Decision

The Beyond Carbon bid for £42,000 for
the IT Function Carbon Model is approved.

Reasons for the decision

The delivery of a carbon modelling tool that
will allow exact carbon reductions to be calculated for new or
changed IT services when making associated technology choices. The
model will forecast the financial and carbon savings from options
associated with each service change. This includes ‘off
site’ cloud storage and the increased use of AI in service
delivery, which have ‘hidden’ cash and carbon
costs.

Further iterations of this Carbon Toolkit could be developed beyond
this primary application for wider financial savings and carbon
impact quantification.

Alternative options considered

Bids are submitted to the Beyond Carbon Pump
Priming budget following an agreed process. Therefore, no
alternative options were considered.