This Thursday marks the fourth and final day of Mobile World Congress, Barcelona’s global telephony trade show. Like every year, the biggest tech companies met there, but ecology is not yet really a subject for them.
With our correspondent in Barcelona, Elise Gazengel
At the world telecom show in Barcelona, few stands talk about green technology. On the FrenchTech side, Dipli equips companies with refurbished digital devices.
” Not many actors who talk about circular economy »
” It is true that unfortunately, there are not many players who talk about the circular economy and who put the fact of using fewer raw materials at the center of their project. But hey, to do refurbished, you also need new ” ironically the commercial director of Dipli Martin Baille.
In the last pavilion of the show, dedicated to start-ups, Saúl García offers companies the opportunity to offset their footprints by buying carbon credits on his TracksCO2 platform. He knows that Europe is soon planning tougher legislation on the subject.
” Here they come to do business »
“ Big companies are the most responsible and have more resources, so why not use them to replant trees! Even if it’s sad that they do it because a law obliges them, we could find an ecosystem lost for a century “, he launches. But the entrepreneur is not fooled: We’re not going to lie to each other, here, they come to do business and that’s it. Some even come by private jet so good... »
Digital already represents 3 to 4% of greenhouse gas emissions in the world and some of the innovations presented at the show require a tenfold increase in current computing power.
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