Telus Named North America’s Most Sustainable Telecom

Telus has been ranked the most sustainable telecommunications company in North America by TIME Magazine and Statista.

The recognition comes from the 2025 World’s Most Sustainable Companies list, which highlights 500 companies globally out of more than 5,000 reviewed. Telus ranked 83rd on the list.

American telecoms such as AT&T ranked 471, T-Mobile at 304 and Verizon at 345.

Telus also touted its other recent sustainability awards: Corporate Knights’ Best 50 in Canada, Newsweek’s World’s Greenest Companies, and a Schneider Electric Sustainability Impact Award.

The company’s environmental work that helped achieve this distinction includes:

• Planting over 20 million trees across Canada since 2000, in partnership with reforestation groups. In 2024 alone, eight million trees were planted to help restore 5,300 hectares of land.
• Diverting 15 million electronic devices from landfills, including four million mobile phones reused or recycled since 2005.
• Phasing out older copper internet lines, with 99% of eligible customers now on PureFibre, which the company says is 85% more energy efficient than traditional copper networks.
• Recycling copper to help cut greenhouse gas emissions by 9,300 tonnes—the equivalent of removing about 2,000 cars from the road for a year.

“These four important recognitions from TIME Magazine, Corporate Knights, Newsweek and Schneider Electric reinforce our organization’s global leadership in social capitalism,” said Jill Schnarr, Chief Social Innovation, Communications and Brand Officer, Telus, in a statement to iPhone in Canada.

As for other Canadian telecoms, Rogers was ranked 402, while Cogeco ranked 274. Bell’s parent BCE is ranked 183, but in the Media, Services & Entertainment category, and not under telecommunications.