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62 NOKIA IN 2015
Sustainability and corporate
responsibility at Nokia
At Nokia, we want to be proud of what we achieve and how
we achieve it. We run our business in line with internationally
recognized ethical and responsible business practices, and
we work hard to create value for people and our planet.
To ensure our activities support sustainable development,
our performance reects the following principles: Improving
people’s lives with technology, respecting people in
everything we do, protecting the environment and making
change happen together.
Our networks and technology also play
acrucial part in connecting things as well
aspeople. In the future, we expect that
connected devices will converge into
intelligent and programmable systems that
will have the potential to improve lives in
avast number of ways including more
sustainable use of scarce resources and
moreeective healthcare.
Our industry plays a major role in reaching
many of the sustainable development goals
agreed by the United Nations in 2015. It also
plays a fundamental role in the improvement
of education, the progress on gender equality
and the battle against climate change. For
example, according to Global e-Sustainability
Initiative’s SMARTer2030 report, information
and communications technology has the
potential to enable a 20% reduction in
globalCO2e emissions by 2030, maintaining
emissions at 2015 levels. Our main focus and
eort in this area is concentrated on energy
eciency of networks and creating base
station site oerings that enhance the use
ofrenewable energy. In order to support
gender equality, we are enhancing access to
education and promoting technical literacy
and condence through our corporate social
responsibility programs.
Improving people’s lives
withtechnology
Our biggest contribution to sustainable
development comes through our core
business—from oering network
infrastructure and advanced technology
forour customers around the world.
Our radio networks customers serve
approximately 5 billion subscriptions
worldwide. This provides tremendous
opportunities: For instance, through
connectivity, people gain improved access
toinformation and education—also in
developing and remote areas. These increases
in productivity and economic growth are
essential for lifting people out of poverty.
Telecommunications technologies can also
spearhead communications connectivity in
real time to reduce the risk from natural
disasters, thereby ensuring that communities
are safe. In 2015, we worked with Save the
Children to increase the resilience of villages
inIndia. We also cooperated with Plan
International to improve school governance
inUganda using technology and community
media and we supported Plan International
inincreasing children’s literacy skills in
Kenyathrough providing information and
communications technology infrastructure
toschools.
Respecting people in
everythingwe do
The Nokia Code of Conduct details our high
ethical standards and our commitment to
ensuring that our technologies are not used
to infringe human rights. Additionally, the
Nokia Human Rights Policy reinforces this
commitment, through our human rights due
diligence, which aims to mitigate the potential
misuse of our products. In 2015, Save the
Children reviewed our relevant processes and
policies from a children’s rights perspective.
Thereview also included guidelines and
processes related to mitigating the risk of
having child labor in our supply chain. Based
on their recommendations we implemented
certain changes to these processes during
theyear and renewed the Nokia Child Labor
Remediation Guideline, which is overall
guidance on how to care for children in
theevent a child labor case is conrmed.
To ensure that all our employees understand
and adhere to the Nokia Code of Conduct,
werequire that all our employees complete
anEthical Business training annually. In 2015,
approximately 98% of our employees
completed this training. We also require our
employees and encourage other stakeholders
to report any ethical misconduct, which can
bedone anonymously. In 2015, our Ethics
&Compliance oce received a total of 225
enquiries and concerns, out of which 124
alleged violations of our Code of Conduct
were investigated. As a result of these
investigations and previously initiated
investigations we undertook corrective
actions, including 62 dismissals, 18 written
warnings and 32 verbal counsellings.
Percentage of employees who completed
the 2015 Ethical Business Training
~98%
Savings from reduced sick leaves
in Finland in 2015
€2.5m+