Eco-Sustainability Strategy

Alcatel-Lucent is transforming communications for a sustainable planet

Eco-Sustainable Networks

Our holistic, end-to-end network approach
drives an eco-sustainable communications transformation

Enabling a Low Carbon Economy

As an ICT industry leader, we are helping businesses
reduce carbon emissions

Innovation and Engagement

Leveraging Bell Labs innovation
and playing a proactive role with key stakeholders

Reducing our Carbon Footprint

We are drastically reducing the direct and indirect
environmental impact of our activities

Reducing Alcatel-Lucent's Carbon Footprint

Alcatel-Lucent is committed to reduce its absolute carbon footprint by 50% of 2008 levels by 2020.

The company is taking measures that involve its entire workforce and the full range of its activity, from facility operations and logistics to IT and business travel. Since 2008, we have reduced our absolute carbon footprint by nearly 12.6%.

To meet this ambitious goal, Alcatel-Lucent will implement a three-stage strategy:

Getting our house in order
This means reducing carbon emissions directly or indirectly related to our business operations, through such means as cutting electricity usage, reducing energy consumed by supply chain and product transport and logistics and lowering business travel.
Ask more from suppliers
Carbon emissions from suppliers and various third parties account for a significant portion of our carbon footprint. We audit suppliers to ensure that they follow the EICC Supplier Code of Conduct and help suppliers reduce carbon emissions when needed.
Use renewable energy sources for the rest
If necessary, as we approach our 2020 goal, we can make our final push across the goal line by favoring use of renewable energy sources and through carbon credits.

Achievements

Our carbon footprint reduction goal encompasses direct carbon emissions from our own operations (Scope 1 and 2) as well as indirect (Scope 3) emissions.

In 2010, we continued our progress toward this goal by reducing Scope 1 and 2 emissions by 8%. At the same time, we included a greater range of Scope 3 emissions than in past years in calculating our absolute carbon footprint. Integrating Scope 3 emissions into the calculation shows that, in 2010, we reduced our absolute carbon footprint by 1.7% year-over-year [or over 21,000 tons of CO₂e - the equivalent of taking 3,900 passenger vehicles off the road]. It is noteworthy that we achieved this during a year when our business grew by over 5%.

Since 2008, we have reduced our absolute carbon footprint by nearly 12.6% [or over 176,000 tons of CO₂e, equivalent to removing over 32,000 passenger vehicles from the road].