Ready for the environment
Not someday, but now
We’ve been committed to greater sustainability for over 20 years and will continue to be so in the future.
Our goals for 2025
Completely climate-neutral company
We’re reducing our direct CO₂ emissions by over 90% compared to 1990.
1 million tonnes of CO₂
Annual savings with customers. We empower our customers to save CO₂ with climate-friendly solutions.
More information on our sustainability goals can be found here.
What we have achieved so far
For decades, we have been committed to a better environment and have laid the foundation for climate-friendly and innovative solutions with a powerful ICT infrastructure.
Since 2010
100% green energy
Since 2010, we have sourced 100% of our electricity from renewable energies. This means that we cover our electricity needs in an entirely environmentally friendly way.
Since 2010
87 solar installations in Switzerland
Our photovoltaic plants produce around 3 million kWh of electricity from solar energy annually ‒ equivalent to the energy consumption of around 800 Swiss households.
Since 2020
Climate-neutral operation
Since summer 2020, we have been operating our infrastructure, such as data centres and office buildings, in a climate-neutral way.
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Since 1990
How we’re committed to
a better environment
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How a company can
become climate neutral
Our solutions are climate neutral
Smart Business Connect
With Smart Business Connect you use a virtual telephone system in the Swisscom Cloud and thus help reduce CO₂.
Smart ICT
With Smart ICT you get a flexible overall package for Internet, telephony, network and IT services and reduce your CO₂ emissions at the same time.
DCS Dynamic Computing Services
With DCS you only pay for the IT resources you actually use. This massively improves your energy balance compared to using in-house servers.
What does climate-neutral mean?
Our network and our products are climate neutral: they do not cause greenhouse gas emissions and therefore do not impact the climate. We are reducing reduce CO₂ emissions to a minimum and offsetting unavoidable emissions with climate protection measures.
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To our goals
«Since 1990, we have reduced our CO₂ emissions by 80%, and we want to be at 95% by 2025.»
Saskia Günther
Head of Corporate Responsibility Swisscom
Want to find out more about sustainability?
Contact us.