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Discard your data to protect our planet :
How minor changes can make major differences
An estimated 3.7 % of global greenhouse emissions are caused by our electronic devices , data and Internet usage , and it looks set to only increase . Marco Fanizzi , Vice President and General Manager EMEA at Commvault , explains how companies need to evaluate their data and discard data which is no longer needed by the business .
With our global impact continuing to grow and increasingly damaging the planet , it is essential that we take stock and reassess our actions . Politicians , activists and charities have been warning us for years to reduce our carbon footprint in order to protect our planet . It ’ s time we listen .
The decade of 2010 – 2019 was the warmest ever recorded . 2019 was the second warmest year on record , while 2020 was the hottest year ever recorded in Europe . Carbon dioxide levels today are the highest they ’ ve been for 800,000 years .
The three-week virtual conference , held in June 2021 , for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change indicated the urgency of the situation . Despite the delayed www . intelligentcxo . com
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