Nokia is a market leader in mobile devices and with leadership comes great responsibility. Nokia aims to be a leading company in environmental performance. Our vision is a world where everyone being connected can contribute to sustainable development. We want to shape our industry and drive best practices.

Achieving environmental leadership means minimising our own environmental footprint. With the expansion of mobile communications, this is all the more important. We strive to reduce the environmental impact of our products, solutions, and operations. We also collaborate with our suppliers to improve the environmental performance of our supply chain.

We have a user base of more than 900 million people which means that we have a unique opportunity to make an impact that goes beyond our own activities. That's why we aim to offer people products and solutions that help them make sustainable choices. Together, we can achieve more.

Minimising our environmental footprint

Nokia's environmental work is based on life cycle thinking. This means that we aim to minimise the environmental impact of our products throughout our operations, beginning with the extraction of raw materials and ending with recycling, treatment of waste, and recovery of used materials. We achieve this by better product design, close control of the production processes, and greater material reuse and recycling.

Our environmental efforts focus on three issues:

• Substance management
• Energy efficiency
• Take back and recycling

Basic principles

Our environmental work is based on global principles and standards. Our targets are not driven by regulatory compliance but go way beyond legal requirements. Environmental issues are fully integrated in our business activities and are everyone's responsibility in Nokia. It is a part of everything we do.