Playing for the Planet's industry-tailored carbon accounting tool developed by, and for, game studios
Launching 2025
Playing for the Planet’s Carbon Calculator is a validated, user-friendly carbon accounting tool which has been built with and for studios, publishers, and other games industry organisations to facilitate accurate footprinting and address the emissions in need of greatest attention.
Informed by Playing for the Planet’s 2023 report, Untangling the Carbon Complexities of the Video Gaming Industry, the calculator has been developed with The Carbon Trust alongside input from Playing for the Planet Alliance members, and enables studios to measure emissions and take action in alignment with the Greenhouse Gas Protocol.
Emission sources covered by the calculator include both business operations and games industry specific value chains (such as those from data centres or consumers playing the games you make) to measure across all categories of scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions to support studios reporting on regulatory requirements such as CSRD.
The Carbon Calculator is currently being beta tested by members of the Alliance, and on track for a public launch in early 2025 as part of Playing for the Planet’s mission to facilitate and accelerate sector-wide decarbonisation of the games industry.
