Goals signal intent and drive behavior. Some companies use public announcements of sustainability goals to signal their commitment to become sustainability leaders and to compete for superior positioning with their rivals. There has never been a convenient benchmarking  tool to allow sustainability executives to put their own goals in the context of their competitors. Until now.

This report provides a quantitative analysis of the sustainability goals of 10 major telecom firms: AT&T, BT Group, Deutsche Telekom, France Telecom, NTT Group, Sprint,Telefónica, Telenor, Verizon Communications and Vodafone. The source of the data used in this analysis is the companies’ latest published sustainability reports. 

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Outline

Key Questions
Key Finding
Goals and Targets Drive Change and Competitive Differentiation
Major Telecoms' Goals Focused on Operations and Product
Wide Disparity in Number of Goals Announced
GHG Emissions and Energy Receive the Most Focus
List of Goals
Sources
Methodology
Related Research

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