “We’re delighted to see that the Telecom business shares our motivation to minimize their environmental footprint and propose options to minimize customers’ emissions. Our work engages our ecosystem in a virtuous circle of decarbonization, reinforcing Atos’ situation as the chief for sustainability in electronic companies and know-how.”

The Eco Score scores from the sixteen cellular mobile phone brands will be leveraged by Atos in just its Atos Electronic Decarbonization Exchange Platform (DDX) and will also be utilized as a new component of the Group’s Electronic Decarbonization assessments.

The Atos Electronic Decarbonization Exchange Platform is element of Atos’ Web to Zero Transformation portfolio, the most in depth, conclusion-to-conclusion decarbonization capabilities on the industry to allow and accelerate their journeys to net zero.  The Atos Electronic Decarbonization Exchange Platform allows enterprises and companies to leverage electronic to simplify and automate the assortment, calculation, reporting, facts evaluation and visualization of emissions throughout the benefit chain. It is started on Atos Electronic Hub.

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About EcoAct

A subsidiary of Atos, EcoAct is a personal worldwide sustainability task developer and consultancy, dependent in Paris, with a hundred and sixty employees in workplaces in France, the Uk, Spain, Turkey, the US and Kenya. The business has unmatched depth and breadth in offering holistic options that allow businesses to minimize their carbon emissions whilst driving small business efficiency. EcoAct has carried out carbon reduction and sustainability tasks for some of the world’s primary brands, whilst also developing and partnering with carbon offsetting, biodiversity and economic growth packages in Africa, Asia, China and the Americas. EcoAct is a CDP gold lover, a founding member of ICROA, a strategic lover in the implementation of the Gold Typical for Global Ambitions and studies to the United Nations Global Compact.

For extra details, visit www.eco-act.com

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About Atos

Atos is a worldwide chief in electronic transformation with 105,000 employees and once-a-year revenue of in excess of € 11 billion. European variety one in cybersecurity, cloud and higher efficiency computing, the Team provides customized conclusion-to-conclusion options for all industries in 71 countries. A pioneer in decarbonization companies and products, Atos is committed to a secure and decarbonized electronic for its customers. Atos operates beneath the brands Atos and Atos|Syntel. Atos is a SE (Societas Europaea), shown on the CAC40 Paris inventory index.

The purpose of Atos is to assistance structure the future of the details room. Its knowledge and companies guidance the growth of information, instruction and investigate in a multicultural solution and lead to the growth of scientific and technological excellence. Throughout the world, the Team enables its buyers and employees, and members of societies at massive to live, work and establish sustainably, in a secure and secure details room.

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[one] The Eco Score methodology will be rolled out in the adhering to European countries: 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.