Razer is teaming up with UL and Panerai to assist kickstart an effort to be extra environmentally pleasant.
Razer introduced its partnership with UL and Panerai at RazerCon this yr, with the carbon-neutral reside stream together with how the corporate is planning to create a greener future.
UL is a world security certification firm, and the objective is for UL to help Razer in assembly its new environmental and financial objectives, with one of many first tasks for Razer together with sustainability targets and the event of Product Class Guidelines for gaming merchandise.
One of many largest components within the gaming business concerning sustainability is that there isn’t a standardised method to measure an eco-product, which suggests there aren’t any baseline requirements that firms can use as a information.
Razer is planning to work with UL to create one, with the better objective of kickstarting an business degree effort to grow to be extra sustainable and begin figuring out the important thing indicators of the environmental affect of the business.
The hope can also be that producers can have a greater method to search Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) for gaming merchandise. The EPD is an goal report that tells us what a product is made from and the way it impacts the surroundings over its complete life cycle.
The 2 firms may even be working to enlist stakeholders that may create a complete and goal method for producers within the business to measure the affect they’ve on the surroundings.
Trying previous the partnership with UL, Razer has additionally teamed up with Panerai, the watch producer, to work on ocean preservation, with a piece of RazerCon devoted to creating time for the ocean.
The year-long marketing campaign will embrace each firms working to reinforce ocean literacy, with a restricted version co-branded timepiece additionally being revealed. It will likely be hitting the markets subsequent yr and will likely be made from sustainable materials.
Razer has been vocal about its environmental campaigns; final yr the corporate launched Sneki Snek as its sustainability mascot, alongside a partnership with Conservation Worldwide to assist defend bushes.
Sneki Snek at the moment has his personal cartoon collection that helps educate followers about sustainability, in additional makes an attempt from the corporate to coach individuals on the significance of the surroundings.
Razer is certainly one of many firms seeking to enhance it’s merchandise sustainability. Audio model Bang & Olufsen pledged to work to create extra “cradle to cradle” sustainable merchandise earlier this yr, when it revealed its Beosound Degree wi-fi speaker had grow to be the “first shopper speaker” to obtain the initiative’s Bronze sustainability accreditation.