Industry standards for measuring web emissions

The web is an enormous emitter of emissions. It is how we deliver most digital technologies from data centre to device.

Measuring web emissions at useful levels (e.g. organisation, domain, page, journey) has long been a challenge, and most commonly it is simplified to single parameter proxies like emissions per byte of data. But these simplifications have limitations and work is going on in the Green Software Foundation to extend the existing ISO/IEC 20131:2024 standard for Software Carbon Intensity with specific guidance for websites and browser based applications and an ISO standard of its own.

We will hear from the Co-Founders of Root & Branch about the latest developments in web emissions measurement and a demonstration of how they go about measuring websites from end user devices to cloud and web hosting.

As co-chair of the assembly writing the ISO specification for web emissions measurement, Adam will cover progress on standards. Oliver is our local bearded web hero and has designed the world's first measurement-native cloud platform, he will demo how Root & Branch go about automating measuring web emissions from within a web hosting platform.

This talk is a hybrid event. For those joining us in person, we will be filming and photographing the talk and the audience for Q&A sections and social media content. Please speak to the organisers if you have any questions or requirements related to this.

Check out the Green Software Brighton website for links to previous talks.

Arrive from 18:00 for pizza and drinks. Event will start at 18:30. We always head for a drink and a chat locally afterwards too.

Thank you to Runway East for use of their space to host our events and to Silicon Brighton and the Green Software Foundation for supporting us.