{"id":2895,"date":"2023-05-09T20:24:18","date_gmt":"2023-05-09T18:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/?p=2895"},"modified":"2023-05-09T20:24:18","modified_gmt":"2023-05-09T18:24:18","slug":"digital-carbon-footprint-measurement-for-further-improvement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/2023\/05\/09\/digital-carbon-footprint-measurement-for-further-improvement\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital carbon footprint: measuring for further improvement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"georgia\"><span>Among all the technological innovations that are transforming our world, there is\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.enel.com\/investors\/sustainability\/strategy-sustainable-progress\/digitalization.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>digitization<\/span><\/a><span> one of the most important for environmental efficiency and sustainability: it is estimated that digital technologies can help reduce global greenhouse gas emissions by 20 %.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span class=\"georgia\"><span>On the other hand, the production of computing devices, the raw materials used and the energy consumed also have an impact on the environment: this is the so-called digital carbon footprint, which corresponded to 2 % of total global emissions in 2015 and 4 % in 2020. These figures are undoubtedly smaller than the amount of emissions saved by digitalization, but they are still increasing: at the current pace, the percentage could increase to 8.5 % by 2025 and 14 % by 2040. <\/span><\/span><span class=\"georgia\"><strong><span>Reducing our digital carbon footprint is possible with electricity produced from\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><strong><span>renewable resources<\/span><\/strong><span>\u00a0, but also through solutions from information technology itself \u2013 for example, companies that move to the cloud significantly reduce their emissions.<\/span><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among all the technological innovations that are transforming our world, digitalization is one of the most important for environmental efficiency and sustainability: it is estimated that digital technologies can help reduce global greenhouse gas emissions by 20 %. On the other hand, the production of computing devices, the raw materials used and the energy consumed also have an impact on the environment: this is the so-called digital carbon footprint [\u2026]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uhlikova-stopa"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}