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A - Company Name *
B - Email *
C - Which of these categories better represents your ICT activity? *
- Please specify *
D - Where are your company Head Offices located? *
E - How many employees are in your company (FTE)? *
F - Number of employees in the ICT area *
If you are an ICT company then indicate the total number of employees
G - What is the main use of ICT in your company? *
H - What is your company´s annual turnover? *
I - Are there any incentives in your Country to use sustainable ICT services? *
- List them here *
J - Are you aware of ICT carbon footprint calculation methodologies? *
K - Do you use ICT carbon footprint methodologies? *
The activities are considered for a period of 1 year.
- Before starting an assessment, we invite you to consider some basic elements to better define the scope of the activities that will be covered with the present calculator. In particular, whether you are an ICT organisation or not will impact the answer to some questions, e.g. on commuting and business travel. In addition, if there are various sites within the organisation, it may be important to determine which ones are covered or not in the data provided here. Do not hesitate to provide such information in the text box below, to keep it in mind when reviewing the results.
Hardware inventory (excluding internal servers)* Value required to continue the assessment.
1 - Which of the following types of equipment do you use in your organisation? *
1.1L - How many laptops do you use in your organisation? (provided by the organisation) *
For each laptop considered, the following life cycle stages are assessed: - Production and transportation of the laptop - Use of the laptop - End of life management of the laptop. Please consider only the laptops provided by the organisation (excluding BringYourOwn).
1.2L - What is the average lifespan of a laptop used by your organisation? *
In the tool, the evaluation of the carbon and energy footprint is based on a one year period. The lifespan of the equipment is used to scale the overall impact of the production, transportation and end-of-life of the laptop to one year.
1.1D - How many desktops do you use in your organisation? *
For each desktop considered, the following life cycle stages are assessed: - Production and transportation of the desktop - Use of the desktop - End of life management of the desktop. Please consider only the desktops provided by the organisation (excluding BringYourOwn).
1.2D - What is the average lifespan of a desktop used by your organisation? *
In the tool, the evaluation of the carbon and energy footprint is based on a one year period. The lifespan of the equipment is used to scale the overall impact of the production, transportation and end-of-life of the desktop to one year.
1.1T - How many tablets do you use in your organisation? *
For each tablet considered, the following life cycle stages are assessed: - Production and transportation of the tablet - Use of the tablet - End of life management of the tablet. Please consider only the tablets provided by the organisation (excluding BringYourOwn).
1.2T - What is the average lifespan of a tablet used by your organisation? *
In the tool, the evaluation of the carbon and energy footprint is based on a one year period. The lifespan of the equipment is used to scale the overall impact of the production, transportation and end-of-life of the tablet to one year.
1.1S - How many smartphones do you use in your organisation? *
For each smartphone considered, the following life cycle stages are assessed: - Production and transportation of the smartphone - Use of the smartphone - End of life management of the smartphone. Please consider only the smartphones provided by the organisation (excluding BringYourOwn).
1.2S - What is the average lifespan of a smartphone used by your organisation? *
In the tool, the evaluation of the carbon and energy footprint is based on a one year period. The lifespan of the equipment is used to scale the overall impact of the production, transportation and end-of-life of the smartphone to one year.
1.1P - How many printers do you use in your organisation? *
In the tool, the evaluation of the carbon and energy footprint is based on a one year period. The lifespan of the equipment is used to scale the overall impact of the production, transportation and end-of-life of the printer to one year.
1.2P - What is the average lifespan of a printer used by your organisation? *
Only part of the impact from the production, transportation and end-of-life stages is considered.The ratio is determined as the average time of use in a year among the total printer lifespan (the appropriate terminology is "the impact is allocated following a time-based criteria").
1.3P - What is the average number of pages printed per working day? *
The number of pages printed per working day is used to calculate the average time of use in a year, as well as the quantity of paper and cartridge used in a year.
E.g. 10 pages per day per staff, so 150 pages per working day for an organisation with 15 employees.
Internal Servers (used for data management)* Value required to continue the assessment.
2 - Do you have servers at your organisation? *
2.1 - How many servers do you host within your organisation? *
"Local server" refers to internal servers hosted within the physical boundary of the organisation which may be used for storage, computing purposes, etc. The following life cycle stages are assessed: - Production and transportation of servers- Use of servers, including the related cooling system (energy consumption and fugitive emissions)- End of life management of servers
Various categories of servers exist: e.g. blade-, rack-mounted or pedestral servers.Therefore a server may house various blades or racks.The value provided here accounts for the number of servers, not blades or racks.
2.2 - What is the average usage of your local servers? *
Depending on the number of hours of use of local servers in a year, the energy consumption for the servers and the related equipment (e.g. cooling system) will vary.
For a 24/7 scenario: 8,760 hours in a year. For a 8/5 scenario: 2,080 hours in a year.
- Average usage *
2.3 - What is the average lifespan of a local server used within your organisation? *
In the tool, the evaluation of the carbon and energy footprint is based on a one year period. The lifespan of the equipment is used to scale the overall impact of the production, transportation and end-of-life of the server to one year.
2.4 - What is the Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) of the local server used within your organisation? *
The Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) is one of the indicators most used to reflect on the energy efficiency of a data centre, or local server rooms. It compares the total energy consumption of the room (including cooling system etc.) to the energy consumption of the IT equipment. Although it may be complex to have access to such data for the servers located within your organisation, the PUE remains a critical indicator - in the present assessment - in the calculation of energy consumption for local servers.
The average PUE value of data centres is between 2.00 to 2.53, according to sources.The energy efficiency of a data centre is likely to be optimised in comparison to internal servers.The default value is therefore 2.53.
2.5 - Which type of refrigerant is used in the server room? *
A refrigerant is a fluid used in cooling systems, e.g. to cool server rooms.The use of refrigerants generates fugitive air emissions, which have an impact on climate change, among others.
The main refrigerants used in server rooms are usually R134a and R410a.
2.6 - What is the quantity of refrigerant fugitive emission during the reference period of the assessment (can be estimated by the quantity of the refrigerant recharge done)? *
The quantity of annual refrigerant fugitive emissions is usually estimated by the quantity of refrigerant recharge in the year.
Data management performed with external resources* Value required to continue the assessment.
3.1 - Please indicate the total volume of data exchanged with outside the organisation (e.g. email sent, files downloaded) in a day *
The total volume of data exchanged with outside the organisation involves further energy consumption, from transmission networks and external data centres, among others.The answer provided to this question is used to calculate the carbon and energy footprint related to these data exchanges, whether the external servers are used for storage, computing purposes etc.
Some examples of average data exchanged: - Video streaming (depending on the video quality): from 180 to 600 MB/hour - Standard web browsing: 1 MB/page -The average person using email daily would usually consume in the region of abut 200 to 300 megabytes of data per day - 5 people could use half a gigabyte.
3.2 - How many physical servers are used? *
3.3 - What do you use the above external resources for? *
3.4 - How many virtual machines do you use? *
Commuting and business travel of ICT staff* Value required to continue the assessment.
4 - In the preliminary questionnaire, you indicated the following number of employees involved in the ICT area in your organisation, in Full Time Equivalent (FTE). Please correct it here if needed: *
Commuting is included in the present assessment, for the total staff of your ICT department or ICT organisation.The following questions refer to the staff going to work by car, public transport or foot / bike. For the remaining staff (i.e. the difference between the total staff and the staff using one of the means of transport below), an average commuting scenario is used.
4.1 - Among the total staff of your ICT department (or ICT company), how many are coming to work by car? *
The number of staff going to work by car is multiplied by the average daily distance by person to calculate the total impact from car commuting.
4.2 - Average daily km by car for one FTE: *
Average daily km covers the commute to and from the place of work.
4.3 - Among the total staff of your ICT department (or ICT company), how many are going to work by public transport? *
The number of staff going to work by public transport is multiplied by the average daily distance by person to calculate the total impact from public commuting. An average scenario is used for public commuting.
4.4 - Average daily km by public transport for one FTE: *
4.5 - Among the total staff of your ICT department (or ICT company), how many are going to work by foot or bike? *
The carbon and energy footprint related to commuting by foot or bike is considered nil.
4.6 - Commuting transport means is unkown for the following staff of your ICT department: *
This is the number of staff for which the means of commuting transport is unknown, or not covered by one of the means of transport listed above.An average commuting scenario is used for these remaining staff.
4.7 - How many (one way) intercontinental business plane travels occur in a year on average for the ICT staff? *
Business travel by plane is included in the present assessment, for the total staff of your ICT department of ICT organisation only.For each category of plane travel considered, the calculation is based on the number of plane travels in a year, and the average distance per travel.
1 way = 1 travel. 1 way & back = 2 travels.
4.8 - Default distance used for one intercontinental plane travel: *
4.9 - How many (one way) continental business plane travels occur in a year on average for the ICT staff? *
4.10 - Default distance used for one continental plane travel: *
4.11 - How many (one way) national business plane travels occur in a year on average for the ICT staff? *
4.12 - Default distance used for one national plane travel: *
4.13 - How many (one way) business train travels occur in a year on average for the ICT staff? *
Business travel by train is included in the present assessment, for the total staff of your ICT department of ICT organisation only. The calculation is based on the number of train travels in a year, and the average distance per travel.
4.14 - Default distance used for one train travel: *
4.15 - What is the total distance travelled by car for business purposes for the ICT staff in a year? *
Business travel by car is included in the present assessment, for the total staff of your ICT department of ICT organisation only. The calculation is based on the total distance travelled by car in a year.