Ericsson compiled our 2006 Corporate Responsibility Report by taking into consid­eration the Global Reporting Initiative G3 Guidelines, which were released in late 2006.

The voluntary GRI guidelines are designed to provide a uniform way of benchmark­ing sustainability reporting among companies worldwide. Ericsson chooses to apply the GRI as one tool for systematically reporting on our performance as well as a way to provide extended information and data that is of interest to our stakehold­ers. We have been using the GRI as a guide in our annual corporate responsibility reporting since 2001.

Part of our GRI reporting has been reviewed by PricewaterhouseCoopers.

For its 2006 Corporate Responsibility reporting, Ericsson is evaluating the value of assurance to stakeholders by assuring two of our key quantified performance indicators; the supplier CR performance results in our risk based projects for two commodity areas, and the energy efficiency improvements made for our WCDMA and GSM radio base stations in accordance with the targets that were set for 2006. The assurance statement from PriceWaterhouse Coopers can be found to the right in a pdf file. More information on the two performance indicators can be found at:

Raising The Bar
Energy Lean