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The United Kingdom’s Carbon Trust has been working with leading Information and Communication Technology (ICT) companies to develop guidance on measuring Green House Gas emissions across the life-cycle of ICT assets and services. When the guidance is published as an extension to the World Resources Institute (WRI) Greenhouse Gas Protocol, which is anticipated for May 2012.
The draft ICT Sector Guidance is, now, available for public comment until 10 April 2012 with an open invitation to visit the GHG Protocol website in order to download the draft chapters at http://bit.ly/sActof
The draft guidance is structured with an Introduction Chapter and seven other subject specific chapters. Each chapter is available to download as a separate document as follows:
| Title | Size |
| GHG Protocol ICT Sector Guidance Feedback Form |
349 KB |
| Chapter 1: Introduction and General Principles |
1.55 MB |
| Chapter 2: Telecoms Network Services |
1.28 MB |
| Chapter 3: Desktop Managed Services |
1.28 MB |
| Chapter 4: Transport Substitution |
1.01 MB |
| Chapter 5: Cloud and Data Center Services |
639 KB |
| Chapter 6: Hardware |
907 KB |
| Chapter 7: Software |
856 KB |
| Chapter 8: Data Centers |
649 KB |
All comments should be directed to Benedict Buckley at bbuckley@wri.org or before the deadline (10 April 2012)
Following submission of comments on 10 April 2012, the Working group will…
- Review comments and revise guidance: April 2012
- Issue a second draft of the ICT Sector Guidance for final public comment: late April 2012
- Finalize and publish guidance: May 2012
This is important international work with the opportunity to influence the future of commonly accepted set of global principles and methods for footprinting ICT products and services. I will be reporting on this initiative in a later post.
In the meantime, your comments are awaited…