Sending and receiving unnecessary emails, leading to carbon dioxide emissions?

It is pointed out that recent changes in global warming, etc. are threatening life and the natural environment, and efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions including carbon dioxide are urgent. Meanwhile, Ovo Energy, an energy company based in the UK, claims that 16,000 tons of carbon dioxide are emitted annually through unnecessary e-mail transmission and reception.

Email is a useful means of communicating with people far away, but many of them are simply polite emails or just a few words of appreciation. According to a survey conducted with expert help, OboEnergy said that in the UK alone, 640,000 emails are actually being sent and received.

In the survey, 49% of respondents said they actually send emails they don’t need to coworkers or friends every day. The interaction of e-mails is believed to be helpful for rest during work and deepening relationships, but OboEnergy said that the amount of carbon dioxide emitted by e-mail transmission and reception is by no means negligible.

OboEnergy pointed out that if all British people could reduce the number of unnecessary e-mail writings once a day, they could reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 16,433 tons per year. This is equivalent to the annual carbon dioxide emissions of 83,152 one-way tickets from the UK to Madrid, or 3,334 diesel vehicles running a distance.

The research team at Lancaster University in England, who cooperated with the investigation of erroneous energy, admits that this analysis is a combined estimate. However, it is true that sending and receiving emails actually consumes a lot of power and is driving CO2 emissions. When sending e-mails, the computer uses electricity, but if you press the send button and send it to the network, power is also required to run the network. The data center cloud that stores email is said to emit huge amounts of carbon dioxide.

In terms of global CO2 emissions, the CO2 emissions by email can certainly be insignificant. Nevertheless, this analysis argues that realizing that small elements in life lead to carbon dioxide emissions can be an opportunity to start acting. Related information can be found here .