We don't have a widely adopted way to track the full lifecycle carbon footprint of individual software applications.
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While hardware energy use gets some attention, the carbon footprint of running specific pieces of software, from development to daily use, remains largely unmeasured and unaccounted for. Building this tracking into standard practice remains unresolved.
Citation ID: WS00730
Title: We don't have a widely adopted way to track the full lifecycle carbon footprint of individual software applications.
URL: https://worldsolve.org/index.php?api=problem&id=730