Understanding Relationship Between Carbon Emissions And Internet Penetration In Order To Promote Environment Sustainability.
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In today’s growing world, everyone wants to retain their competitive edge. With changing consumer requirements there is need to take steps that are focussed on more productivity. But there are repercussions to this. This huge amount of data generated and exchanged on internet has resulted in digital pollution. The aim of this work is to understand consequences of digital pollution. This work used both exploratory and primary survey in order to gain awareness about digital footprint impact on environment. This study will focus on combating digital pollution since it is also major contributor towards global climate change. This is done by forming different hypothesis and application of different statistical methods.
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