Sustainable Biz Magazine A4 March 2023 - Flipbook - Page 18
T-Mobile Announces 2040
Net-Zero Commitment
T
-Mobile has announced
the company's latest step
forward in its sustainability
efforts, including an
industry-leading commitment to
achieve net-zero emissions across its
entire carbon footprint by 2040. To
bolster this new goal, T-Mobile also
signed onto The Climate Pledge, a
cross-sector community of companies
and organisations working together to
solve the challenges of cutting global
carbon emissions for a sustainable
future.
“As we know sustainability is
important to our customers and
stakeholders, T-Mobile has made
great progress in reducing our
environmental footprint – and now
we're taking even bigger steps to
reduce our carbon emissions with a
commitment to meeting SBTi’s NetZero Standard,” said Mike Sievert,
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T-Mobile CEO. “We are proud that
we are doing our part to create a
sustainable future for all – including
becoming the first in U.S. wireless
to set this bold target. And we hope
companies like ours — and the
partners and suppliers we work
alongside — will join us in setting their
own aggressive longer-term goals like
these.”
With the company’s new commitment,
T-Mobile becomes the first in U.S.
wireless to set a net-zero goal for
all three emissions scopes that has
been validated by the Science Based
Targets Initiative (SBTi) using their
Net-Zero Standard – the world’s first
framework for company targets that
aligns with the latest climate science.
This goal covers emission scopes 1
and 2, inclusive of direct emissions
from T-Mobile’s operations and
facilities, as well as indirect emissions
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“The Un-carrier’s new goal
also covers all remaining
indirect scope 3 emissions
(the company’s entire
footprint!) — including
those produced by suppliers,
customer device usage,
materials and fuel required
to ship products, employee
travel, and more—which
represents roughly two-thirds
of the company’s carbon
footprint"