First meeting to discuss the organisation of the Environmental Sustainability Forum 

A first list of topics to be followed up has been collected at the end of the WLCG Environmental Sustainability Workshop in December 2024.

The document: WLCG Sustainability - Next Steps 

It lists topics related to the Experiments, Software performance and portability, some aspects of storage and three  concrete next steps to be followed up: 

1) Benchmarking Compute + Storage + Networking 

2) Metrics: "Physics" per Unit of Energy 

3) Adoption of Heterogeneous Architectures 

The goal of this meeting is, as far as I understand it (Markus), to organise a forum where these topics will be discussed, progress will be tracked and additional topics be identified. We also have to find the right place within the existing infrastructures where to report on the activities of the forum ( maybe OTF ?? )

We also have to decide within which framework and at which frequency this forum should be held. 

Another aspect that needs to be understood is whether and how we can (should) liaise with other activities and projects on behalf of WLCG, such as RF2.0, HECAP+, GreenDIGIT, GreenAlgorithms (UK Software Sustainability Institute) , ODISSEE (CERN/Maria), ECO:DIGIT (funded by German Ministry ), NextGen triggers (CERN) ............