Standardizing Carbon Assessment Across the Industry

Learn how the cloud computing industry can align on standardized carbon assessment methodologies in this 35-minute panel discussion featuring sustainability leaders from Microsoft, Meta, and Fraunhofer Research Institute. Explore the critical need for unified Product Category Rules (PCRs) and Lifecycle Assessment (LCA) standards as cloud services expand and datacenter environmental impact grows. Discover current challenges with fragmented carbon accounting practices across the industry and examine collaborative efforts to establish cross-industry standards that make carbon assessments more credible, comparable, and actionable. Gain insights into how standardized frameworks can enable smarter decisions in design, procurement, and operations while accelerating progress toward net-zero goals. Understand the role of PCRs in guiding LCAs for quantifying carbon footprints of devices, infrastructure, and services, and participate in forward-looking discussions on how unified carbon assessment approaches can drive collective environmental impact in the datacenter and cloud computing sectors.