For the fourth consequential year TeliaSonera is the number one telecom operator in the Nordic Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP). Globally TeliaSonera ranks among the telecom sector’s five leaders.

Additionally this year, TeliaSonera is featured in CDP’s Nordic 200 ‘Carbon Disclosure Leadership Index’ (CDLI). The CDLI is an index comprising of 20 companies within Nordic stock exchanges, regardless of industry sector, which have displayed the most professional approach to corporate governance in respect of climate change disclosure practices.

TeliaSonera has worked actively with carbon reduction and energy efficiency since the 1990’s and has reported on its environmental strategies and progress through CDP, since 2003.

- This is a result of TeliaSonera’s perseverance in focusing on environmental work, finding smart solutions to reduce emissions and the importance on data management and reporting, says Minna Pajala-Hammar, Head of Corporate Responsibility in TeliaSonera. Our efforts to minimize the environmental impact shall be one of the characteristics’ of TeliaSonera, wherever we operate, since we are convinced that it is important for our customers and thus also for our future business success.

About Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) and Carbon Disclosure Leadership Index (CDLI)
Globally CDP represents 534 institutional investors with 64 trillion USD in assets under management, providing an evaluation tool for institutional investors. The Nordic Leadership Index in 2010 comprises 20 constituents of the Nordic 200 Index based on analysis of the responses to CDP 2010 questionnaire, which focused on greenhouse gas emissions, emission reduction targets and risks and opportunities associated with climate change.