Greenethiquette provides guidelines for eco-responsability in a world of outsourced IT services.

Greenethiquette encourages IT users to commit to eco-responsibility guidelines where IT resources are delivered through outsourced services. Its objectives are :

• Raise awareness by documenting impacts of digital services with respect to the environment.
• Commit to fair energy use guidelines and adopt a permanently focused approach (with emphasis on best practice adoption, performance monitoring and transparency)
• Influence eco-responsibility from hosted service suppliers by requesting a commitment to environmental guidelines for reporting on eco-efficiency
  

Greenethiquette is a charter   :

• drafted by the digital service provider, that enforces a commitment with the hosted service provider.
• a label that is open to all, to formalise a code of conduct : no minimum service level with the exception of basic market standards (the European Code of Conduct, ClimateSavers..) shall be requested to the parties involved.
• a unique charter on the market as it is targeted at a new group (the consumer of the physical IT resources, rather than the provider). The charter is fully backed-up by standards, which determine the measuring elements and practices to be used. The charter defines transparency rules, ensuring energy output data is shared between the provider and the consumer.

Read more about Greenethiquette and subscribe to this charter now.