How does streaming affect the environment?

Question

I always see posts about how streaming emits CO2 and has a high carbon footprint but I don’t actually understand how that happens.

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Answer 1

Streaming doesn’t have a high carbon footprint. The international energy agency says [contrary to a slew of recent misleading media coverage, the climate impacts of streaming video remain relatively modest](https://www.iea.org/commentaries/the-carbon-footprint-of-streaming-video-fact-checking-the-headlines). As of 2019 *the average carbon footprint of streaming a half-hour Netflix show was equivalent to driving around 100 metres in a conventional car*. [Netflix claims by the close of 2022, it will achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions.](https://about.netflix.com/en/sustainability)