spiked issues

Environment

Mobile phones

O2 and corporate responsibility

Environment and sustainability

Policy commitments

Ethical and environmental practices

O2 Corporate responsibility report 2006, Environment

In the News

To cancel out the CO2 of a return flight to India, it will take one poor villager three years of pumping water by foot. So is carbon offsetting the best way to ease your conscience?, The Times (London), 28 August 2007

Tracking carbon through your phone, BBC News, 22 August 2007

All eyes on the next bug, Sydney Morning Herald, 18 August, 2007

Greenpeace wants phones recycled, Computer Active, 10 August 2007

UK Phone mountain ‘worth a billion quid’, The Inquirer, 7 August 2007

Mobile Industry Rejects Recycling Time Bomb Claims, PC World, 30 July 2007

Phone mast allergy ‘in the mind’, BBC News, 25 July 2007

Recycling mobile phones good for your wealth, Computer Active, 21 March 2007

Environmental campaign groups

We’re in this together

Friends of the Earth

Mobile phone recycling

O2 Recycling

What happens when you recycle your mobile phone?, Fonebak

Government

Telecommunications: Mobile phones, health and the environment, Department for Trade and Industry

Greener choices, Direct.gov

The Stern Review on the economics of climate change

The Review in full

The Review at-a-glance

spiked on the Stern Review