Raspberry Pi Partners with UNDO to Offset the Carbon Emissions of Its Single-Board Computers

Raspberry Pi's doubling of the RAM in the Raspberry Pi 5 wasn't the company's only announcement today: it has also unveiled a partnership with UNDO to provide optional carbon removal credits for buyers of its single-board computers.

"We're proud of the low environmental impact of Raspberry Pi computers. They are small and light, which translates directly into a small upfront carbon footprint for manufacturing, logistics, and disposal," Raspberry Pi co-founder Eben Upton claims. "With an idle power consumption in the 2–3W range, and a fully loaded power consumption of less than 10W, replacing a legacy x86 PC with a Raspberry Pi typically results in a significant reduction in operating power consumption, and thus ongoing carbon footprint. But while our upfront carbon footprint is small, it is not zero."

It's this quest for net zero that has led the company to unveil a partnership with UNDO, on the same day it launches the Raspberry Pi 5 16GB single-board computer. Environmental organization UNDO, the companies explain, crush silicate rock and spread it across agricultural land in order to enrich the soil while simultaneously pulling carbon dioxide from the air. "Because silicate rocks are the most abundant on Earth," the companies say, "enhanced rock weathering has the ability to rapidly scale to permanently remove billions of tonnes of carbon dioxide every year."

To help UNDO in its mission, and to offset the carbon emissions of its own operations, Raspberry Pi has launched carbon removal credits as a product. Priced at $4, each credit represents support for the removal of 6.5kg of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere — an estimate matching the emissions involved the manufacture, shipping, and disposal of a single Raspberry Pi 5.

The carbon removal credits are available to order at selected Raspberry Pi resellers now, with more information available on the Raspberry Pi website.