Our commitment
Connecting people is not just our job, it's our responsibility. And beyond that, we are committed to more sustainability, more responsibility and more digital participation.
ESG
We, Deutsche Telekom, are more than just another company, which provides society with infrastructure. Whatever the circumstances, we are a trusted companion. Whenever. Wherever. We take our responsibility to society and the environment very seriously. We live Corporate Responsibility. Day in, day out. We want to be leading in terms of climate protection and in the field of sustainable supplier management, while also ensuring equality of participation in the information and knowledge society. Forever making life easier for people and enriching it is our mission.
ESG is on top of our agenda: Our ESG commitments
- Climate
- 100% renewable electricity for DT Group (From 2021 onwards)
- Double energy efficiency in DE&EU (2024 vs 2020)
- Net-zero for direct and indirect CO2 emissions (Scope 1 & 2) (until 2025)
- Reduction in energy consumption ex US (2020-24)
- Reduce Scope 1-3 CO2 emissions by 55% against 2020 by 2030 (2030 vs 2020)
- Net-zero CO2 emissions (Scope 1-3) with at least 90% reduction (Latest 2040)
- Circularity
- Zero ICT waste to landfill in Europe (in 2022)
- 100% circular around technology and devices (in 2030)
- Sustainable packaging in DE & EU:
- 100% for all new T-branded devices (in 2022)
- ~100% for all devices (in 2025)
We are working on the implementation: excerpt from the 2023 full-year presentation (February 2024)
Living responsibility, enabling sustainability
Deutsche Telekom has been committed to sustainability and social responsibility for nearly three decades. To improve transparency for our stakeholders, we assign our CR activities to the ESG perspectives. E for Environment - S for Social - and G for Governance.
Sustainable Finance
As part of our CR strategy, we have taken part successfully for many years in ESG ratings, which we select based on reputation, relevance, and independence. When rating agencies give high marks to our social and ecological commitment, the T-Share is included in the financial market's sustainability indexes.
In 2023, the T-Share was again listed on leading sustainability indexes, including S&P Global’s prominent, and CSA-based, DJSI World and DJSI Europe. Our shares were also listed yet again on the FTSE4Good Index Series (for the twelfth year running) and the STOXX Global ESG Leaders. We are also still listed on the Euronext Indexes.
The table below presents a selection of other T-Share listings.
✓ Listed successfully ✕ Not listed
a Listed in other indexes in the relevant universe.
b Index was discontinued in the reporting year.
✓c Data checked by Deloitte.
The Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) is intended to create more transparency regarding the extent to which financial products are sustainable. We therefore would like to use a table to illustrate for our investors and financial services providers the most important indicators according to the SFDR (Principal Adverse Impacts, PAIs) of their investment decisions or policies on sustainability aspects. This includes environmental, social and employee concerns as well as protecting human rights and fighting corruption and bribery. While the reporting of PAIs is not mandatory at this point in time, we publish them as a service for our investors. For the reporting year, we focused on the mandatory indicators for financial institutions in the disclosure of PAIs. In future, we will evaluate the extent to which we can also report other PAIs.
The following table provides an overview of our taxonomy-eligible and taxonomy-aligned economic activities for the reporting year. It breaks the figures down into both absolute values and the applicable percentage of Group turnover, capital expenditure, and operating expenditure.
EU taxonomy KPIs – taxonomy-eligibility and -alignment of the economic activities of the Deutsche Telekom Group
Deutsche Telekom Group in 2023
The Group Tax department is responsible for ensuring that the Deutsche Telekom Group pays taxes at the national and international level in accordance with the applicable laws. This includes the Group’s income taxes, which must also be regularly reported in our IFRS financial statements, as well as VAT and income tax on salaries payable within the context of customer transactions and for Group employees and other taxes that are triggered for the Group.
Please find more details in the following documents:
Country-by-country Reporting 2022
Country-by-country Reporting 2023
We have received numerous prizes and awards for our performance in the following fields:
Awards for our commitment to sustainability and our reporting
Awards for sustainable products and services
Awards for sustainable finance
Awards for our commitment to digital inclusion and digital values
Awards for our commitment in the area of diversity
Awards for our mobile network in Germany
Awards for our work in training and development
Awards for the Systems Solutions segment
ESG Data and Background Information
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