For a company, digitalisation means more than just optimising processes and making work easier for employees. It is an indispensable factor in reducing your own ecological footprint and making a contribution to climate protection. Although, of course, digital processes also consume energy and therefore resources. „If the internet were a country, it would have the sixth largest electricity consumption in the world.“ Greenpeace published this finding back in 2017, and the energy consumption of the internet today is probably even higher. At the same time, however, it is also much easier to make digital processes climate-neutral: The energy required can be generated sustainably, fossil raw materials can be replaced and much more.
CO2-Equalisation
With Climate Partner we design our website to be climate-neutral. This enables us to improve our CO2balance and realise the first steps towards becoming a climate-neutral company. This not only takes into account the energy consumed by our website through hosting in a data centre. Factors over which we have no influence are also taken into account, such as the energy consumption of the users of our website - energy for data transmission and the consumption of the user's end devices.
By taking external factors into account in this way, the project supported by Climate Partner enables us to minimise our CO2-emissions appropriately.
More information on our CO2-compensation can be viewed in our digital certificate:
Climate protection project in the DR Congo
The project sponsored by Climate Partner for CO2-The Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is protected and conserved by the project. The project prevents illegal logging and the overexploitation of numerous natural resources. At the same time, active work is also being done on the infrastructure. The construction of a hydroelectric power plant supplies the local population with electricity. As a result, the people are no longer dependent on charcoal from illegal tree felling. This also protects endangered mountain gorillas, whose home is the Virunga National Park and which are among the most endangered animal species in the world.
Detailed information on the project can be found on the Climate Partner website.
