Networking equipment vendor Nokia said it will reduce emissions by 50% across both its operations and products in use by 2030.
The company said it is aiming to recalibrate in line with a 1.5° C global warming scenario as outlined by the Paris Agreement on climate change. Nokia initially outlined its emissions reductions in 2017 with the goals based on limiting global warming to 2° C. However, the company is adopting a more ambitious target to include emissions from both logistics and assembly factories in its supply chain as well as emissions from Nokia’s own operations.
Products in use are the largest part of Nokia’s carbon footprint and the company is looking to change the emissions from its products through modernization and better use of resources.
This includes:
- Cutting energy use by up to 66% of its ReefShark chipset used in Airscale radio products.
- Delivering a liquid cooled 5G base station into commercial operation, which can reduce the energy consumption of the base station cooling system by 90% and CO2 emissions of the Airscale radio products by 80%.
- Enabling the use of fewer materials in its compact active antenna product.
- Using the Nokia AVA Energy Efficiency service to reduce energy use by 20% through artificial intelligence that powers down parts of the radio network when traffic levels are low.
