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This document describes a methodology, tools, techniques, and best practices to reduce digital services' environmental impacts. This document also explains the important steps to be addressed when gathering requirements, designing (functional and technical), implementing, running, maintaining and decommissioning a digital service that can help reduce environmental impacts.
Digital services typically include servers, networks, terminals (Desktop or laptop computers, tablets or smartphones), and software.
As evidence of the consequences of human activity on climate, earth resources, and earth sanity become more and more visible, It is important to make efforts to reduce as much as possible the environmental impacts of various products and services produced by mankind.
There are a number of publications that demonstrate the consequences of digital services on environment, including greenhouse gas emissions, abiotic resources depletion or acidification. Studies on impacts of emails, video streaming, network usage, storage explosion, to name a few are numerous.
Examples of digital services are (non-exhaustive): Searching for a trip on a train transportation system, booking a hotel ticket, paying an invoice online, booking an appointment, watching an online video, performing an administrative task ...
As far as digital services are concerned, based on today's knowledge on their impacts, it is possible to include, at design, implementation, production, maintenance and decommissioning stages, methodological, technical and measurement tools to limit those impacts. This standard proposal aims at gathering all known best practices, methodological, technical and measurement tools to help organisations produce and operate ecofriendly digital services.
An increasing number of small and large companies announce stances in favor of SDGs and the will to reduce the environmental impacts of their activities, including those of the digital services they provide to their customers. Such companies are in need of guidelines identifying ways to reduce these digital services’ environmental impact.
The ecodesign approach (Best practices and indicators) ensures efficiency in the usage and consumption ratio. This would have a direct impact on the sobriety of consumption of computing resources (servers, networks, storage).
By following the best practices of ecodesign, lighter digital services tend to offer a better and faster user experience; they also tend to allow a broader access to users with older devices and/or low bandwidth.
More importantly, lighter digital services won’t compel end-users to prematurely change their devices for more powerful ones, therefore enhancing the lifespan of the devices they already possess.
Based on French AFNOR SPEC 2201, it is now necessary to bring this work to a worldwide standard that organisations can rely upon to produce such services and demonstrate that they take environmental concerns into account in their projects.
This document is intended for all people and entities involved in digital services and aims to be. It, therefore, endeavours to be simple and precise
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