Nearly half of the carbon footprint of our digital world has been hiding in plain sight. A landmark study published in January 2026 in Communications Sustainability, a Nature Portfolio journal, analyzed a full decade of global economic data and found that digital industries are responsible for 4.1% of global greenhouse gas emissions—roughly 2,141 million metric tons of CO2 equivalent in 2021. That's a significant number on its own. But here's what makes this finding especially consequential:

We're thrilled to share that the Digital Emissions team was featured at the ASE 2025 Intelligent Software Engineering Workshop in Seoul, South Korea. Our own Josh Rauvola took the stage to present groundbreaking research on the Fair Developer Score