Sustainability for telecoms is a journey without end
Thursday, May 20, 2021 at 1:46PM ADVA has set itself ambitious carbon emission reduction targets. The policy serves its long-term business interests, it says, as doing nothing will be very costly.
ADVA became, in 2019, only the fourth company in Germany to achieve approval for its emissions target to limit global warming to 2oC above pre-industrial temperatures.
Klaus GrobeLast year ADVA adopted more stringent emissions targets to limit global warming to 1.5oC, with the Science-Based Targets initiative (SBTi) organisation approving its programme.
Trimming half a degree centigrade may sound minor but the resulting targets become far more challenging, says Klaus Grobe, director, sustainability at ADVA.
“Since there are massive non-linear physical processes in the background, that leads to massively more aggressive reduction targets,” he says.
If ADVA’s 2019 targets required a 20 per cent reduction in emissions from its car fleet and electricity needs, now they are to be reduced to a third by 2032.
“It’s a huge step,” says Grobe.
