We are fresh out of the United Nations Climate Change Conference, also known as COP25, held in Madrid, Spain, from 2 to 13 December 2019. This conference series is a climate meet-up that lobbies for commitments from the world's governments towards ensuring the sustainability of our planet through more concerted efforts in taking care of our environment, with particular focus on emissions as seeded on the Paris Climate Change Agreement at COP21. Most factors of production innately leave a carbon footprint in their wake.
This effect from our daily living and patronage of our favourite apps and platforms often goes unnoticed as the place where the value is created is often far and out of sight in some offshore datacenter. Datacentres consume tremendous amounts of energy and where the source of power is still a fossil fuel, the contribution of our digital lives to climate change can no longer be ignored as more of the world’s populations get online and consume more and more services digitally.
