Gaming industry veterans have formed the Sustainable Games Alliance, a nonprofit dedicated to “helping make the gaming industry sustainable.”
Backed by leading industry professionals including Unity Technologies founder David Helgason and Remedy co-founder Petri Järvilehto, the Sustainable Games Alliance, overseen by CEO and co-founder Maria Wagner, is working to make games “the most sustainable form of entertainment on the planet” by creating practical ways to help the industry measure, understand, and reduce its footprint.
To achieve this, the Alliance is developing a free, open and global industry standard for sustainability reporting. It hopes to simplify compliance with key regulations such as the European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS) and the EU Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD).
“Gaming is one of the world’s leading industries in terms of metrics and data, so it’s uniquely positioned to leverage all of that in the sustainability space as well,” said Dr. Ben Abraham, author of Digital Games After Climate Change and one of the leading researchers working in the field of gaming and sustainability.
“Concrete actions are needed and working together with a unified set of actions is more efficient and cost-effective for all member companies and associations,” says Wagner.
“The growth of the video game industry over the past 20 years has been impressive, and if we can show the way, not just in revenue but also in sustainability, we can inspire other industries to follow suit.”