Climate crisis – live: Email carbon footprint ‘not a worry’ while activists protest Biden hiring oil figure
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A report published in the FT yesterday claimed officials involved in preparations for next year’s UN COP26 climate change summit have been “looking at research suggesting that if you reduced those emails by just one a day, you would save a lot of carbon”.
But experts have said otherwise. Prof Chris Preist, a researcher of sustainability and computer systems, told The Independent: “People should not worry about their email footprint too much because they only have a small effect on it and it’s a relatively small part of their own footprint.”
Meanwhile, climate activists rallied yesterday outside the Democrat’s headquarters in Washington DC in protest of Joe Biden’s early hires of key staff with connections to the oil and gas industry.
Politicians including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez marched alongside protesters. AOC, as she is commonly called, said at the rally: “We’re going to organise and demand that the Biden administration, which I believe is decent and kind and honourable, keep their promise.”
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