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== Overview ==

'''carbon.txt''' is a proposed web standard for making it possible to verify that web-infrastructure uses green power, in lieu of green power, users of the standard will simply be able to see what type of power is being used by a hosting provider. The standard is designed to be chained from web-site to host to electricity provider, creating a graph of dependencies. A graph-like approach enables hosting-providers with other upstream hosting dependencies to link to those, and likewise, until an electricity provider is located.

== File format example ==

Via [https://github.com/thegreenwebfoundation/carbon.txt/blob/13468fed5ad3c6ea0eb372cb8523464e6b1f11f6/carbon.sample.simple.txt carbon.txt simple example].

We assume a filename-based identification: <tt>carbon.txt</tt>

Content may look as follows:

<pre language="ini">
# we assume most sites have one main provider which might provide the servers
# used to serve content. If you know this, you can look up that provider's
# carbon.txt file to make it possible to start walking the graph.

[Upstream Providers]

# while a website might rely on a single provider, it's common to rely on other
# providers: google for analytics, or another CDN, and so on. Let's assume a
# simple site is hosted just by one org for this example.

providers = [<URL for company>]

# That's all you need

</pre>

== References ==

[https://github.com/thegreenwebfoundation/carbon.txt/blob/13468fed5ad3c6ea0eb372cb8523464e6b1f11f6/README.md carbon.txt proposed standard]

== See also ==

[https://www.thegreenwebfoundation.org/ The Green Web Foundation]
[https://github.com/thegreenwebfoundation/carbon.txt carbon.txt GitHub repository]

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 * [https://www.thegreenwebfoundation.org/ The Green Web Foundation]
 * [https://github.com/thegreenwebfoundation/carbon.txt carbon.txt GitHub repository]