Environmental friendliness and bleeding edge mobile phones don’t always go hand-in-hand, but Nokia is trying to change all that by teaming up with the WWF Climate Savers programme.

Now, before you get visions of Hulk Hogan and Jake “The Snake” Roberts stomping carbon emissions, we are of course referring to the World Wildlife Fund. Nokia has pledged to boost energy efficiency and slice its CO2 output at the same time – and it’s starting with its chargers.

Most phone chargers chew up power even when they’re not hooked up to your mobile – it’s called “no load” mode – but Nokia’s new high-efficiency puppies use a mere tenth of the electricity of the average charger when connected to the mains but not on charging duties. Of course, it’s better that you don’t use no load at all, so by the end of the year all Nok handsets are going to give you a signal when they’re fully charged – just a little reminder that you should be flicking off the power switch.

Aside from that, the firm is also promising to use green energy to power half of its facilities by 2010 (the figure is currently 25 percent), plus reduce its overall power needs by 6 percent by 2012.

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