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Tools for Calculating the ICT Footprint of Organisations: Adaptation of a European Study

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Information Systems (EMCIS 2022)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing ((LNBIP,volume 464))

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In the face of global warming caused by greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, the IT industry is responsible for 3–4% of global carbon dioxide emissions. Organisations aiming for a green IT strategy need to do more than just improve their environmental impact. Carbon footprinting is a valuable decision support tool that allows organisations to measure and communicate the environmental impact of their activities. To do this, they need tools that can calculate, track and report their greenhouse gas emissions and guide actions to reduce and offset these emissions. The aim of this article is to present a specific tool for calculating an organisation’s digital carbon footprint, called WeNR Light. It is directly based on the WeNR2021 study.

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  1. IT, Image, Interaction Laboratory (L3I), University of la Rochelle, 17000, La Rochelle, France

    Guillaume Bourgeois, Kassandra Bigot, Vincent Courboulay & Benjamin Duthil

  2. EIGSI, 17041, La Rochelle, France

    Guillaume Bourgeois, Kassandra Bigot, Vincent Courboulay & Benjamin Duthil

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Bourgeois, G., Bigot, K., Courboulay, V., Duthil, B. (2023). Tools for Calculating the ICT Footprint of Organisations: Adaptation of a European Study. In: Papadaki, M., Rupino da Cunha, P., Themistocleous, M., Christodoulou, K. (eds) Information Systems. EMCIS 2022. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 464. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-30694-5_21

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