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Big Tech emissions are worsening climate change


“Big Tech has been accused of using creative accounting to misrepresent its environmental impact for some time.”

Last year investigative journalists with the Guardian found Apple, Amazon, Google, Meta, and Microsoft used some creative accounting to underreport data center related emissions by 662 percent. In fact, research published by Nature Climate Change saw a disturbing trend, as nearly 40 percent of the 1,041 firms they surveyed last year failed to meet or dropped entirely emissions reduction promises made in 2020. All this as scientists at the recent Global Tipping Points conference report we must halve emissions by 2030 to avoid climate related disasters that threaten billions.

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