Our contribution to the Sustainable Development Goals
Many of our products, services and activities contribute to achieving the SDGs. We make a particularly major contribution to the SDGs 3, 4, 5, 8, 9, 11, 12 and 13. The assigned value contributions show how useful our efforts to meet the SDG are to us. Every measure that contributes to meeting the SDGs is assigned in the report to one of our five categories: Finance, Structure, Relationships, Employees, and Environment.
To find out what contribution we make for each SDG, click on the individual squares.
End poverty in all its forms everywhere
Our contribution:
By expanding our networks, we create the conditions for economic and social participation, among other things providing access to education - the lack of which is one of the main causes of poverty. We expect our suppliers to pay the minimum wages as set forth in the ILO Convention. We have explicitly formulated this in our Supplier Code of Conduct.
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End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture
Our contribution:
Our efficient Smart Agriculture ICT solutions allow for higher harvest yields while reducing the use of resources such as seeds, water, fertilizers, and energy. What's more, our narrow-band radio communications also help maintain biodiversity.
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Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages
Our contribution:
We promote health with our e-health solutions for the improvement of medical care and a number of health measures for our employees.
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Ensure inclusive and quality education for all and promote lifelong learning
Our contribution:
We invest heavily in the training and development of our approx. 216,000 employees. In addition, we promote the development of media skills. The Deutsche Telekom Stiftung foundation supports a large number of STEM projects.
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Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
Our contribution:
We are committed to the systematic promotion of women in management, supervisory boards and STEM professions. Our employees benefit from a number of different offers we provide to improve their work-life balance.
We expressly expect our suppliers to ban gender discrimination.
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Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all
Our contribution:
Our efficient Smart Agriculture ICT solutions help reduce water consumption and use of fertilizers.
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Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all
Our contribution:
Our integrated climate strategy increases the share of green energy of our total energy consumption.
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Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all
Our contribution:
We are committed to sustainable growth, provide excellent working conditions for our current and future employees and keep working toward a more sustainable supply chain.
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Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation
Our contribution:
We keep pushing the network infrastructure build-out forward and adding more innovative, sustainable products to our portfolio.
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Reduce inequality within and among countries
Our contribution:
We employ adequate measures to connect the unconnected, providing access to the digital world for all.
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Make cities inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable
Our contribution:
Our innovative solutions help shape the transformation of cities into intelligent urban spaces (smart cities).
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Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns
Our contribution:
We continually work on offering more sustainable product solutionsand promoting more sustainable production patterns in the supply chain. At the same time we are committed to avoiding waste and to the recycling of valuable natural resources.
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Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts
Our contribution:
We help protect the climate with measures conducted at the Group(energy efficiency and use of renewable energy) as well as with our sustainable products and services based on our integrated climate strategy.
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Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources
Our contribution:
We help reduce water consumption in agriculture and in private households through the use of ICT.
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Protect, repair and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems
Our contribution:
Our efficient Smart Agriculture ICT solutions allow for higher harvest yields while reducing the use of resources such as seeds, water, fertilizers and energy. We also conduct projects to protect biodiversity. We require our suppliers to protect the environment and use resources responsibly.
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Promote just, peaceful and inclusive societies
Our contribution:
We have clearly expressed our commitment to complying with ethical principles and current legal standards. This commitment has been incorporated in our Guiding Principles and Code of Conduct. We also operate a comprehensive compliance management system. All our activities are compliant with legal regulations and our Binding Corporate Rules on Privacy.
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Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development
Our contribution:
We collaborate with associations, institutions and companies at the national and international levels.