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Fairphone is the first company to pilot Fairmined Gold credits
Fair Materials 13 April 2023
Through our Fairmined gold credits pilot with Alliance for Responsible Mining (ARM) we celebrate multiple wins alongside contributing to the social and environmental progress of the Fairmined certified mining cooperative La Gabriela in Colombia. Win for responsible miners: Since 2016, Fairphone has been working hard to connect responsible ASM gold to ...
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Sticking with Cobalt Blue
All 02 March 2023
A call upon the industry to engage more – not less! – in ASM cobalt mining. Seven years after Amnesty International’s report “This is what we die for”, cobalt mining in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is again in the headlines, with a focus on the continuous dangers and ...
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Key information for Fairphone Crowdfunders and the Investment
Investor Relations 30 January 2023
These documents help you better understand the risks, costs, and returns of the investment. Crowd Notification AFM information document AFM informatiedocument – Dutch Subscription Agreement Fairphone BV – annual report 2021 including signed auditor’s report
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An Update on Fairphone 2
All 09 January 2023
Well friends, it is time. *Cue the music* After an unprecedented seven years of supporting our beloved Fairphone 2, we will finally stop software support for the Fairphone 2. After March 2023, we will no longer deliver software updates for the Fairphone 2. This is an incredibly bittersweet moment: the ...
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A message from our CEO
News 22 December 2022
Dear all, I’m reaching out to share some tough news with you. It’s something that’s been weighing on my mind, and – led by one of our core values – it’s important to be transparent about it. We recently discovered that two employees privately received commission payments from a third-party ...
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Five years of responsible gold
Fair Materials 22 July 2022
For the past five years, Fairphone has been an active participant in a broad coalition within the Dutch gold sector aimed at ensuring greater respect for human rights, the environment and biodiversity in the gold value chain. This “gold covenant” was spearheaded by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs ...
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Fairphone Easy: a smartphone subscription for a fairer future
All 15 June 2022
UPDATE: Unfortunately, due to various reasons, Fairphone Easy has been suspended indefinitely from April 2024 onwards. While we still believe very strongly in the concept, it does not make business sense for us at the moment. Keep reading to learn more about the initiative and what it meant for ...
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Taking it step by step: An update on the Fairphone True Wireless Earbuds
Product 10 March 2022
Since day one, we’ve been leading the push to empower consumers with viable alternatives to the make-use-dispose trend in electronics. Keeping products in use longer decreases their environmental footprint, therefore easy repairability of products is essential. No surprise that Fairphone fully supports the Right to Repair. It’s a huge ...
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Digging deep for responsible aluminum
Fair Materials 09 December 2021
You probably don’t think about aluminum a lot. We do – it’s one of our 14 focus materials. But we really dug deep when we decided the Fairphone 4 was going to have an aluminum case rather than plastic. And it turns out, aluminum is really interesting. Start with this: ...
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