By Enterprise Innovation Staff | Jun 11, 2008

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Network equipment vendor Nokia Siemens Networks aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from its network base station by 28% by 2012.

The target is one of its climate change commitments made when it joined the WWF Climate Savers program, the company said.

As well as cutting its base station CO2 footprint by 28% over the 2007 level, NSN will also trim energy consumption of its buildings by 6% by 2012 and boost the use of renewable energy in both production and office facilities by 50% by the end of 2010.

The avoided carbon emissions would amount to approximately 2 million tonnes of CO2 annually, NSN said.

Energy consumption from the deployed base stations was NSN's main indirect source of CO2 footprint, it said.

The company's targets are to reduce the energy consumption of its GSM and WCDMA base stations to the level of 650W and 300W respectively.

"It is important to demonstrate that it is possible to run a profitable business while minimizing the impact on the environment of its products and own operations, and we want to be upfront and transparent in our actions," said Juha-Erkki Mäntyniemi, head of environmental affairs at NSN.

Sixteen companies are members of the WWF Climate Savers program. Between them they have committed to cutting total CO2 emissions by at least 14 million tonnes by 2010.