Today, digital represents 3 to 4% of global greenhouse gas emissions. As our digital uses intensify and terminals multiply, this impact is constantly increasing: the ADEME estimates that data traffic could increase sixfold by 2030, resulting in a 45% increase in the digital carbon footprint. However, the environmental impact of digital technology is not limited to greenhouse gases, and the challenges it raises are numerous: use of rare metal resources, use of water resources, growing electricity consumption, electronic waste difficult to recycle...
Encouraging digital sobriety
Highlight the environmental impact of digital and encourage digital sobriety: this is the purpose of the exhibition proposed by the Ministry to its agents. If it places in its center awareness of the environmental footprint of digital, it is also accompanied by various workshops to limit digital waste: repair, collection of unused terminals... These will be offered a second life by the social and environmental cooperative "The Ateliers du Bocage"a way to reduce the environmental footprint of digital while doing a good deed!
What is Digital Cleanup Day?
Launched in 2020, the Digital Cleanup Day is a global event that aims to enable users to act on their digital environmental footprint. Organized every year on the 3rd Saturday of March, the event must raise awareness of the environmental impact of digital through the organization of awareness actions.
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