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There are two primary options for calculating a protocol wide carbon footprint. All calculations consider flight miles, offices, virtual CPUs, physical data centers, and location-based emissions factors for validator operations.
This approach requires requesting all or a sampling of your validators and relayers to fill out the PoS Carbon Calculator. Read more about calculating a protocol footprint here.
This calculation uses a “worst case scenario” carbon footprint* and multiplies it by the number of all active and inactive validators** on your chain + 1 relayer.
*The “worst case scenario” carbon footprint was established based on a sampling taken of Regen Network’s own validators. The largest validator operation of the set emitted 25 metric tons of carbon per year, according to the PoS Carbon Calculator with their data applied. This standard is used to avoid under-estimations.
**Under the assumption that even validators outside of the active set are running a node, all associated validators were used to calculate the overall protocol footprint.
<aside> 🌱 Read more about carbon footprint calculation methodologies used here.
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**Carbon footprints are in metric tons of carbon emitted/protocol/year.
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