Environment

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Advanced communications technology can play a significant role in creating a sustainable future - by increasing social and economic opportunities while at the same time reducing environmental impact.

Minimize, combine, maximize

Our target is environmentally sustainable development, which enables a healthy and prosperous market and business environment for our company and for our customers to operate. The welfare of the planet, in addition to being vital for humankind, is also a fundamental prerequisite for safe and positive business development.

To achieve our target, our environmental strategy is to develop, run and enable environmentally sustainable business, which:

minimizes our own environmental footprint and helps our customers in minimizing their environmental footprint
combines environmental and business benefits for our customers in environmentally sustainable business solutions
maximizes the positive environmental impact of usage of telecommunications in society

Making renewable energy the goal

Energy efficiency of Nokia Siemens Networks base station products plays a key role in the use of renewable energy sources for powering base stations. In mature markets, the most common way to provide power to a base station site is by connecting it to the existing electricity grid.

However, in many emerging markets particularly, where mobile networks are expanding into rural areas, an electricity grid may not be available. Also even in some urban areas electricity supply is often unreliable, going off sometimes for many hours a day.

Nokia Siemens Networks has made a clear commitment to use renewable energy sources such as wind and solar power for mobile network solutions:

"A sustainable alternative to power remote base station sites is to use renewable energy sources such as wind and solar power. By 2011, our first choice to power these sites will be renewable energy."

Anna Larilahti, head of environmentally sustainable business, Nokia Siemens Networks, in a speech at the Green Forum Industry event in Beijing.

Corporate responsibility? It’s everyone’s responsibility now

Corporate responsibility is no longer the bolt-on addition to a company’s overall vision but now plays a pivotal role – not only with respect to environmental policy, but all aspects of a company’s business decision-making.

Environment: understanding the differences between trend and trendy

Anne Larilahti and Andrew Clark from Nokia Siemens Networks discuss the relationship between business and the planet.

Sustainable business = an opportunity

Sustainability - economic, social and environmental - is something that every company should take into account today.

Flexi Base Station wins Global Mobile Award

On February 17, Nokia Siemens Networks' Flexi Base Station received the prestigious Best Network Technology Advance at the GSMA Global Mobile Awards 2009.

Renewed network underpins renewable energy

Renewable energy is widely seen as a vital technology in the climate change battle. Advanced communications underpins reliable power generation, one reason why Hydro Tasmania chose Nokia Siemens Networks to upgrade its network.

Nokia Siemens Networks wins Environmental and Service awards

Nokia Siemens Networks has picked up two top awards for its products and services in China. In December 2008, the fourth annual IT Time Weekly awards gala chose the company as the winner of two categories: ‘Customer Service’ and ‘Most Environmentally-friendly Product’.

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Flexi BTS: Best Network Technology Advance at GSMA Global Mobile Awards 2009

Nokia Siemens Networks Flexi Base Station has been recognized as the world's most progressive mobile network technology at the annual GSMA Global Mobile Awards 2009. The Best Network Technology Advance award was presented at a gala dinner on February 17 at Mobile World Congress 2009, Barcelona.