Publications

Critical Dependencies: How power consolidation of digital infrastructures threatens democracies—and what we can do about it (2024)

For funders seeking to strengthen the public’s interest in digital infrastructures at a systemic rather than symptomatic level. The report summarizes harms caused by unhealthy dependencies and recommends how to challenge power consolidation and foster meaningful alternatives.

Thinking about using AI? Here’s what you can and (probably) can’t change about its environmental impact (2024)

Intended to help people with a responsibility for AI projects understand the considerations around their direct negative environmental impact arising from AI. We cover what to be mindful of, what mitigating strategies are available today and the limitations.

A Green Handbook for Community Tech Practitioners (2023)

Explores the potential of community tech and digital sustainability through case studies, hands-on tools, and models for understanding sustainability. Commissioned by Promising Trouble and Power to Change.

Towards a Fossil-Free Internet: The Fog Of Enactment (2022)

This research report explore paths to decarbonize the internet while working towards digital ecosystems that are open, diverse and in service to people’s needs. Commissioned by us, written by leading independent researchers in digital sustainability, Gauthier Roussilhe.

Sept 2024 – Making carbon.txt work in the Green Web Foundation

This document provides a summary of the initial research phase of our carbon.txt project, funded by NGI Search, and sets out how we intend to deliver the subsequent milestones in our project. We describe the design of the standalone validator of carbon.txt files that we intend to build as an open source reference implementation for our next milestone.

Nov 2022 – Extending IPv6 to support Carbon Aware Networking

In November 2022, we worked with academics and industry specialists on our first paper, Extending IPv6 to support Carbon Aware Networking, as a response to the Internet Architecture Board’s workshop on Environmental Impact of Internet Applications and Systems, 2022.

It was accepted, and the ideas discussed in the workshops are feeding into our Green Web Studio innovation projects.

Towards a Just and Sustainable Digital Transformation for People and the Planet (2024)

This paper explores the intersection of sustainability and digital transformation from a global governance perspective and examines current global governance initiatives that work on these topics.
This paper is part of a bigger consultancy for the Coalition for Digital Environmental Sustainability (CODES). Written and conceptualised by Konnektiv, Superrr Lab, and Green Web Foundation. Edited in collaboration with Umweltbundesamt (German Environment Agency).

Implementation Pathways Towards a Just and Sustainable Digital Transformation for People and the Planet (2024)

This paper builds on the findings of the first policy paper and outlines fifteen possible strategic pathways towards a just and sustainable digital transformation for different stakeholders from industry over civil society to governments. 
This paper is part of a bigger consultancy for the Coalition for Digital Environmental Sustainability (CODES). Written and conceptualised by Konnektiv, Superrr Lab, and Green Web Foundation – and in close collaboration with Umweltbundesamt (German Environment Agency).

Contributions to a Framework Approach for Sustainable Digital Infrastructures (2024)

This paper contributes to the framework approach for sustainable digital infrastructures by the Umweltbundesamt (German Environment Agency) through expert inputs, two workshops and further consultations.
This paper is part of a bigger consultancy for the Coalition for Digital Environmental Sustainability (CODES). Written and conceptualised by Konnektiv in collaboration with Umweltbundesamt (German Environment Agency). Edited by Superrr Lab and Green Web Foundation.

Deutsche Impulse für eine gerechte und nachhaltige digitale Transformation (2024, in German)

This paper explores Germany’s role in a just and sustainable digital transformation and to identify possible levers of both global and local policy making. This paper is part of a bigger consultancy for the Coalition for Digital Environmental Sustainability (CODES). Written and conceptualised by Green Web Foundation and Superrr Lab in close collaboration with Umweltbundesamt (German Environment Agency).