The South Korean portal operator Naver said that it plans to cut green house gas emissions to zero by the year 2040.
A official from Naver said in a statement:
“As digitalisation is accelerated under COVID-19, greenhouse gas emissions are expected to increase at a rapid rate,”
The company plans to reach the same carbon neutrality goal that the South Korean government is pursuing.
Naver said that 100 percent of the electricity it uses to run its data centres will come from renewable energy. The data centres currently account for 99 percent of the firm’s total carbon emissions.
The company is introducing geothermal energy and eco-friendly cooling systems for its second datacenter office. At its headquarters in Bundang, Gyeonggi Province, and its data center in Chuncheon, Gangwon Province, the company will improve its photovoltaic power generation systems.
About Naver
It is the first South Korean web portal and an online platform operated by Naver Corporation, It was also the world’s first operator to introduce the comprehensive search feature, which compiles search results from various categories and presents them in a single page.
In the year 2017, the Naver search engine handled around 74.7% of all web searches in South Korea and had almost 42 million enrolled users.
More than 25 million Koreans have Naver as the start page on their default browser and the mobile application has 28 million daily visitors.
Naver is also frequently referred to as ‘the Google of South Korea.
