Use cases
Carbon.txt makes sustainability data easier to discover and use on the web. It's is a single, discoverable location on any web domain for public, machine-readable, sustainability data relating to that company.
Here's some practical ways you can put to carbon.txt to use in your own organisation.
- Green hosting providers can use carbon.txt - how we’re using carbon.txt, in combination with our Green Web Dataset. We cover why sharing evidence of green claims data inside a carbon.txt file has the potential to positively impact organisations disclosing data and the digital sustainability sector as a whole.
- Using carbon.txt with the Technology Carbon Standard - how carbon.txt can be combined with the Technology Carbon Standard (TCS) to create greater transparency in the field of digital sustainability. We cover how we collaborated with the sustainability team at Scott Logic, the driving force behind TCS, to simplify digital estate emissions reports through developing an initial TCS Schema.
- Making sustainability reporting more transparent and discoverable - B-Corp certified digital agency Torchbox adopted carbon.txt to link to their yearly Impact Reports, their Sustainability Policy, and information about their website’s digital emissions - ensuring transparency, and making it possible for automated tools, partners, clients - anyone, to discover their sustainability data easily.
- Using carbon.txt with CSRD reports - how carbon.txt can be used to share Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) reports and find specific sustainability data points within them.