Websites created for COP climate conference emit 10 times more carbon than average webpage: Study

Websites created for the UN Conference of the Parties (COP) emit up to 10 times more carbon, compared to an average internet page, suggests an analysis of web archives. The study comes during this year's ongoing COP30 in Belem, Brazil, scheduled to go on until November 21.(Bloomberg) Since 2009, pages of the COP website have increasingly used content, including multimedia, that require a higher computing power, researchers from the UK's University of Edinburgh said. The team analysed data from w