Higher levels of consumption and wealth do not necessarily increase personal well-being, and an increasing amount of consumers are interested in making more sustainable choices. What role does business play in offering consumers better alternatives via innovation, choice editing and choice influencing? Nokia is transitioning into a solutions provider, and mobile technology innovations hold a potential for changing the way we live, from improving livelihoods to embracing more sustainable lifestyles. Listen to Kirsi Sormunen discuss these topics, packaging, energy consumption, and more.
10. EU consumers pay more for
green products
• European consumers pay a price premium of
46% on average for Green retail products and
25% for food and drink items in 2010
• Green premium will continue to decrease
• European Green retail sales will double in 5
years
• Share of total retail sales to double from 2.5 -
5%
• European households spend ~EUR369 /year
on Green products
Source: Keikoo Co/UK, March 2010
11. Business role in driving sustainable consumption
• Innovation
• Choice editing
• Choice
influencing
Is this less or just
smarter
consumption?
Source: WBCSD
Sustainable
Comsumption Facts
and Trends
15. Dematerialization
Innovation
Nokia Talkman
Choice editing
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17. What makes a mobile device “green”?
Innovation
Choice editing
• Use of recyclable materials
• Low energy consumption: optimized
screen brightness and screen savers
• Energy efficient charger
• Packaging: compact size, reusable
materials, eliminate or minimize use of
plastics
• Avoiding substances of concern
18. Smart packaging – saving money and
reducing CO2
Choice editing
Compact size Chargerless sale
21. Making sustainable choices easy for consumers
Choice influencing
Energy labels Choice editing
Energy Green Explorer:
saving tips Choices & Content Navigation
22. Choice influencing
Eco-tips for consumers
Save energy - Turn off Bluetooth,
WLAN etc. when not using them
Eliminate stand-by energy - Unplug
your charger when the battery is full
Use teleconferences instead of
travelling to a meeting
Let GPS help you find the shortest
driving – or walking - route
Read emails and browse internet
with your mobile device –Uses only 3
% of the energy used by a laptop
Take your mobile phone back for
recycling to save valuable natural
resources!
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24. Raising consumer awareness on recycling
Choice influencing
• Research shows that in order to recycle
used mobile devices people need:
• Information – only 50 % know about it
• Making it easy – >80% would return
their phone
• Nokia makes an effort to collect used
devices
• 5,000 recycling points globally
• Ongoing web campaign and instructions
• Up to 40 local recycling campaigns per
year
• Incentives for consumers in exchange
*) Nokia research 2008 www.nokia.com/werecycle