
CSRD: A telco burden or opportunity?
The Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) rollout is set to reshape the sustainability landscape for EU businesses. We explore the main challenges and opportunities it presents for telcos.

The Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) rollout is set to reshape the sustainability landscape for EU businesses. We explore the main challenges and opportunities it presents for telcos.
Scope 3 represents the bulk of telcos’ greenhouse gas emissions which arise from operators’ upstream and downstream activities and are the hardest to address. In this report, we present three steps that telcos can take to successfully measure and curtail their value chain emissions.
Telcos should embrace sustainability not just as a PR goal, but as a new heart to their purpose and strategy in the Coordination Age. By doing so they can unite and motivate employees, customers, investors and partners, and reignite growth and innovation.