Green Software Design - Certificate
Certify software – for climate protection and a greener future.
The label recognizes software that has been tested according to various resource efficiency criteria. Show your customers your commitment to environmental protection with the Green Software Design label.
Green software makes an important contribution to climate protection. For end customers and the public, however, it is not apparent whether climate protection has played a role in software development. Do you value resource-efficient software development? Then make it visible with a label! Apply today for the Green Software Design-Certificate and show that the software has been developed in a climate-friendly way.
Benefits of the Green Software Design Certificate
Award process
Placement of the label of your software
After a successful examination you will receive the Green Software Design-Certificate and additionally a digital certificate of your software. Why not start your external communication right after receiving the label, whether label integration in the software itself or label placement on your company website.
Scope of application
The GSD certificate is issued for a specific software of the applicant (exact name and version number must be available). “Software” refers to a software product (e.g. a financial management software), an open source software (i.e. a freely available software product) or an individual software, i.e. a software provided by a company itself (e.g. the online banking of a bank). The label is only awarded for web and/or mobile applications including server components (with or without connected database).
The label certifies that best practices for minimising the software’s carbon footprint were used in the design and development process. “Best practices” refers to the options for action known according to the state of the art (at the time of certification) that contribute to the goal.
The framework conditions in the individual contract for the GSD label apply, as well as the issued declaration on the correct use of the GSD label.