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Political parties and their websites’ carbon emissions in 2025
After measuring Dutch political parties their websites in 2023 and in 2021, I figured I would do the same for the general elections of 2025. Unlike other years where I only measured their carbon emissions, this year, we also measured key accessibility markers in both their websites and party programs (PDF files). I couldn’t have
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Political parties and their websites’ carbon emissions in 2023
Websites output CO₂ emissions, just like everything else in our world. This is an unavoidable fact of life on which we have no influence. What we do have an influence over, is exactly how much CO2 emissions our websites have. Last elections, I decided to take our political parties to the test. The results were
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Political parties and their websites’ carbon emissions in 2021
With the 2021 Dutch general election coming up soon, I decided to take a look at the websites of all 37 participating parties to compare their carbon emissions. The internet is vast and uses huge amounts of energy – around 3% of global electricity, in fact. Many websites are not optimized to use as little