#questiongreen: Which of these digital terminals has the highest carbon footprint (including manufacturing and lifetime use)? 📱⌚️
🏁 The#iPhone12 and the#iPad8, ex-aequo, with around 70 kg CO2eq (1)!
📊 Some key info on the carbon footprint of #Digital in the World and in France :
🌍 World - digital accounts for nearly 4% (2) of global GHG emissions in 2018 (by comparison, air travel accounts for 2% (3))
🇫🇷 France - GHG emissions linked to the Digital sector amount to 15* Mt #CO2eq (i.e. nearly 2% of France's carbon footprint).
🔍 In detail, the Digital sector's carbon footprint breaks down as follows (4):
➡️ 55% for #terminal #manufacturing 📺 💻 📱 (including computers 19%, TV 11% and #smartphones 11%), data center and networks
➡️ 45% for the#use of these terminals and infrastructures 🔌
⚠ What's the outlook for the years ahead?
👉 According to a study carried out for the French Senate (5), #digital-related GHG emissions could increase by 60% in France by 2040, reaching 24 Mt CO2eq, if no action is taken
👉 On a global scale, the Shift Project estimates that the digital sector could account for more than 7% of GHG emissions in 2025 if no sobriety measures were introduced.
✅ Next week, we'll be talking about best practices for reducing your digital carbon footprint 🎯
(1) Source: Apple, assuming a useful life of 3 to 4 years.
(2) Source: The Shift Project, Lean ICT: for digital sobriety, 2018
(3) Source: French Ministry of Ecological Transition and French Civil Aviation Authority (Direction Générale de l'Aviation Civile)
(4) Source: The Shift Project: Deploying digital sobriety, 2020
(5) Source: Study conducted by Citizing, with the support of Hugues Ferreboeuf and KPMGthe French Senate's Committee on Spatial Planning and Sustainable Development, 2020.