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Harnessing innovation and technology to help address environmental challenges Telstra’s Environment Strategy
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Harnessing innovation and technology to help address environmental challenges
Telstra’s Environment Strategy
As Australia’s leading telecommunications and technology company, Telstra has a role to play in helping our customers and society to adapt to technological change and the opportunities it brings.
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Looking beyond our business
Telstra’s Environment Strategy focuses on using technology to address environmental challenges while also helping our suppliers, customers and the communities we serve to do the same.
It goes beyond simply managing our own environmental footprint, and encourages innovation in digital products and services that create environmental solutions to monitor, protect and improve the environment.
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The Environment Strategy is a key pillar of our Sustainability Strategy and will support the achievement of our T22 Strategy.
Our targetsStrategic priorities
The Strategy
Managing Carbon Emissions
Reduce carbon emissions intensity by 50% below
2017 levels by 2020
Climate Change Resilience
Ensure climate change risks are minimised in
Networks for the Future
Resource Efficiency
Reuse or recycle 60 tonnes of old mobile phones and increase Telstra’s waste
recycling rate to 42% by 2020
Environmental Management
Achieve best practice environmental management
Low-carbon Economic Growth
Facilitate a low carbon economy by helping reduce our customer’s
carbon emissions
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What are the opportunities?
Our research tells us that carbon emissions and e-waste are the two most important environmental issues that impact our business and which our stakeholders expect us to address. It is these issues we have the best ability to address and where we can achieve a meaningful impact.
Telstra’s category leading innovation in next generation connected experiences, global networks and Internet of Things (IoT) applications gives us new tools for creating a more sustainable environment, promising major benefits in driving improved energy efficiency and reducing carbon emissions.
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Energy Efficiency & Renewable EnergyContinue to invest in energy efficiency and increase our support of Australia’s renewable energy sector
The Environment Strategy will see Telstra focus on:
Bringing the Strategy to life
InfrastructureEmbed climate change resilience actions into infrastructure planning, investment and operation
TechnologyUse our technology to help address environmental challenges and help our customers reduce their carbon emissions
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E-waste & RecyclingReduce the amount of waste going to landfill by embedding sustainable design practices and increasing reuse and recycling rates
Materials & PackagingReduce unnecessary packaging, make our packaging more sustainable and promote the use of more sustainable materials
StoresRoll out more sustainable retail stores as we update the retail network
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Find out more:
www.exchange.telstra.com.au/sustainability/
Contact us:
Stay in touch
twitter.com/telstra
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We want to challenge and empower everyone at Telstra to consider the environment in their work and take proactive steps to do things differently.
