{"id":9894,"date":"2021-03-19T10:45:41","date_gmt":"2021-03-19T10:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gsma.com\/about-us\/regions\/europe\/?p=9894"},"modified":"2025-12-11T15:50:42","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T15:50:42","slug":"eu-green-digital-coalition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gsma.com\/about-us\/regions\/europe\/news\/eu-green-digital-coalition\/","title":{"rendered":"Telecom CEOs Join European Green Digital Coalition, Commit to Green and Digital Transformation"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Joint Statement by the GSMA and ETNO<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Brussels, 19 March 2021 \u2013 Today, 13 European telecom CEOs became founding members of the European Green Digital Coalition, and pledged their companies would be climate neutral by 2040 at the latest to accelerate the European Commission\u2019s climate ambitions.<\/p>\n

The telecom CEOs were joined by 13 CEOs from leading companies from the ICT sector, as well as manufacturing and digital SMEs. The Declaration<\/a> was signed on the Digital Day 2021, organised by the Portuguese Presidency of the European Union and by the European Commission.<\/p>\n

The founding CEOs committed to developing \u201cstandardised, credible and comparable assessment methodologies for the net impact of green digital solutions on the environment and climate in priority sectors such as energy, transport, manufacturing, agriculture and the building sector\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n

Additional CEOs are expected to join the coalition in the coming months and the results of their work will be presented in 2022.<\/p>\n

The European telecoms sector has a long-standing commitment to reducing its carbon footprint, while promoting connectivity services and tools to reduce emissions across many sectors to benefit the environment and society. Mobile technologies help reduce emissions in other sectors by 10 times the amount produced by the telecoms industry, according to a GSMA study<\/a>. In parallel, an ETNO report<\/a> shows the sector has dramatically cut its own emissions and is rapidly increasing its use of renewable energy, with a 24% jump between 2018 and 2019 alone.<\/p>\n

ETNO and the GSMA will work together with fellow digital associations GeSI, European Digital SME Alliance and DIGITALEUROPE to coordinate the ICT sector participation into the Coalition.<\/p>\n

List of telecom signatories:<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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  1. Timotheus H\u00f6ttges, CEO, Deutsche Telekom AG<\/li>\n
  2. B\u00f6rje Ekholm, CEO, Ericsson<\/li>\n
  3. Mike Fries, CEO, Liberty Global<\/li>\n
  4. Pekka Lundmark, CEO, Nokia<\/li>\n
  5. Miguel Almeida, CEO, NOS<\/li>\n
  6. St\u00e9phane Richard, CEO, Orange<\/li>\n
  7. Guillaume Boutin, CEO, Proximus<\/li>\n
  8. Henrik Clausen, CEO, TDC A\/S<\/li>\n
  9. Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda \u00c1lvarez-Pallete, CEO, Telef\u00f3nica<\/li>\n
  10. Thomas Arnoldner, CEO, A1 Telekom Austria Group<\/li>\n
  11. Jukka Leinonen, EVP Nordics, Telenor Group and CEO DNA<\/li>\n
  12. Allison Kirkby, CEO, Telia Company<\/li>\n
  13. Nick Read, CEO, Vodafone Group<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Learn more:<\/strong><\/h2>\n