What’s changing
If you’re a Google Workspace admin, you can now track the carbon footprint and gross emissions of using Google Workspace. This means you can track the emissions impact of tools such as Google Meet, Gmail, Google Docs, and more.
Who’s impacted
Admins
Why it matters
We’ve heard from our customers that it would be helpful to understand their organization’s carbon emissions from Google Workspace product usage. For many of our customers, sustainability has become an increasingly important factor for IT-related decision making and resource allocation.
We’re making this information easily accessible to our customers in the Admin console. Using the Carbon Footprint reporting tool, you can:
- View aggregated emission data for your organization over time, broken down by service. You’ll be able to sort this information, month over month as well.
- You can break down emission data by service, such as Gmail or Drive .
Additional details
At Google, we continue to make product and operational improvements to reduce environmental impact. Our goal is to run on carbon-free energy, 24/7, at all of our data centers and cloud regions by 2030. Plus, we’re sharing technology, methods, and funding to enable organizations around the world to transition to more carbon-free and sustainable systems — see here for more information about our sustainability commitments.
Google uses the Greenhouse Gas Protocol, the global standard for carbon accounting to generate the Carbon footprint reports. We recommend that admins familiarize themselves with the GHG terminology — you can find more information in our Help Center or the video below.
Getting started
- Admins: You can find your Carbon Footprint report in the Admin console under Reporting > Carbon footprint. Visit the Help Center to learn more about the Workspace Carbon Footprint.
Rollout pace
- Rapid and Scheduled Release domains: This feature is available now.
Availability
- Available to all domain verified Google Workspace customers