Enabling the transition

Toward a low-carbon society via smart ICT solutions

Climate change is increasingly recognized as a strategic matter for Belgacom Group, as it represents potential risks for its operations but also enables new business opportunities. Not only does the company feel it has a moral obligation to fight climate change, but it believes it makes business sense to embed climate change thinking in their everyday business.

As the leading provider of telecommunication services in Belgium, Belgacom can play an important role in enabling the transition to a low-carbon society. Its strategy to fight climate change is threefold:

- Helping customers reduce their carbon footprint via smart ICT solutions,

- Managing and reducing their own carbon emissions

- Engaging and influencing its stakeholders (employees, suppliers, etc.)

Belgacom’s enabling role

Recent reports such as the GeSI/Climate Group Smart 2020 study demonstrate that by enabling other sectors to reduce their emissions, the ICT industry could reduce global emissions by as much as 15 per cent by 2020 – a volume of CO2 five times its own footprint in 2020.

Belgacom’s products and services can indeed contribute to lower-carbon ways of living and working. These ICT solutions can be grouped in two categories: dematerialization and smart ICT solutions enabling energy efficiency.

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Belgacom Group is the leading operator and ICT solutions provider in Belgium Offers quadruple-play solutions integrating landline and mobile telephony, internet and television
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