Establishing your sustainable IT emission baseline

Now that we have established an emissions table, you are ready to create a sustainable IT emission baseline and simulate your target state. To do this, you need an accompanying book resource, Sustainable IT Playbook – Emissions Calculator.xslx, which can be downloaded from www.SustainableITPlaybook.com. It would help if you used this resource as a reference to establish your own sustainable IT emission and simulate your target state.

Establishing the emission baseline and simulating your target state follows a seven-step process. Each process step has a logical sequencing, so the recommendation is to follow along stepwise.

This process is outlined in the following diagram:

Figure 10.10 – Emission calculation – a seven-step process

Let us take a closer look at each step in the process in detail.

Introduction

This tool aims to help you get a rough estimation of your emissions...