O2 has announced a target to cut carbon emissions from its business and network by 2025 and working with its supply chain to reduce their emissions by 30 per cent in the next five years.

Mark Evans, O2 CEO, said: “Today, we’re putting a stake in the ground. We want to go further and faster, setting the bar in our industry to tackle climate change and build the greenest network for our customers. Every office, every store, every mast. We will get the changes done to be a net-zero business by 2025.”

O2, having already achieved both the Carbon Trust Standard for Carbon, Waste and Water and the Carbon Trust Supply Chain Standard, will accelerate its drive to sustainability whilst also helping its suppliers and other sectors reduce their carbon footprint. This includes work with the UK Smart Metering programme and working with partners to replicate O2’s own saving 20,000 tonnes of carbon over the past eight years through flexible working technology.

O2 plans to switch third party landlords that support the O2 network over to renewable energy, while creating technical and energy transition solutions across its whole business where needed. O2 will also be working with the wider Telefonica Group to implement more ambitious carbon reduction targets to encourage suppliers to accelerate their efforts to reduce emissions.

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