Open chrisxie-fw opened 3 weeks ago
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Regarding verification, this is being explored heavily with impact framework. The most obvious way to verify is to just be fully transparent with all your data, that way it's trivial for the end user to be able to check. But we're also exploring ways to cryptography sign a manifest file so trusted 3rd parties can verify deeper. We should leverage the work being done there, as long as the evidence is a manifest file - the tools, technologies and agreements are already being explored and researched by other people.
I think we should make a business case white paper, we can even launch a workshop and invite members to participate.
However, In addition to that, I firmly believe for this label to be a success there needs to be a business around the label. I.e. lots of people need to be making a living creating a SCER label.
I agree there needs to be a strong business case for companies to adopt the SCER label. At the minimum, when companies adopting the SCER label, the Label adds more trust and credibility of environmental consciousness to the company's products and services.
I agree with Chris's design principles for the SCER spec. Here's my perspective on some of his questions:
Executives and CEOs: Displaying SCC in dollars aids strategic decision-making and highlights commitment to sustainability.
Developers and Product Managers: Providing open-source tools and APIs for automatic SCER label generation facilitates integration into existing workflows. This aspect will be a primary focus.
Consumers: The label and QR codes should prioritize end-consumers, as they represent the largest user group for the labels.
Open-Source Libraries: Developing open-source libraries for computing SCI scores and SCC dollars is underway, ensuring accessibility and standardization across implementations. Emphasizing this area is crucial.
Transparent Reporting: Developing a new service to display data is necessary since reliance on other companies to adopt the label and metrics is not feasible. The ideal goal is a uniform metric and label style across different companies and industries over time.
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Here, I'm taking the liberty to share some of the key design principles of the SCER spec that I 've personally been trying to follow:
This is where the original SCER spec leaves room for flexibility to cater for different needs, because some may prefer SCI, CO2ge,SCC, or other measurement units. For example, huggingface uses Energy (tokens/kWh), which could correlate to carbon efficiency because they use their own internal uniform testing/benchmarking environment.
Ease of use: the spec is extremely easy for people to follow, how to keep a balance between spec's rigidness/ completeness/comprehensiveness v.s. simplicity and ease of adoption (easy to understand and follow and implement the spec, etc). Personally in my mind, the food label NutriScore is a great example of striking the right balance between information completeness and intuitive simplicity. As a consumer, I can very easily trust and follow the NutriScore label in making food purchasing decisions.
With the END in mind, working backwards:
Regarding conformance, verification:
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