Enabling more sustainable societies
How can Vodafone contribute?
Christele.Delbe@vodafone.com
Agenda
Introduction: The global sustainability challenges
What are the challenges faced by multinationals today?
Sustainability matters at board level
Scoping the opportunity around carbon
Learning from the Global e-Sustainability Initiative
Carbon Connections
Our Machine-to-Machine ambition
Example of delivery
Enabling social innovations
Economic empowerment and mobile access
What is our ambition in this space?
Delivering beyond mobiles
Conclusion: Towards sustainability partnerships?
How do our customers perceive us?
The rules of the game are changing
The global sustainability agenda
and the business response
The global sustainability challenge
 Climate change
 Water stress
 Biodiversity &
habitat loss
 Poverty
 Health
 Education
 Urbanisation
Sustainability requires a dramatic shift to alternative lifestyles - embracing
technology-driven “hyper-efficiency”
The global corporate response
Vision: Double the
size of our
business while
reducing our
overall
environmental
impact across our
entire value chain
18 percent of our
revenue comes
from eco-premium
products. Our aim
is to increase this
figure to 22
percent in 2009
and 30 percent by
2015.
Our consumer focused
sustainability services range
from energy management to
managing the carbon impact
of how we drive and what we
buy.
Target:
Provide 10 million
carbon reducing
M2M connections
by 2013
Scoping the opportunity
Scoping the carbon reducing potential of the ICT industry
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Enabling The Low Carbon Economy
12th June 2009
Scoping the carbon reducing potential for mobile
Mobile applications could enable carbon
reduction of over 110Mt CO2e with
potential customer energy savings of c.
€43 billion within the European Union 25
in 2020
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Enabling The Low Carbon Economy
12th June 2009
Scoping the potential for mobile
Carbon Savings (Mt CO2e)
Connections (million)
Total:
1 billion
Total:
112 Mt CO2e
Cost Savings (€ million)
SMART Manufacturing
Dematerialisation
SMART Cities
SMART Grid
SMART Logistics
Total:
€43,238m
Our ambition
Mission
Goals
To be admired as a diverse and ethical company, operating responsibly
and providing services that enable a more sustainable society for our
customers
Leading
communications
company for
responsible, ethical
& honest behaviour
1. Ensure we and our
Objectives
suppliers have
an ethical supply
chain
2. Deliver accessible
products
and services
Leading
communications
company for
eco-efficiency – doing
more for customers
with less
Leading
communications
company for
creating sustainable
societies
• Reduce our CO2 emissions
• Deliver innovative products
by 50% by 2020
and services recognised as
• Be recognised as having the contributing to the
most customer-relevant
Millennium Development
sustainability initiatives in our Goals
industry
• Establish joint CO2 reduction • Provide 10 million
strategies with key suppliers
carbon-reducing M2M
• Build e-waste management
connections
capacity in key emerging
markets
Delivering sustainability enablers to our customers
Multi-million pound contract will see Vodafone provide
nearly 1 million GPRS connections in UK household
smart meters
Fleet management company Isotrak is using M2M
solutions over the Vodafone network to enable smart
logistics, cut fuel costs and CO2 emissions
Enabling social innovations
Mobile access and economic empowerment
Our ambition
Mission
Goals
To be admired as a diverse and ethical company, operating responsibly
and providing services that enable a more sustainable society for our
customers
Leading
communications
company for
responsible, ethical
& honest behaviour
1. Ensure we and our
Objectives
suppliers have
an ethical supply
chain
2. Deliver accessible
products
and services
Leading
communications
company for
eco-efficiency – doing
more for customers
with less
Leading
communications
company for
creating sustainable
societies
• Reduce our CO2 emissions
• Deliver innovative
by 50% by 2020
products and services
• Be recognised as having the recognised as
most customer-relevant
contributing to the
sustainability initiatives in our Millennium Development
industry
Goals
• Establish joint CO2 reduction
strategies with key suppliers • Provide 10 million carbon• Build e-waste management
reducing M2M connections
capacity in key emerging
markets
Vodafone and the United Nations Millennium Development goals
http://www.vodafone.com/start/responsibility/mdg_resource.html
Delivering sustainable innovations beyond mobile
Enabling
access to
water
Enabling
access to
healthcare
Towards corporate sustainability partnerships
What do our enterprise customers think?
Verdantix – Green
Quadrant
Sustainable
Telecoms, 2010
The rules of the game are changing
 RFPs and contractual agreements
 Sustainability motivated service expectations
 From mobility to sustainability briefs
 Seeing is believing
 Sustainability: the new proxy for innovation
 Partnerships, partnerships, partnerships!
 Engaging enterprise customer around thought leadership
Looking ahead
Mobile technology offers many
benefits but I think the most
important contribution that the
industry I work in can provide is
the power to allow people to
communicate. Never has a
global conversation been more
important
Vittorio Colao
CEO Vodafone Group
Thank you