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IFA 2009: “We want to produce more devices, but consume less energy as a result”
Toshiba, in its IFA2009 press conference, has pledged to cut its CO2 emissions by 120 million tonnes before 2025. The company says that it wants environmental measures to “take a very very strong role” in the company’s future.
Consumer electronics plays a larger role in global CO2 emissions than many people realise, because much of the manufacturing process is based in the Far East. Even though your television might have a hard-off power button, saving electricity in your home, it’s still been flown or boated across the world from a factory belching pollution into the sky.
Toshiba has partially addressed that problem – saying that it wants to reduce the physical quantity of raw materials in its products – making televisions 30% lighter – and making those materials easy to dispose of.
It’s also got the usual bevy of energy saving options on its products – local dimming and the aforementioned hard-off power switches on televisions and eco settings for laptops.
Greenpeace currently ranks Toshiba midrange in its rankings of tech companies – seventh in its list behind competitors like LG, Sony, Philips and Samsung. Perhaps this new announcement will help it move slowly up the list.
