Discover the carbon footprint of the most widely used digital platforms in 2021

1. Digital
carbon
footprint.
Discover the carbon footprint of the most
widely used digital platforms in 2021.
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2. Internet accounts for
3.7% of the global
GHG emissions.
of the Earth’s habitants
are internet consumers.
○ 63.2%
of CO2 produced per
internet user per year.
○ 400g
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3. Google.
Web browser.
searches per second
on Google.
○ 47,000
of CO2 equivalent
emitted every minute.
○ 564 kg
emits at least 0.2
grams of CO2.
○ 1 search
Every minute the equivalent
of the production of 25
T-shirts is emitted.
○ 25 t-shirts
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4. Tiktok.
Social Media.
Tiktok is the most
polluting social network.
○ Nº 1
of CO2 emitted by a single
person every minute on Tiktok.
○ 2.63 g
downloads of the app,
ahead of Whatsapp.
○ 3 billion
Video content is the
most polluting content.
○ Only video
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5. Netflix.
Streaming platform.
tonnes of CO2
emmitted every year.
○ 24,000
Netflix subscribers
worldwide.
○ 208 million
Watching one hour of
netflix emits 55 g CO2.
○ 1 hour
is equivalent to
82.5 g CO2.
○ 1 film
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6. Digital Carbon Footprint
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Let’s stop
assuming that digital
is always green.
It is time to start
being conscious of
“on the net”.