Green Future Best Practice Awards
Technological innovation is one key element to solve the climate crisis. With the Green Future Best Practice Awards, Deutsche Telekom recognizes and promotes best practices from partner companies that are exemplary in leading the way to a climate-friendly, circular industry and support critical areas for reaching Deutsche Telekom’s strategic environmental targets. The awarding ceremony is part of the yearly Campus Fair in Bonn. An event to showcase and discuss trends and developments in the realm of ICT technology and innovation.
Deutsche Telekom has invited promising partner companies to apply for the 2024 Green Future Best Practice Awards. Applications were evaluated carefully by an internal jury, consisting of DTAG Executives. On June 4th, the winners of 2024 received their awards.
“Accelerating our sustainability efforts is about actions, not words. It's crucial to encourage and acknowledge partners who actively join us in this journey. Through our Green Future Best Practice Awards, we celebrate partners who demonstrate outstanding dedication to advancing climate objectives of Deutsche Telekom."
By designing technology with a green perspective right from the start, emissions from production, use-phase and end-of-life-management for products and solutions can be mitigated. These are important levers in reducing the so-called Scope-3 emissions of Deutsche Telekom. The company has committed to reduce overall emissions (Scope 1,2 &3) by 55% until 2030 and reach net-zero emissions in 2040. While Deutsche Telekom has already made significant progress in reducing the Scope-1 and Scope-2 emissions from its direct operations, Scope-3 emissions from the value chain remain a challenge only to be solved in cooperation with suppliers and partners.
Arash Ashouriha, Senior Vice President Group Technology: "To contain the acute climate crisis, we need to rethink technology. Our award winners demonstrate how technological and ecological progress can be coupled!"
Winners of the Green Future Best Practice Awards 2024
Ericsson's Network Modernization for Climate Change (Category 1.1 – Scope 1&2 Reduction): The solution impressed with above-average CO2 reduction in grid operation. This will help Deutsche Telekom achieve its climate and energy efficiency targets. © Florian Trettenbach / Deutsche Telekom
Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability (Category 1.2 – Scope 3 Reduction): Microsoft's solution to decarbonize via cloud solutions not only demonstrably reduces emissions in Deutsche Telekom's supply chain (so-called Scope 3 emissions), but also impressed with good business benefits. Compared to traditional data centers, the Microsoft Cloud is significantly more energy efficient. © Florian Trettenbach / Deutsche Telekom
Everphone (Category 2 – Circularity): Business customers rent devices instead of buying them and Everphone brings them into a 2nd or 3rd lifecycle. Through this innovative approach to a new business model, Everphone achieves impressive circular economy benefits such as an extended lifespan of the end devices, resource and energy savings as well as a refurbished quota of 98%. © Florian Trettenbach / Deutsche Telekom
Juniper’s Power Steering (Category 3 – Innovation / Potential Game Changer): The solution analyzes network utilization throughout the day and provides guidance on where capacity can be temporarily shut down without impacting the customer experience. The innovation project impressed with its potential for saving energy and improving network efficiency. © Florian Trettenbach / Deutsche Telekom
Green Future Best Practice Awards represents one of Deutsche Telekom's multiple parallel approaches aimed at reducing its Scope-3 emissions. Sustainability criteria are also part of Deutsche Telekom purchasing processes. By favouring products with a greener footprint, positive impacts of new technologies like resource conservation or efficiency gains are also heightened. Honouring innovative products and solutions in this realm stimulates the research and development and can help accelerate the journey towards a net-zero, circular economy.
