India, Oct. 13 -- Global Electronics Association has announced the release of IPC-1783-CO2E, International Standard for Data Collection and Reporting of CO2 Equivalent (CO2e) Emissions for the Electronics Manufacturing Supply Chain, a new global standard designed to bring greater consistency, credibility and comparability to product carbon footprint data across the electronics industry.

As customers, regulators and supply-chain partners increasingly request product-level emissions information, electronics manufacturers face a persistent challenge: carbon data can be measured, estimated, collected, and reported differently from one organization to another. Those differences can make product carbon footprint calculations difficult to compa...