To better understand the direct and tangible environmental impacts of the use of X-Road software, NIIS commissioned research to assess the current emissions profile across X-Road’s operations and services. The study was performed by Gofore and Stockholm Environment Institute Tallinn (SEI) in close collaboration with NIIS and the X-Road Governing Authorities in Estonia and Finland. The report of the project is available here.

Together, experts built an emissions calculator to assess the emissions profile of the X-Road instance. The calculations used in this process have been derived from peer-reviewed literature and tailored to X-Road use cases in Estonia and Finland, which is well described in our blog post. However, the emissions calculator is comprehensive enough to perform calculations for any instance residing in any region.

Download (.xlsx) (updated 7 June 2021)