Sprint Goes for New Climate Protection Commitments

Sprint (News - Alert) Nextel, a company specializing in offering wireless and wireline communications services to consumers, businesses and government users, has yet again reached an environmental milestone by signing up new climate protection commitments with World Wildlife Fund’s (WWF) Climate Savers program.

This announcement was made by Sprint CEO Dan Hesse at CTIA (News - Alert) to address all scopes of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions through their agreement with WWF.

According to Hesse, their admission into World Wildlife Fund’s Climate Savers program illustrates Sprint’s commitment to making a difference by reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

"Joining the Climate Savers program is an important part of our ongoing climate protection efforts. My hope is that our commitment encourages other companies to follow," he added

There are 28 other companies joining this noble deed and Sprint will be accompanied by IBM (News - Alert), The Coca-Cola Company and Johnson & Johnson. Moreover, Sprint is the only U.S. Company to address all scopes of GHG emissions through the WWF agreement, and it also joins KPN (News - Alert), a Dutch telecommunications company, as the only other partner in the Climate Savers program to commit to such a multifaceted GHG emissions reduction strategy for its own operations, suppliers and consumers.

“We are excited to have Sprint join Climate Savers and we look forward to a fruitful partnership,” said Jason Clay, senior vice president of Markets at WWF.

Clay pointed out that, Sprint’s commitment to reduce emissions beyond their own operations will not only help protect the fragile climate, but also help conserve nature’s resources we all depend on for life.

“This is why we partner with influential, forward-looking companies like Sprint. It’s a powerful way to protect the places and species at the core of our mission.” Clay added.

With this new commitment, Sprint aims to reduce 20 percent of its GHG emissions by 2017. The company has been continuously doing research and also implementing variety of solutions to better measure the effects of its environmental programs and initiatives.