“Travel” Articles

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Nokia’s environmental team has rolled out its third video of the ‘Easy To Be Green’ campaign. This time the focus is on travel, or unnecessary travel for that matter. Attending meetings overseas can be costly, not only to the company but also to the environment. To put it into perspective, if only ten percent of the one billion plus Nokia users used their mobile phone for video conferencing instead of traveling to meetings overseas, we could avoid over 79 million tons on CO2 emissions per year. Check out the video after the jump to see what impact a single trip overseas has on the environment.