Jyros 2.0 - Equipping the European Gaming industry for its green transition

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Jyros is a carbon calculation tool designed specifically for the video game industry. The tool was initially launched in France in 2022 thanks to a collaborative process spearheaded by the French national Video Game Consortium for the Environment. The tool allows the industry to overcome significant challenges. Firstly, the lack of industry-specific carbon calculators that adopt a standardized European calculation methodology while accounting for localized emission factors and data reporting national industry standards. Secondly, the lack of sustainability data transparency across European border, resulting in a lack of data-driven greening strategies and tailored recommendations for video game companies. Jyros offers a one-stop-solution for video game companies to easily collect and analyze their sustainability data and be supported in adopting greener practices, while centralized data in Jyros will be used to produce anonymized cross-border industry reports to define an industry environmental blueprint. Several key components of Jyros will be developed in the framework of the project to work towards this impact: a data dashboard completed by an automated recommendation system - one that calculates carbon trajectories based on studios' data to align with European goals -, as well as an e-learning platform. Jyros was initially built thanks to a strong ecosystem approach, and its European expansion will rely on the same methodology, with national associations in European countries playing a crucial role in gathering local stakeholders and ensuring the tool developments meet their needs and realities.