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GRI
indicator | Reporting element
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or website | Extent of Reporting |
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| TA1 | Provide examples of the resource efficiency of telecommunication products and services delivered.
| CR Report P 15-20, P 26, P 27. |  |
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| TA2 | Provide examples of telecommunication products, services and applications that have the potential to replace physical objects (e.g. a telephone book by a database on the web or travel by videoconferencing)
| See: Australia example in Ericsson Corporate Responsibility Initiatives Around the World. | |
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| TA3 | Disclose any measures of transport and/or resource changes of customer use of the telecommunication products and services listed above. Provide some indication of scale, market size, or potential savings. | In Australia an Ericsson study shows that businesses reduced their carbon footprint by up to 17 percent and on average by 5-10 percent with the introduction of nation-wide mobile broadband services.
See: Ericsson Corporate Responsibility Initiatives Around the World.
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| TA4 | Disclose any estimates of the rebound effect (indirect consequences) of customer use of the products and services listed above, and lessons learned for future development. This may include social consequences as well as environmental. | We see no evidence of a rebound effect. To the contrary, Ericsson estimates that societal energy use and CO2 emissions could be reduced by 5-20 percent between now and 2020 through the smart use of ICT. CR Report P 15 and P 16.
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| TA5 | Description of practices relating to intellectual property rights and open source technologies. | Ericsson is committed to open standards. We have been a strong driver in major standardization forums for many years, through all generations of mobile technology. See Research and Development.
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