Environmental deterioration and accelerated global warming have become global critical issues for mankind. While evolving telecommunications technologies have made their contributions to reduced energy consumption and CO2 emissions-notably from telephone calls and teleconferences eliminating non-essential travel to the use of mobile phones and the Internet reducing printed media needed for communications the fact remains that energy savings and environmental protection for the telecommunications industry itself cannot be neglected. Statistics show that the annual CO2 emission from global ICT (information and communication technology) equipment has grown to 860 million tons, equals to that of the aviation industry. As a result, energy efficiency and environmental protection are inevitable responsibilities of the entire telecommunications industry.
Our analysis of the environmental impact of business activities and the evaluation of the energy use and emissions during the lifecycle of telecommunications products, leads to the following key measures to promote environmental protection:
Through these ongoing initiatives, we hope to achieve our goal of "Green Huawei, Green Communications, Green World".
Huawei's LCA activities cover every phase of the lifecycle of our products with a focus on the offerings most extensively used by operators such as radio base stations for mobile networks and broadband access products for fixed networks.
The decreases in the power consumption of telecommunications equipment have made it possible to adopt new energy sources as power supplies in our industry. Huawei's new energy solutions incorporates the green concept and the request for reduced OPEX into the design of site products, and it has the flexibility to customize equipment and networks to fit our customers' individual requirements and the local climatic factors where the network will operate.
In the transport of telecommunications equipment, packaging consumes a large amount of timber. In order to reduce the consumption of timber, we extensively use renewable packaging materials and recycle such resources.
