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

EcoAct, an Atos business, functions alongside one another with Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telefónica, Telia Enterprise and Vodafone on new client labelling to recognize much more sustainable cell phones

Madrid July seven, 2021

EcoAct, an Atos business, manages and orchestrates the Eco Rating task, a new pan-marketplace labelling scheme a short while ago initiated by 5 of Europe’s primary cell operators. The Eco Rating label will support individuals recognize and review the most sustainable cell phones and inspire manufacturers to lessen the environmental effects of their devices in conditions of output, use, transportation, and disposal.

The coordination guidance presented by EcoAct ranges from the definition of governance and interaction protocols, via the administration of calendars and budgets, to the creation of components that aid performing periods and promote ideation and selection-creating, all from a sustainable standpoint.

As chief in worldwide sustainability consultancy and task developer, EcoAct gives the methodology of the Eco Rating label and drives the collaborative process to aid the improvement of Eco Rating and its path to be a world-wide conventional for all cell devices.

The Eco Rating initiative has been conjointly designed by Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telefónica (working under the O2 and Movistar brands), Telia Enterprise and Vodafone to deliver constant and exact data at retail on the environmental effects of making, applying, transporting and disposing of smartphones and feature phones.  Eco Rating will enable operators and their clients to inspire a wider ranking of phones and react to the desire for much more sustainable electronics.

A range of new client phones from 16 cell cellular phone brands will be assessed by the Eco Rating initiative, with other folks anticipated to be declared in the future. Launch companions incorporate Bullitt Group – Household of CAT and Motorola rugged phones, Doro, HMD World – Household of Nokia Telephones, Huawei, MobiWire, Motorola / Lenovo, OnePlus, OPPO, Samsung Electronics, TCL / Alcatel, Xiaomi, and ZTE.

Starting off in June 2021, the cell operators commenced to introduce the distinct Eco Rating labelling at points of sale throughout 24 nations[one] in Europe. Clients can study much more about the initiative and see how the ranking is calculated by browsing www.ecoratingdevices.com.

Following a detailed evaluation, each individual cell cellular phone handset will be presented an total Eco Rating score out of a most of one hundred points to sign the environmental functionality of the product throughout its total life cycle. The Eco Rating label will also spotlight 5 crucial areas of cell product sustainability, providing more data about toughness, repairability, recyclability, local weather performance and source performance.

Cristina Raventós, Director EcoAct Spain stated: Our fifteen-12 months knowledge in supporting companies put into practice optimistic alter in reaction to local weather and carbon challenges is an asset in coordinating the taking part providers, spreading the term about the initiative, and selling a collaborative process in get to aid the label’s improvement. We are very pleased to be a part of this European task and to support Eco Rating becoming a world-wide conventional for all cell devices”.

Jean-Philippe Poirault, World Head of Telecom, Media, Technology Sector, Atos stated: “We’re joyful to see that the Telecom marketplace shares our dedication to lessen their environmental footprint and suggest solutions to lessen customers’ emissions. Our perform engages our ecosystem in a virtuous circle of decarbonization, reinforcing Atos’ position as the chief for sustainability in digital expert services and know-how.”

The Eco Rating scores from the 16 cell cellular phone brands will be leveraged by Atos inside of its Atos Electronic Decarbonization Trade Platform (DDX) and will also be employed as a new ingredient of the Group’s Electronic Decarbonization assessments.

The Atos Electronic Decarbonization Trade Platform is part of Atos’ Net to Zero Transformation portfolio, the most detailed, conclusion-to-conclusion decarbonization abilities on the marketplace to enable and accelerate their journeys to web zero.  The Atos Electronic Decarbonization Trade Platform will allow enterprises and businesses to leverage digital to simplify and automate the collection, calculation, reporting, info investigation and visualization of emissions throughout the worth chain. It is launched on Atos Electronic Hub.

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About EcoAct

A subsidiary of Atos, EcoAct is a private worldwide sustainability task developer and consultancy, centered in Paris, with a hundred and sixty employees in offices in France, the Uk, Spain, Turkey, the US and Kenya. The business has unmatched depth and breadth in delivering holistic solutions that enable providers to lessen their carbon emissions whilst driving enterprise functionality. EcoAct has carried out carbon reduction and sustainability projects for some of the world’s primary brands, whilst also establishing and partnering with carbon offsetting, biodiversity and economic improvement courses in Africa, Asia, China and the Americas. EcoAct is a CDP gold husband or wife, a founding member of ICROA, a strategic husband or wife in the implementation of the Gold Normal for World Objectives and reports to the United Nations World Compact.

For much more data, visit www.eco-act.com

Press contacts:

Beatriz Guillén Gómez | [email protected] | +34 661 023 931

Uk: Catherine Radojcin | [email protected] | +forty four 7485 325 93

France: Lorraine Brucker-Romac | [email protected]  | +33 one 81 eighty ninety five ten

About Atos

Atos is a world-wide chief in digital transformation with one hundred and five,000 employees and once-a-year income of about € 11 billion. European quantity a person in cybersecurity, cloud and large functionality computing, the Group gives tailored conclusion-to-conclusion solutions for all industries in 71 nations. A pioneer in decarbonization expert services and items, Atos is dedicated to a safe and decarbonized digital for its clientele. Atos operates under the brands Atos and Atos|Syntel. Atos is a SE (Societas Europaea), shown on the CAC40 Paris stock index.

The objective of Atos is to support design the future of the data house. Its knowledge and expert services guidance the improvement of awareness, schooling and study in a multicultural approach and add to the improvement of scientific and technological excellence. Throughout the environment, the Group allows its clients and employees, and associates of societies at large to dwell, perform and create sustainably, in a risk-free and safe data house.

Press call:

World: Marilyn Florent | [email protected] | +33 six 66 fifty one 36 eighty

[one] The Eco Rating methodology will be rolled out in the next European nations: Albania, Austria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Turkey and the United Kingdom.