New research from Australian telco Belong has revealed only around 8% of Australians realize mobile data contributes to carbon emissions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is despite mobile data networks in Australia causing in excess of an estimated half a million tonnes of CO2 every year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As a result Belong has become Australia\u2019s first accredited carbon neutral telecommunications provider \u2013 with all operations and services certified \u2018carbon neutral\u2019 at no extra cost to its customers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Belong CEO, Ben Burge, said the organization is dedicated to helping Australians understand their \u2018carbon thumbprint\u2019, arming the general public with easy steps to help reduce their emissions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cMore than half of Australia\u2019s CO2 emissions are a product of energy use \u2013 either directly or as an output from the products and services we use. We don\u2019t see the physical and tangible process which cause these emissions. Therefore, awareness around carbon usage is understandably very low,\u201d said Burge. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In a bid to raise awareness, Belong has launched its Carbon Thumbprint campaign including the Carbon Thumbprint App <\/em>where consumers are able to easily calculate their mobile data carbon effect. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe point of the campaign is to make it easier for people to contribute positively to the environment. By switching to an accredited carbon neutral provider, consumers are turning an everyday habit into a positive change and the app helps them get there,\u201d said Burge. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" New research from Australian telco Belong has revealed only around 8% of Australians realize mobile data contributes to carbon emissions. This is despite mobile data networks in Australia causing in excess of an estimated half a million tonnes of CO2 every year. As a result Belong has become Australia\u2019s first accredited carbon neutral telecommunications provider […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":524,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,22,23,35,55,37],"tags":[76,318,317,116,316,151],"class_list":["post-523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-verticals-energy","category-industry-verticals-government","category-green","category-more-news","category-oceania","category-regional-news","tag-australia","tag-carbon","tag-green","tag-mobile","tag-telco","tag-telecommunications"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=523"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":525,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523\/revisions\/525"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}