The Sustainable Games Alliance Standard will launch on Oct 7th!
by Ben Abraham and the Sustainable Games Alliance
The SGA Standard is a games industry-specific interpretation of the GHG Protocol, designed to reduce the burden and complexity of complying with environmental, social, and governance disclosures required by multiple jurisdictions worldwide. The initial focus is on meeting the requirements of the European Union’s Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) and the European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS). Starting with environmental impact, the standard will address additional required topics one by one.
After a year plus of work, dozens of conversations with game developers, weeks of review and refinement with STRATEGIES research project, and as much hands-on time testing the standard as we could fit in... it's about to go live and kick off a new era for the games industry.
Gone will be the days of individual developers toiling away on their own, scratching their heads at how to approach this or that part of their climate footprint. Gone will be the confusion over what should or shouldn't be counted. Gone will be the uncertainty about whether or not we can actually control any of this – with a ton of brand new activity based methods we're unlocking really meaningful interventions in games to bend the industry's stubbornly increasing emissions curve downwards.
You can meet us Dr. Ben Abraham, Maria Wagner, Jiri Kupiainen next in Helsinki (Leadership Day of IGDA Finland, Pocket Gamer Connects, W Love Games), Melbourne (Games for Change), Berlin (Games Ground Berlin), Paris (Paris Games Week) and Barcelona (Unite 2025) where we'll present and discuss practical solutions for:
👉 Improvements that cut costs and environmental impact
👉 Optimize energy consumption and extend battery life
👉 Reduce hardware load and optimize performance
👉 Enhance the player experience
👉 Providing developers with better data, faster
We will be on stage discussing these topics with amazing industry professionals and experts such as:
Tommi Lappalainen from Rovio Entertainment, Jari-Pekka Kaleva from European Games Developer Federation (EGDF), Gabriela Leopard 🔜 PGC Helsinki from Second Stage, Atte Harjanne Member of the Finnish Parliament, Lukas Galinski from INSTINCT3, Sofie Fransson from Modern Times Group MTG AB, Mathilde Yagoubi-Thery and Geoffrey Marmonier from JYROS, 🇺🇦 Ruslana Kruchek, Hendrik Lesser from remote control productions, Valtteri Lahti from Psyon Games, Stephen Lee from DECA Games and Laurent Gibert 🎮 from Unity and many more.
