Written by: Peter Hjorth, Nina Lövehagen, Jens Malmodin and Kent Westergren

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Climate change is high on the global agenda and Ericsson is strongly committed to doing its part by reducing the environmental impact of its operations and by providing sustainable solutions to customers and society. For example, Ericsson is taking steps to decrease the environmental impact of its products by improving their energy efficiency. 

The authors describe Ericsson's work using life cycle assessments (LCA) to understand the total potential environmental impact and performance of its products and services, especially of CO2 emissions. They then present two specific examples of energy-reduction solutions: BTS Power Savings, and the Tower Tube concept for building telecom sites.


Introduction

There is a growing need to measure and calculate the environmental impact of products, systems, and services. Indeed, Ericsson receives frequent requests for this kind of information from a variety of stakeholders, such as customers, investors and analysts. Life cycle assessments are a useful measurement technique for understanding the relative significance of a product or system's environmental performance - in particular, CO2 emissions, which contribute to global warming.

Ericsson is actively working to reduce the energy consumption of its products, in part because this reduces CO2 emissions, and in part because it results in lower operating costs.

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