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Filecoin Green Documentation
  • šŸ“—Filecoin Green Documentation
  • ā™»ļøStorage Providers Green Guidance Documentation
    • 🌐Introduction
    • šŸŒFilecoin Green
      • šŸ”±Filecoin Green Pledge
    • šŸ“‘Storage Provider’s Tiered Sustainability Claims
    • šŸ“‹Storage Providers Sustainability Criteria
      • GHG Emissions Accounting
        • How Storage Providers should Calculate Emissions
      • Renewable Energy Procurement
        • How Storage Providers should Procure Renewable Energy
          • Renewable Electricity Sourcing Methods
            • Spotlight: DCENT
          • Additional methods for procuring renewable energy
            • Spotlight: Zero Labs
          • Credible Claims Requirements
          • Energy Sources and Technologies
      • Additional Reporting Criteria and Reporting Cadence
        • Water Use
        • Hardware Waste
        • Reporting Periods and Cadence
    • šŸ”†Conclusion
    • šŸ—ƒļøAdditional Resources
      • Annex 1: Carbon Accounting Methodologies Hierarchy
      • Annex 2: Details on Storage Provider’s Tiered Sustainability Claims
      • Annex 3: Filecoin Green Reporting Portal
      • Annex 4: Treatment of Carbon Credits
  • āš™ļøFilecoin Green API Docs
    • šŸ”§List of APIs
      • ⚔Energy Consumption API
      • 🌿Green Scores API
      • šŸ“ˆRenewable Energy Certificates API
      • ā†”ļøFilecoin Miner ID <-> Peer ID relation API
  • šŸ–„ļøFilecoin Green UI Tools
    • šŸ”CID.place
    • šŸ“ƒREC Browser
    • šŸ“ˆMetered Energy Consumption
    • šŸ“©CSV Export utility
    • šŸ‘¾CO2.Storage
  • šŸ“šAdditional Resources
  • šŸ‘¾CO2.Storage Docs
    • 🧐About
    • āš™ļøData Model
    • āš’ļøUI: Getting Started
    • šŸ—ļøSetting Up the CLI
    • āœļøTemplate Author's Guide
    • šŸ’„Examples
    • 🌱Build a Web UI
    • šŸ–„ļøUI Functionality
    • āŒØļøAPI Functionality
    • šŸŽ†Configuring IPFS Nodes
    • ā€¼ļøFAQ
    • šŸ—ŗļøDevelopment Roadmap
    • šŸ—»Decarbonize Your Travel
    • šŸ’”Energy Validation Process (EVP) Schema
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GHG Emissions Accounting

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To achieve any credible decarbonization goals, actors must start with a comprehensive carbon accounting exercise, and in order to do so they must have a robust way to measure, track, and report their electricity use and the associated GHG Emissions.

is the process by which organizations inventory and audit the greenhouse gasses (GHGs) they generate, including those the organization is directly and indirectly responsible for emitting. This process allows organizations to better understand and manage the climate impacts of their operations, and may be used to inform business strategy and decision-making.

The most widely used approach for carbon accounting is the , a joint initiative by the nonprofits and . The GHG Protocol defines three ā€œScopesā€ of emissions for GHG accounting and reporting purposes:

  • Scope 1: Direct emissions that result from an organization’s activities, such as fuel combustion from facilities.

  • Scope 2: Indirect emissions associated with an organization’s activities, often from the generation of purchased electricity consumed by your company.

  • Scope 3: Indirect emissions from an organization’s supply chain (rather that its primary operations), such as embodied emissions in purchased raw materials.

In the context of Filecoin, Storage Providers are responsible for the emissions that result from the direct activities of their company (Scope 1), those which result from the generation of purchased electricity consumed by their organization (Scope 2), as well as a portion of the emissions from all other indirect sources of emissions from an organization’s supply chain (Scope 3).

A major component of these emissions results from the electricity which SPs use to store data and prove that it is stored over time. These emissions are generated from the electricity consumption of their hard disk drives (HDDs) for data and solid-state drives (SSDs) for data.

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