In IT, the operation and production of the devices drives the climate balance into the negative. Anyone who procures new things with care protects the climate in the long term.
IT procurement has an effective lever for improving the company’s carbon footprint: computers, laptops, servers and other information technology devices leave an enormous CO₂ footprint in production, from raw material extraction to delivery. Companies often overlook this when setting climate targets and instead only focus on the company’s energy consumption.
Thanks to the constant improvement in energy efficiency, the ratio of CO₂ emissions in the production and use of desktop PCs has shifted such that both areas are responsible for the climate impact in roughly equal shares. Even with larger monitors, the relationship between production and use is roughly balanced.
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In the case of laptops and other mobile devices, the CO₂ emissions during production are even significantly higher than the emissions caused by electricity consumption during use; The same usually applies to smaller monitors.
