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Sarah Ward

Cop climate summit websites ‘produce more carbon than average sites’

Cop26 president Alok Sharma speaks during the event in Glasgow in 2021 (Jane Barlow/PA) - (PA Archive)

Websites promoting the Cop climate summits hosted by the UN produce around seven times more carbon than average websites, according to researchers.

Around 3% of emissions are now attributable to the internet but the carbon footprint of official Cop host country websites is still significantly higher than the average webpage, an Edinburgh College of Art study found.

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