Figure 6.

ICT emissions, assuming the 2020 level (adjusted for truncation error) remains stable until 2050, and global CO₂ emissions reduced in line with 1.5^∘C under scenario SSP2-19

Numbers on the blue slope indicate global CO₂ cuts needed relative to 2010 and labels at the bottom indicate ICT's share of global CO₂ emissions in percent. We assume most of ICT's emissions are from CO₂ because a large proportion of its footprint is from electricity consumption and there are no agricultural components. The comparison to CO₂ emissions was chosen because reliable budgets do not exist for GHG emissions at this point.