ISO/IEC 21031:2024

Information technology — Software Carbon Intensity (SCI) specification ISO/IEC 21031:2024

Publication date:   Mar 22, 2024

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60.60 Standard published   Mar 22, 2024

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ISO/IEC JTC 1 Information technology

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35.080   Software | 13.020.40   Pollution, pollution control and conservation

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This document describes a methodology for calculating the rate of carbon emissions for a software system; that is, its SCI score. The purpose of this score is to increase awareness and transparency of an application's sustainability credentials. The score will help software practitioners make better, evidence-based decisions during system design, development, and deployment, that will ultimately minimize carbon emissions. A reliable, consistent, fair and comparable measure allows targets to be defined during development and progress to be tracked.

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ISO/IEC 21031:2024
60.60 Standard published
Mar 22, 2024

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