Nokia 2015 Annual Report Download - page 66

64 NOKIA IN 2015
Sustainability and corporate
responsibility at Nokia continued
Making change happen together
By partnering with others, we can make an
even greater contribution to a more
sustainable and socially responsible world. We
drive improvements by working together with
suppliers, non-governmental organizations
(“NGOs”) and industry peers.
Driving improvements with suppliers
We require all of our suppliers to meet the
high ethical, labor and environmental
requirements set out in our supplier
requirement standards before contracting
them. We ensure compliance through regular
and robust assessments, and work with
suppliers to improve performance where
needed. Our in-depth audits of suppliers’
labor conditions and environmental
management include document reviews,
interviews with managers and employees, site
visits, and inspections of facilities, production
lines and warehouses. In 2015, we conducted
195 audits, of which 16 constituted in-depth
audits of labor conditions and environmental
management, 24 were audits against our
supplier requirements, and 155 suppliers
wereaudited using the EcoVadis scorecards.
Additionally, we run training workshops for
suppliers operating in high-risk countries. In
2015, we organized online training on climate
change, conict minerals and corporate
responsibility, and we arranged face-to-face
training workshops for 42 suppliers.
We also continued our eorts to ensure our
products are conict-free. In 2015, 83% of
the smelters used in our supply chain were
validated as conict-free or were in a
validation process at the time. As of 2014, we
have published a separate conict minerals
report which provides further information on
our due diligence activities in this area. These
reports are available at http://company.nokia.
com/en/sustainability/downloads.
To support circular economies, we continued
oering our customers an asset recovery
service, which covers Nokia Networks’
products as well as other vendors’
telecommunications equipment. Our
customers can purchase a complete service
from the collection and buyback or trade-in
ofpre-owned equipment to e-waste recycling
and reporting, depending on their needs
andrequirements. In 2015, we sent around
1600metric tons ofold telecommunications
equipment for materials recovery and we
refurbished approximately 24 100 units.
In our own business operations, we
maintained certication to the international
environmental management standard
ISO14001 for Nokia Networks. This means
our environmental performance is audited
regularly by external auditors and the
auditscover processes, business activities,
organizational units and regions.
Additionally, we continued improving energy
eciency, purchasing certied renewable
energy from the grid and avoiding waste.
In2015, our overall energy consumption
decreased by approximately 7% compared to
previous year and as a result, our greenhouse
gas emissions from oces and factories
decreased by approximately 12%, including
ourrenewable energy purchases.
We continued encouraging key suppliers to
report their climate impacts and set carbon
reduction targets through the CDP (formerly
the Carbon Disclosure Project) Supply Chain
Program, which helps us to plan improvement
programs with our suppliers and improve
reporting of our scope 3 emissions. In 2015,
180 of our key suppliers responded to the
CDP’s request to disclose information
regarding their climate performance and
92disclosed emission reduction targets.
Environmental management is also part
ofoursupplier in-depth audits.
Partnering with NGOs
Through our corporate social responsibility
programs, we work with NGOs to improve
people’s lives around the world. In 2015, our
cooperation focused on promoting children’s
rights, empowering young people and
supporting those aected by drought
andnatural disasters. Our global partners
continued to be Plan International, Save the
Children and Oxfam. Additionally, we kicked
othe WWF Green Oce program at our
headquarters and started cooperation with
the Finnish Children and Youth Foundation to
strengthen young people’s faith in the future.
In addition to our regular cooperation with
NGOs, we made several donations during
2015. These include donations to various
smaller charities through Global Giving and
Plan where we targeted our support to
projects that seek to realize human rights for
all, to achieve gender equality and to mitigate
the risk of being left behind in the rapidly
evolving digital revolution. We also donated
toOxfam, in order to support Oxfam in its
eorts in Syria, Jordan and Lebanon to
provide life-saving aid to the people eeing
Syria. Together with Elisa, a Finnish operator,
we announced our plan to donate a mobile
network providing complete indoor coverage
for the new Children’s Hospital in Helsinki,
Finland, which is expected to be completed
in2017.