{"id":8502,"date":"2023-11-15T13:33:01","date_gmt":"2023-11-15T12:33:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/?p=8502"},"modified":"2023-11-15T13:33:01","modified_gmt":"2023-11-15T12:33:01","slug":"the-environmental-reality-of-streaming-audio-and-video-is-high-carbon-emissions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/2023\/11\/15\/the-environmental-reality-of-streaming-audio-and-video-is-high-carbon-emissions\/","title":{"rendered":"The environmental reality of streaming audio and video is high carbon emissions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\"><span>As companies work to reduce their carbon footprint, there&#039;s one area they may not have even considered \u2013 their digital consumption. <\/span><span>The internet is a major polluter, accounting for two to four percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, on par with the aviation industry. <\/span><span>The average person streams an average of five hours of content per day, resulting in the release of up to 1.57 million tons of CO2 emissions, or 0.57 billion tons per year. <\/span><span>In response, companies are pioneering efforts to minimize the carbon footprint of streaming audio and video, demonstrating that technological advancements can be consistent with environmental responsibility. (<em>Cate Lawrence<\/em>)<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As companies work to reduce their carbon footprint, there\u2019s one area they may not have considered \u2013 their digital consumption. The internet is a major polluter, accounting for two to four percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, on par with the aviation industry. The average person streams an average of five hours of content a day, leading to [\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-8502","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\/8502","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=8502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}