Understand
Understand why and how your software emits CO2
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Understand
Software emits CO2 through it's own operation, by using energy still based on fossil fuels, but also indirectly through the embodied carbon of the hardware reservation. Also modern systems run in datacenters with expensive cooling, land-use etc. - See a deeper dive into the topic in our About section
We use the methodologies based on research and industry standard practices (GHG Protocol / ISO 14001 / Green Software Foundation) and analyse all your infrastructure and identify targets for immediate and later analysis.
Depending on your internal state of knowledge a Consulting or a Workshop/Training is best suitable for you at this stage.
Assessment & Operations
No matter if you have your own software product or just want to quantify the consumption of all your operations, it is necessary to quantify the CO2 emissions in real time.
We integrate our enterprise ready measurement and reporting tools into your infrastructure and help you generate reporting ready and/or marketing ready carbon numbers.
It is important to look at the whole software lifecycle and create carbon metrics for all stages. We employ our enterprise ready tooling for all these stages: Development, Testing, Runtime. For external SaaS solutions we work with accredited databases.
Report
After understanding your digital carbon emissions using them transparently is key.Internally as we as externally.
This begins with creating KPIs internally, setting carbon budgets and bringing it to all team dashboards.
Externally this includes reportings to vendoers, clients and also regulatory bodies.
We help you create reports (Scope 1,2, 3) for European's CSRD, GHG Protocol, Green Software Foundation SCI, ISO 14001 and many more.
Depending on the size of your company it is helpful to first create reportings with internally used accounting tools and switch to real-time reportings and software integrations later.
Optimisation
Driving carbon emissions down is paramount in the whole process of creating a sustainable digital product and infrastructure.
We leverage our tools to generate automated recommendations even for complex software architectures.
By suggesting tailored optimisation concepts to your company and product needs we identify and quantify carbon savings and integrate them with you.
Quick wins can often be gained with minimal effort while long-term goals can often easily attained by employing constant monitoring and constant optimizations with every software build.
Automate
Sustainable software is a continuous process. After the first identification of weak spots and optimization targets we automate the reporting / transparency part through industry standard DevOps practices by integrating our specialized CI/CD pipeline tools (See for example our Eco-CI products for Github / Gitlab or our Cloud Energy tools for arbitrary pipelines as well as our dedicated runners for enterprises).
In a second step we integrate optimizations also directly into the software build-chain through static ode optimizations and also Green AI / ML optimizations.
References
A curated list of organizations we have been working with.
