Year: 2023
Type: article
Abstract: In today’s scenario emissions of carbon dioxide and methane areca increasing day by day, leading to climate change. The aim of this paper is to explain carbon dioxide emissions through e-mail conversion. As an average spam email, a standard email, and an email with ‘long attachments’ emits 0.3g CO2e (carbon dioxide equivalent), 4g CO2e and 50g CO2e, respectively. The number of emails received by a common office worker is 121 and half of them are spam. The carbon footprint of emails received in a day is similar to 1,652 g CO2e. And those one year- received emails emit 0.6 tons of carbon dioxide. The carbon footprint of an Indian’s entire year is around 1.5 tons CO2e. So, three average workplace staff members yearly receive emails to exceed their carbon footprint for all the activities of another human for a year. An email with attachments releases 50g CO2e, that is an equivalent quantity as if one had used 5 plastic bags. So, overall, this paper shows how much carbon dioxide is emitted by an e-mail and how it works.In today’s scenario emissions of carbon dioxide and methane areca increasing day by day, leading to climate change. The aim of this paper is to explain carbon dioxide emissions through e-mail conversion. As an average spam email, a standard email, and an email with ‘long attachments’ emits 0.3g CO2e (carbon dioxide equivalent), 4g CO2e and 50g CO2e, respectively. The number of emails received by a common office worker is 121 and half of them are spam. The carbon footprint of emails received in a day is similar to 1,652 g CO2e. And those one year- received emails emit 0.6 tons of carbon dioxide. The carbon footprint of an Indian’s entire year is around 1.5 tons CO2e. So, three average workplace staff members yearly receive emails to exceed their carbon footprint for all the activities of another human for a year. An email with attachments releases 50g CO2e, that is an equivalent quantity as if one had used 5 plastic bags. So, overall, this paper shows how much carbon dioxide is emitted by an e-mail and how it works.
Language: English
Topic: Green IT and Sustainability
Subfield: Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Field: Engineering
Domain: Physical Sciences
SDG: Climate action
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4386123789