Green is the new yellow

When you’re building products that are designed to help reduce carbon emissions by eliminating unnecessary travel, it’s important to consider the environmental impact of creating those products in the first place.

That’s why we measure the carbon footprint of our products against the carbon emissions potentially saved by using them. In 2019, an external consultancy* conducted an environmental life cycle assessment of our Jabra PanaCast camera. The report analyzed the materials used, the manufacturing process, distribution, and energy consumption, to determine PanaCast’s climate footprint.

* “Climate footprint of a video meeting using Jabra PanaCast and comparison to face-to-face meeting” – 2.0 LCA Consultants for GN (2019)

As a global company, we know that our impact extends far beyond these four (virtual) walls. That’s why we’ll only work with suppliers who uphold the UN Principles of Responsible Business.

We carry out annual audits with suppliers, with particular emphasis on the following areas:

Suppliers that fail, or only pass conditionally, are given a chance to improve. But we don’t take it lightly; if they aren’t able to meet our high ethical standards, we simply won’t work with them.

Building electronic devices requires the use of certain materials to make them work. Currently, our products contain tantalum, tin, tungsten, and gold, all of which can be considered conflict minerals if they originate from mines controlled by military groups.

We require any supplier we work with to exclude conflict minerals originating from mines in military-controlled regions, and to be able to clearly demonstrate how they’re doing this. At the same time, we’re using the five-step due diligence guidance laid out by OECD* to enforce a strict audit program across every part of our value chain, to ensure your new headphones don’t come with a heavy conscience.

*The five-step due diligence guidance is described in “OECD Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Supply Chains of Minerals from Conflict-Affected and High-Risk Areas”