Sustainability
We are conscious of the world around us.
Committed to reducing our carbon intensity
Throughout our operations, we have adopted strategies to minimize Verizon’s environmental impact and drive greater efficiency.
Our success to date in reducing carbon intensity has been made possible by copper-to-fiber migrations, investments in green energy, building improvements and changes in our fleet operations.
Having exceeded the goal we set in 2009 to reduce our carbon intensity by 50% by 2020, we have set a new goal to cut our carbon intensity in half over 2016 levels by 2025.
Helping customers reduce carbon emissions
Verizon’s connected solutions – from telematics to smart meters to remote patient monitoring – help our customers save energy and reduce their carbon emissions. We work with the Carbon Trust to measure the yearly reduction in carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) emissions our customers are achieving through the use of our products and services.
We set a new goal that by 2022, Verizon’s networks and connected solutions will save more than two times the amount of global emissions that our operations create. This work supports United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 8, decoupling economic growth from emissions and promoting resource efficiency.
In 2017, our solutions enabled:
Total gross CO2e emissions avoidance of
7.7M MT of CO2e emissions is equivalent to removing
CO2e emissions avoidance enabled by our solutions offset
Verizon Recycling Rally - NFL and Houston Zoo 2017
Verizon expects to collect over 4M pounds of electronics for recycling by 2020 at community and employee recycling rallies.
