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Deutsche Telekom assumes responsibility for environmental protection. Uniform environmental standards ensure that environmental issues are considered and environmentally-friendly behavior is anchored in all processes and in the daily behavior of employees. To this end, the Group has implemented an QHSE (Quality, Health, Safety and Environment) management system in all fully consolidated companies. Internal and external audits are conducted regularly to verify that the requirements of the HSE management system are consistently implemented in the company's day-to-day operations.

Integral part of the QHSE management system is the Group-wide environmental guideline (pdf, 658.0 KB) including environmental issues (such as climate change and energy, the preservation of natural resources, and the protection of water and biodiversity). All fully consolidated Deutsche Telekom Group companies are obligated to apply this policy and necessary measures within the area of their responsibility. The document includes our production operations and business facilities, our products and services, distribution and logistics, the management of waste, requirements for suppliers and contractors and other business partners and also the consideration within due-dilligiences, mergers & aquisitions. The Environmental Guideline summarizes and partially complements existing self-commitments of DT Group.

The Environmental Guideline is approved by the Board of Management. Our Chief Executive Officer (CEO) is responsible for overseeing adherence to this policy and its integration into business management processes.
The Guideline is approved includes the obligation to legal compliance, to environmental laws and regulations. Beyond that we are committed to continuous improvement of our environmental performance and the reduction of our negative environmental impacts. We use key performance indicators (KPIs) to gauge our progress. These indicators help us to effectively steer our efforts while keeping our stakeholders informed of our progress. DT regularly reports the progress in environmental performance and the achievement of the environmental targets within the groups annual CR-report (yearly).

Changes in internal and external stakeholder expectations (e.g. investors, customers, employees) as well as stakeholder feedback are captured through stakeholder communication and dialogues in various formats. With our several stakeholder dialogues formats we not only gather feedback on our environmental performance, we also raise awareness for our environmental management policy and environmental impacts (see also publications on our environmental performance and KPIs).
With the "Youlearn" learning culture initiative, we are continuing to drive forward the further development of our employees. We provide our employees with a powerful training portfolio through the intelligent learning platform "Percipio" (also referred to as the "Netflix of learning") and "Coursera" (provider of digital continuing education courses from top-ranked universities). Over 180,000 Percipio registrations since the third quarter of 2019 confirm our efforts.
Among our wide range of training offers for employees we also provide QHSE trainings, including environmental issues as to understand the impacts of their work activities on the environment (as digital training exercises). Employees and experts of Deutsche Telekom worldwide regularly exchange information and jointly develop a comprehensive QHSE management system.