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Bell - Retail in Action

From support for mental health and protecting the environment, to accessibility and privacy, Bell is investing in society for a better tomorrow. Read more about Bell for Better.

Bell's initiatives include:

Powering our network with renewable energy for sustainable office buildings, Bell’s award-winning leadership in environmental protection includes a wide range of innovative programs. It also extends to how we work with our suppliers, and helps our customers meet their own environmental objectives when they choose our products and services in place of travel, or to manage their business.

Our environmental initiatives and accomplishments include:

  • Achieving greenhouse gas emissions reductions by 2030 in line with the Paris climate agreement and the Science Based Targets initiative. Our first milestone is to achieve carbon neutral operations (scope 1 and 2) in 2025.

  • Reducing fuel consumption and greenhouse gas emissions by modernizing our fleet and adding thousands of electric vehicles.

  • Achieving our objective to reduce e-waste from consumer electronic devices – we exceeded our goal to collect 7 million used TV receivers, modems, mobile phones and Wi-Fi pods between January 2021 and the end of 2023.

  • Delivering resilient, energy-efficient fibre networks for our wireline and wireless customers across Canada.

  • Ranking as the most sustainable telecommunications company in the world on the Corporate Knights 2024 Global100 list.

  • Supporting World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and their Regenerate Canada program through the Bell Blue Box program at our retail locations. Each year we donate the net proceeds from the value of thousands of recycled mobile phones to this important environmental initiative.

  • Continuing to be one of Canada’s Greenest Employers for the eighth consecutive year, as recognized by MediaCorp.

  • Being the first communications company in North America to have its environmental and energy management systems certified to the relevant ISO standard.

  • Providing transparent analysis of the effect climate change is having on our business and of our climate-related performance in our Climate action report.

  • Creating a Sustainable Financing Framework and issuing our first Sustainability Bond – a financial instrument that will help transparently fund eligible green and/or social projects.