Environment

Reducing our impact on the environment

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Our targets

In addition to reducing our own environmental footprint, we also engage with employees, customers, and suppliers to be more environmentally conscious. To allocate its resources efficiently, CETIN Group has prioritized energy efficiency and climate change, waste management, and the circular economy as focus areas for its environmental strategy. We plan to formalize Group-wide strategy in one overarching policy, articulating our commitments and environmental goals, to allow for effective implementation. For this report, we have collected relevant environmental data from across the Group.

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Set SBTi target by 2024

We will actively support our holding company PPF TG set a SBTi target within the next 8 months for both Scope 1 + 2 and Scope 3 emissions. Our support will ensure once SBTi targets are set, they will be met.
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Ambition to reduce emissions by 40 % in Scopes 1 and 2 by 2030

We will prepare a comprehensive program to enable us to reduce greenhouse gases emissions with primary focus on increasing purchases of clean and low emission-intensive energies. We will also invest in energy efficiency equipment such as technology modernization, power supply, and cooling.
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Progressively reduce electricity consumption reaching 30 GWh savings annually by 2025

We will also invest in energy efficiency solutions and equipment such as technology modernization, power supply, and cooling, allowing us to save substantial amount of electricity consumption.
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Reuse, resell or recycle 100% of decommissioned network equipment by 2025

We will ensure that all our decommissioned network equipment and other network waste will either be reused, resold, or recycled to ensure no such waste ends in landfill or in incineration.

Progress highlights

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Set SBTi target by 2024

Our holding company PPF Telecom Group has publicly committed to set near-term company-wide emission reductions in line with climate science with the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) and we are taking a key role in this commitment. We have evaluated feasibility of meeting SBTi targets, including steps necessary for validation of these targets by SBTi once they are submitted.
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Ambition to reduce emissions by 40% in Scopes 1 and 2 by 2030

The Group purchases renewable energy certificates covering 100% of electricity powering the network in Serbia. CETIN Bulgaria concluded a 10-year power purchase agreement (PPA) with Electrohold, Bulgaria´s leading renewable energy trader - delivering already 21 GWh of renewable electricity in 2023 allowing CETIN Bulgaria to source more than 80% of electricity from renewable resources from September 2023.
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Progressively reduce electricity consumption reaching 30 GWh savings annually by 2025

We are running a robust energy efficiency program that is, as of 31.12.2023, already delivering approximately 17,4 GWh annual saving in electricity consumption. These savings are reached through initiatives such as smart cooling, power saving features implemented in our RAN networks and replacement of technology for more energy efficient.
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Reuse, resell or recycle 100% of decommissioned network equipment by 2025

We have updated guidance on treatment of decommissioned network in Serbia assuring that we always seek the reuse of equipment we have dismantled. Only if we cannot find secondary purpose of use, we allow to opt for resell or, as the last instance, recycling. In parallel, we are working on analogical guidance in other countries where we operate.

Impact stories

Follow our steps towards sustainability and carbon neutrality
The independent network infrastructure operator CETIN Bulgaria has finished the installation of photovoltaic systems on its data centers (DC) in Sofia and Plovdiv. A system with an expected annual yield of 178.5MWh has been added to the roof of Serdika DC, and a 47.617MWh system now helps power Trakia DC in Plovdiv.
Yettel Bulgaria and CETIN Bulgaria have signed a 10-year power purchasing agreement for the supply of electricity from renewable sources with Elektrohold. The electricity will be provided by a 123MW photovoltaic plant, due to be completed in the spring of 2023. The overall management of the purchase and realization of the supply will be carried out by the leading trader Elektrohold Trade. The company is part of the Electrohold Group, owned by the largest public holding in Bulgaria – Eurohold.
CETIN Czechia offers from April 2023 a new tariff that brings even faster connections to users of fiber connections. The newly introduced 2000/1000Mbps tariff allows downloads and uploads at twice the speed of the former tariffs. It was designed especially for customers who work intensively with cloud applications and need to transfer large volumes of data with the highest available speeds.

Documents for download

Download the detailed ESG Report and read about our goals
Environmental management
CETIN RS 14001 2015 eng
CETIN HU 14001 2015 en
CETIN CZ 14001 2015 en
CETIN BG 14001 2015 en
CETIN RS Environmental protection policy
CETIN CZ Politika EMS cz
CETIN HU environmental policy of cetin hungary zrt
CETIN BG enviromental policy EN
Energy management
CETIN HU 50001 2019 en
CETIN CZ 50001 2018 en
CETIN CZ Politika EnMS cz