WLCG Sustainability Forum Meeting #2: Embodied carbon

Wednesday 29 Oct 2025, 16:30 → 18:00 Europe/Zurich

513/1-024 (CERN)

16:30 → 16:40 Introduction and CERN perspective

Speakers: Caterina Doglioni (The University of Manchester (GB)), David Britton (University of Glasgow (GB)), Markus Schulz (CERN)

16:45 → 16:55 Life Cycle Analysis for Emissions of Scientific Computing Centres

See also https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14365

Speakers: Mattias Wadenstein (University of Umeå (SE)), Wim Vanderbauwhede (University of Glasgow)

17:00 → 17:10 An environmental assessment of computing services in higher education (TBC)

Speaker: Nicolas Labra Cataldo (University of Manchester)

17:10 → 17:30 Discussion on lifecycle assessment for embodied carbon

• what are the most practical ways to account for embodied carbon for WLCG sites?
• what do we want to prioritise, in terms of components?