Subscription and network including climate contribution: what exactly does this mean?

Anyone who calls, streams or surfs with Swisscom does so with a climate contribution included – automatically and at no extra cost. But what does that actually mean?

Swisscom has already received several awards as a sustainable company and has been committed to climate protection and the circular economy for years. Swisscom even includes a climate contribution in your subscriptions. That sounds great. But how does including a climate contribution work with subscriptions and the network?

We make a climate contribution by cutting our carbon emissions to a minimum and by investing in certified climate protection projects for the residual CO2 emissions. Find out more at www.swisscom.ch/climate-contribution.

Network with 100% renewable energy

Antennas, servers, data centres: our network needs electricity. At 89%, electricity accounts for the largest share of our total energy consumption. We have been using 100% renewable energy since 2010. Mainly from domestic hydropower and solar energy: with over 100 installations, we generate some of our electricity ourselves. We have the most innovative data centre in Switzerland, which we cool using recirculated air and rainwater. The waste heat is used to heat homes in the vicinity.

Reduced-CO2 devices

These measures enable us to reduce CO2 in our own products, such as Internet-Boxes and TV-Boxes:

• Using recycled materials to manufacture them
• Reducing the energy consumption of our devices (for example with the deep standby mode on the new TV-Box 5)
• Recycling and reusing Internet-Boxes and TV-Boxes

Recycling, repairing and reducing

By supporting the circular economy, we are prolonging the service life of devices. This means that, together, we are saving resources and reducing energy consumption.

• Swisscom Buyback: We buy your old mobile back from you and prepare it to be reused. You receive the buyback value as credit.
• Mobile Aid: Do you have a mobile phone you no longer need? It doesn’t matter whether it works or not: we will turn it into cash and donate the proceeds to SOS Children’s Villages.
• Refreshed Smartphones: We sell low-cost, second-hand mobile phones.
• Swisscom Shop: You don’t need a car to get to our Shops, and we send digital till receipts as standard, instead of printing them out.