OTE Group recognizes that climate change is a global environmental problem the impacts of which affect its operation and stakeholders, and the whole range of economic activities as well as life on the planet.
In this context, a comprehensive climate change strategy has been formulated and implemented that includes 4 main pillars:
Over the next decade, OTE Group has committed to three climate-change targets, on Deutsche Telekom Group level, and were validated in 2019 by the Science Based Targets Initiative.
These targets are in compliance with the reductions in greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions required to limit the increase in the planet’s temperature to 1.5οC.
- 100% use of renewable energy sources (RES) for the Group’s electricity needs by 2021,
- 90% reduction in GHG emissions (CO2) direct (Scope 1) & indirect (Scope 2) by 2030 (versus 2017),
- 25% reduction in indirect GHG emissions (CO2) (Scope 3) per customer (procurement of goods and services, fixed equipment and use of products and services) by 2030 (versus 2017).
In 2019, OTE Group secured 100% electricity from RES through Guarantees of Origin from PPC, while at the same time saved 37.7 GWh of energy corresponding to the consumption of a town with 22,000 inhabitants.
