From Digital Emissions Reporting to Taking Product Action
summary
Cambridge University Press & Assessment measures product carbon using the dmct tool for publishing workflows, AWS hosting metrics and Google Analytics for end‑user device and page‑weight data, finding platform emissions rising with user growth and heavier pages and that ~90% of users are outside the global North with higher network carbon. Product emissions sit outside current scope 3 so teams use digital sustainability principles, a sustainable web design guide and an MVP emissions calculator Jan 2025 to turn measurements into fixes.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:29Sustainability strategy
- 4:57Measuring footprint with DMCT
- 10:40Four years of impact learnings
- 15:20Emissions to actionable principles
- 17:28Future product emissions plans
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