Planet under Pressure
The 2020s are the make-or-break decade for Sustainability. But Covid-19 questions almost everything. How can we handle increasingly frequent shocks? What can a resilient society and economy that is in line with planetary boundaries look like? These and many other questions are discussed in the new 2020 edition of the Global Goals Yearbook titled “Planet under Pressure”. The Yearbook supports the UN Sustainable Development Goals and is one of the publications in strong international demand.
The 2020s are the make-or-break decade for Sustainability. But Covid-19 questions almost everything. How can we handle increasingly frequent shocks? What can a resilient society and economy that is in line with planetary boundaries look like? These and many other questions are discussed in the new 2020 edition of the Global Goals Yearbook titled “Planet under Pressure”. The Yearbook supports the UN Sustainable Development Goals and is one of the publications in strong international demand.
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E.ON IS MAKING THE<br />
INTERNET MORE<br />
SUSTAINABLE<br />
Digitization is integral to business and everyday life. The volume of data processed by data<br />
centers is growing continually, which increases electricity consumption as well as carbon<br />
emissions. But E.ON is showing how data centers can become more efficient and sustainable.<br />
Its innovative solutions help customers make their data centers greener.<br />
By Ilke Rangette, E.ON Business Solutions<br />
Digitization – from cloud services and cat<br />
content to streaming and cryptocurrencies<br />
– accounts for a big part of (business)<br />
life. But it has drawbacks: As data centers<br />
process more and more data, they require<br />
immense amounts of electricity. This leads<br />
to higher costs as well as higher carbon<br />
emissions, which contribute to global<br />
warming. The Berlin-based Borderstep<br />
Institute for Innovation and Sustainability<br />
calculates that data centers in Germany<br />
used almost 13 billion kilowatt-hours<br />
of electricity in 2017, about as much as<br />
a major city such as Berlin. No end is in<br />
sight. The Shift Project, a think tank in<br />
Paris, expects global energy consumption<br />
for digitization and related technologies<br />
to increase by 9 percent annually.<br />
Unlike a home or office computer, servers<br />
cannot simply be switched off. To ensure<br />
uninterrupted data flow, data centers<br />
operate 24/7. Nearly all the electricity<br />
they consume is converted into heat. This<br />
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Global Goals Yearbook 2020
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