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Stamina websites are a way to waste less energy
How many times do we visit a site and then do something else without closing the window? Well, that site continues to exchange data from the server to our computer. It is not expensive to design sites so that they go into stamina mode after a few minutes if there is no browsing. Suzuki’s Italian…
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Why companies think sustainability is a trend in 2022
Sustainable mindset in successful companies According to a global survey conducted by The Harris Poll for Google Cloud, many executives are prioritizing sustainability at their companies. Executives also said they are looking to invest more in sustainability and technology than in any other area this year, though they confess that they are not quite sure…
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The Great Beauty called Earth
“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” – William James I doubt that Oscar-winning director P. Sorrentino meant to refer to planet Earth in his award-winning masterpiece ‘The Great Beauty’, but the definition is so apt that I can think of no other. As humans continue striving to reach higher peaks,…
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ESG reporting in the future
The deadlines are as follows: January 1, 2022 All in scope companies need to report the proportion of their turnover, Capex, Opex, AUM (for asset managers) or Green Asset Ratio (for banks and credit institutions) that is Taxonomy-eligible. Eligibility is merely an indication that a company makes money in an activity that can be tested…
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How much an email pollutes?
As reported by the BBC, the carbon footprint of an email is 4 grams of CO2. However, if it contains very heavy attachments, it can be as much as 50 grams per email. In one year, a typical consumer who uses email for work can emit 135kg of CO2 equivalent. As the UK newspaper points…
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Search engines and web pages CO2 impact
The forecasts for the future are not positive: according to the Iet, Institution of engineering and technology, consumption is expected to double between now and 2025. On the one hand there is the consumption generated by the manufacture of devices such as smartphones, computers and the servers themselves, and on the other the energy they…
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Greenwashing or not greenwashing? The answer is in the data
ESG reporting frameworks Today the landscape of sustainable funds classified with article 8 and 9 of SFDR is vast and disorganized. The managers of these funds complain about the lack of accurate information about the assets on their portfolio. This is such a big problem since they have to report the emissions caused by the…
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Millions of tons of CO2 : Websites are the invisible enemy of climate change
What is the environmental impact of visiting a website?Did you know that every action we take on the web has an environmental consequence? 70% of all CO2 emissions generated by websites come from user devices, while 25% come from data transmission and 5% come from data centers. This means that every action performed on the…
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What sustainability means for software
The impact of the software is increasing every day but ESG reports don’t show it. We use software at any time of day, on any device, even ones we probably don’t know about, like refrigerators, washing machines, or even intercoms. But how much software is really optimized to avoid wasted energy? At the moment there…