PD IEC/TR 62921 outlines detailed guidance to streamline the quantification of greenhouse gas emissions for computers and monitors. Other audio, video and multimedia products, such as e-readers, phones, and storage equipment, can be included in future revisions of this document.
For PD IEC/TR 62921, computers and monitors include notebooks, desktops, integrated desktop computers, tablets, thin clients, workstations and monitors.
PD IEC/TR 62921 provides specific guidance for the use of streamlining techniques that minimize cost and resources needed to complete greenhouse gas emissions quantifications.
PD IEC/TR 62921 specifies the product category rules which recommends “state-of-the-art” process and data assumptions in order to reduce uncertainty. PD IEC/TR 62921 provides an example of how a calculation could be performed.
PD IEC/TR 62921 on greenhouse gas emissions for computers is useful for organizations are looking to adopt product greenhouse gas emissions reporting mechanisms, includes:
There is an urgent need to enable methodologies that offer accurate and defensible estimates of impact in a rapid and effective manner. PD IEC/TR 62921 aims to fill in those gaps.
PD IEC/TR 62921 aims to support universal streamlined product greenhouse gas methodologies for practitioners, with a further goal of harmonizing the various regional efforts currently in progress.
PD IEC/TR 62921 provides you guidance for estimating greenhouse gas emissions for computers and monitors, which help to obtain consistent, accurate results. The benefit of consistent results is that they can assist multiple efforts, including supporting customer enquiries, instituting sustainable design practices, initiating conversations around emissions reduction strategies with suppliers and downstream users, targeting data collection within the supply chain in order to address data quality issues.
PD IEC/TR 62921 helps to enable quantification methodology for greenhouse gas emissions for computers and monitors.
IEC TR 62921:2016