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- Tech Backbone
During a simulated conference, turning your camera off will do a lot to reduce your carbon footprint, a recent research shows.
The report, published in the 'Resources, Conservation and Recycling' journal, found that switching off your camera during a web call would minimise the carbon emissions of an individual by 96 percent.
Researcher Roshanak "If you just focus on one type of footprint, you miss out on others that can provide a more holistic look at environmental impact," Nateghi, Professor at Purdue University in the US, said, "Roshi".
According to the researchers, streaming video in standard definition rather than in high definition by using applications such as Netflix or Hulu also could carry an 86 per cent cut.
The team measured the carbon, water and land footprints correlated with each gigabyte of information used on YouTube, Zoom, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, TikTok and 12 other networks, as well as online gaming and web browsing for the analysis.
The more footage used in an application, the bigger the footprints, the researchers said, as predicted.
Before the lockdown of Covid-19, the carbon footprint of the internet has already risen, accounting for about 3.7 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions.
Yet analyses on how internet use affects the ecosystem have generally neglected the water and land footprints of internet technology, the researcher said.
These footprints were studied by the researchers and how they could be influenced by increased internet traffic, discovering that the footprints differ not only from one web site to another, but also for nations.
The team obtained data from countries such as Brazil, China, France, Germany, India, Iran, Japan, Mexico, Pakistan, Russia, South Africa, the United Kingdom and the United States.
The researchers find that collecting and distributing internet data in the US has a carbon footprint that is 9% higher than the global average, but water and land footprints are 45% and 58% lower, respectively.
