A clear, actionable standard for measuring and reducing carbon footprints from corporate IT.
IT drives business — and emissions. ITERD gives organisations a practical, auditable way to evaluate, calculate, and reduce IT-related greenhouse gas emissions so sustainability targets become measurable and repeatable.
- Evaluate — Understand where IT emissions originate (hardware, data centers, networks, cloud services).
- Calculate — Use consistent, transparent methods to quantify operational and lifecycle emissions.
- Reduce — Turn measurement into action: optimize operations, extend lifecycles, and influence procurement.
- Operational emissions: Energy consumed during use (powering servers, cooling, network traffic). These are recurring and usually easiest to measure and reduce.
- Lifecycle emissions: Emissions embedded across manufacture, transport, use, and end-of-life of IT assets. These require procurement policies and design choices to address.
- Consistent, sector-focused methodology tailored to IT.
- Enables credible claims and clearer decarbonization roadmaps.
- Practical for internal engineering teams and sustainability officers alike.
IT-specific metrics designed to integrate with and complement:
- GHG Protocol (scopes and emissions categories)
- CSRD / Corporate reporting (material disclosures and audit readiness)
- Other sustainability and regulatory reporting standards — ITERD maps IT data to reportable categories.
- Read the full standard.
- Run a scoped operational inventory.
- Calculate lifecycle hotspots.
- Prioritize and implement reductions.
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Concise, auditable, and designed for action — ITERD focuses IT teams on measurable carbon reductions.