New data from IHS Markit suggests that LEDs are doing an admirable part in reducing global warming: thanks to their efficiency, carbon dioxide emissions of lighting have been reduced by “some 570 million tons” this year. That’s an estimated 1.5 percent reduction of the global carbon footprint.



LED lighting uses an average of about 40 percent less power than fluorescent and 80 percent less than incandescents to produce the same amount of light, according to Fox. He expects the impact of LEDs on the global carbon footprint to become more pronounced as more LEDs are installed around the world.

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