There are three great reasons to adopt sustainable IT. 1) Information technology generates as much as 5% of global greenhouse gas emissions. Using the Px³ tools to calculate and reduce IT carbon footprint, customers avoid over 30% IT GHG emissions. 2) Sustainable IT strategies often reduce utility and capital costs as computers become more energy efficient and are replaced less often. 3) New legislation such as CSRD requires companies to report the carbon footprint of capital owned goods. This includes IT such as notebooks, desktops, tablets and monitors. The Px³ reports enable companies to calculate and report the GHG emissions instantly.

Px³ reports and applications are uniquely backed by science. Created during PhD research with the University of Warwick, the results are the most accurate on the planet. In fact, Px3 was the first company in the world to produce end user focused tools of these kind.

Yes, our applications are used by over 1,000 organisations across the globe. IT giants such as Google, Microsoft and ControlUp also use ours tools to help customers model sustainable IT baseline reports and strategies.

The time to produce either a baseline or strategy report averages at around 5-10 minutes. Based on your data input (such as a list of what computers you have) the report will be calculated by our systems and emailed to you as a PDF.

The report contains headline executive summary details including carbon footprint by total and scope such as electricity and supply chain. Plus electricity consumption and cost together with equivalent values such as how many trees are required to remove the resulting carbon from Earth’s atmosphere. The in depth table and graphs that follow concentrate on showing what equipment you have by type (e.g. desktops) and what the average impact is. There is also a section to quickly show which equipment is causing the greatest impact. More detail is included to specifically show GHG emissions, energy consumption and cost and e-waste by computer type. The report can be used as a baseline to understand your organisation’s current impact and/or to comply with CSRD reporting requirements.

The report takes the results from the baseline report and models sustainable IT strategies. These include extending device lifespans organically or using alternative operating systems, plus introducing carbon footprint as a selection criterion. Similar to the baseline report, this strategy report includes a exec summary page follow by detailed tables showing current carbon footprint, electricity consumption, e-waste, utility and procurement costs and the reductions and savings available by implementing each of the 6 proposed strategies.

Compare enables businesses and organisations to introduce carbon footprint as a selection criterion during purchasing exercises. Users can stack rank computers, monitors and displays by carbon footprint and or energy efficiency to help select low carbon footprint devices. As the selection is based upon where your company operates and how long your usually keep computers, the results are tailored especially for you. This means that you can select with confidence and buy your computers via your usual supply channel.