Climate footprint of a video meeting using Jabra Panacast and comparison to face-to-face meetings

The hotspot analysis shows that the use phase, and internet traffic in particular, dominates the total climate footprint of the Jabra Panacast. Focusing on the contribution of the Jabra Panacast equipment itself, except for its use, the main contributing components are the cast aluminium, the polycarbonate resin, and the USB cable, which point to potential improvement actions under the direct influence of the GN Group.

The Jabra Panacast performs better than face-to-face meetings, except when the nodes are situated very close to each other. Even a non-optimised use (two nodes of two participants) in the region where internet has the largest climate footprint (India) yields low break-even distances of 30 and 16 km for train and air travel, respectively. For any other use and/or region scenario, the break-even distances would be lower. In any case, no scenario yields realistic distances to be covered by air travel, and so we conclude that the Jabra Panacast will always perform better than a face-to-face meeting where the participants travel by air.