VimpelCom Ltd. is committed to protecting the environment through responsible energy use and the support of programs aimed at protecting the natural beauty of the world around us. As a leading telecommunications company we recognize that we have an impact on the environment and a responsibility towards sustainable development. Some of our key initiatives in each of our business units are as follows:

Asian Caucasus Leopard Rehabilitation Program
Since 2005 VimpelCom Ltd. has been a partner in supporting the first environment-oriented project in Russia, the "Asian Caucasus Leopard Rehabilitation Program".  This innovative program was initiated by experts from World Wild Fund (WWF) and the Russian Scientific Academy, and was approved by Russia's Ministry of Natural Resources and Ecology.

VimpelCom Ltd.’s Ukraine operations employ resource- and energy-saving technologies, and environmentally-friendly systems of heating, air conditioning and ventilation.
• Power efficient lamps are utilized for office illumination, and photosensitive devices are used to turn on/ off outdoor illumination; automatic condensing plants compensate reactive power.
• Ukraine offices are heated by their own boiler house with gas boilers of 92-94% efficiency.
• Smart systems of ventilation and air conditioning are operating based on ozone cooling agents.
• Full-time monitoring of engineering facilities and air parameters in our Ukraine offices
• Full-time bookkeeping of consumed resources (power, gas, water) is recorded with subsequent output study.

In Italy VimpelCom Ltd.’s environmental protection goals regard the planning, installation and operation of fixed and mobile network systems. These activities are widely shared across our Italian operations and involve all staff and top management.

 “TE.SO.RO.” PROJECT
This program includes the development of integrated solutions that use different technologies for rationalizing the consumption of a facility for telecommunications and, at the same time, permitting application technologies utilizing renewable energy sources to help supply all or part of the plant. The project aims, that is, to an optimization of energy consumption of a station for telecommunications and energy production from renewable sources by the use of photovoltaic panels, integrated or not with wind systems and / or CHP, ensuring the ‘efficiency and stability of the energy for its operation.

CO.MO.DO PROJECT
The CO. MO. DO. Project (Collettive Mobility (in) Downtown) is a project that aims to significantly reduce the use of private vehicles for workers’ home-work commuting through collaboration with the Department of the Municipality of Rome and ATAC, the city transportation company.

Universal Charging Solution
The “Universal Charging Solution” (UCS) is a new means of helping customers reduce the environmental impact of our products and services. The UCS is considered one of the industry-wide tools of eco-consumerism and it is expected to reduce energy consumption by 50 percent and eliminate duplicate chargers.