thegreenwebfoundation / carbon.txt

A proposed convention for making it possible demonstrate that your infrastucture uses green power
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Allowing for supporting documents to existing bodies requesting relevant data #2

Open mrchrisadams opened 5 years ago

mrchrisadams commented 5 years ago

There seems to be no discernible pattern for finding structured information on company websites about their actions relating to environmental or climate responsibility, even when they have invested significant amounts of time making shiny reports like Google has here:

https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-sustainability.appspot.com/pdf/Google_2018-Environmental-Report.pdf

Or when Scout 24 so something worth sharing

https://csrbericht.scout24.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/180418_Scout24_GRI_Chapter_Environment.pdf

Or when they companies share detailed info about their DC use: https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-sustainability.appspot.com/pdf/24x7-carbon-free-energy-data-centers.pdf

Or made submissions to groups like Google's submission to the CDP:

https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-environment.appspot.com/pdf/alphabet-2017-cdp-climate-change-response.pdf

Or when they've made filings inline with the SASB, where Etsy list steps they're taking:

See page 25 in this SEC filing. This stuff is really hard to find!

https://investors.etsy.com/financials/sec-filings/sec-filings-details/default.aspx?FilingId=13261228

Someone who's checking the information in a carbon.txt can reasonably be assumed to care about this too, and making it easier to find.