Environment and Climate
ICL Group strives to reduce the environment and climate impact of its operations and provide solutions to customers to reduce their CO2 emissions and energy costs.
Environmental Policy
Our Group Environmental policy states that ICL is committed to minimizing its negative environmental impact. Our Business Units shall make all reasonable efforts to minimize use of resources including energy, water and raw materials. All Business Units shall follow local and internationally recognized environmental and energy efficiency standards, as adhered to by ICL Group.
Key Facts
Further, policy states that our Business Units shall secure sustainable waste management. All electronic waste shall be reused or recycled and the Business Units shall ensure that these processes are conducted according to internationally recognised standards and regulations.
All our Business Units shall work to improve the energy efficiency in all core business processes – such as network modernisation and integration of energy requirements in procurement processes. Implementation of sustainable sourcing is mandatory, as set out in the Group Policy Sourcing.
An Environmental Management System (EMS) shall be established and maintained in all our Business Units, as set out in our Group Manual for environmental management system. To ensure continuous improvements of the local environmental performance, a management review shall be conducted at least once a year.
Energy Efficiency
The mobile industry will experience continued growth in its total energy consumption and carbon footprint as mobile operators continue to increase their coverage, acquire more customers and develop more mobile broadband services due to market needs.
ICL Group’s key focus is to stabilise its energy consumption by improving the energy efficiency of its networks, as these represent around 80% of ICL’s total energy consumption.
All business units will focus on choosing cost-efficient energy-efficiency initiatives: network swaps, sourcing of energy-efficient technologies, infrastructure-sharing and more energy-efficient data centres and buildings.
In 2014, total energy consumption in ICL Group was approximately 3,200 GWh. The associated emission of greenhouse gases in ICL Group is estimated to a total of 1.1 million tonnes of CO2.
Environmental Management
Environmental Management Systems have been implemented in all business units to ensure continuous improvement of the company. Further, all business units shall focus on responsible waste management and recycling activities and to ensure sufficient control over the disposal and recycling of all types of waste.
Protecting the environment is an integral part of ICL Group’s day-to-day business. Environmental Management Systems are implemented in all our Business Units to ensure continuous improvement.
