At basic level, individuals remember and implement simple tasks with guidance as needed.

• Acknowledge the role that individuals can play to help reduce the environmental impact of digital technologies.
• Recognise that some digital technologies and infrastructures, such as AI systems and data centres, have large impacts on the environment.
• Recognise that the full environmental impacts of digital technologies are not immediately apparent to an individual user.
• Recognise the role of digital technologies in supporting energy efficiency and sustainability.
• Identify and apply simple strategies to reduce energy and data consumption while using digital technologies.

At intermediate level, individuals identify and implement well-defined tasks and solve well-defined problems autonomously.

• Continually assess the environmental impacts of one's usage of digital technologies.
• Identify environmental impacts of digital technologies that occur during manufacturing, usage and disposal, and of data centres and e-commerce.
• Describe how some digital technologies can support sustainable living.
• Describe potential environmental benefits of the digital sharing and circular economy models.
• Assess and apply a variety of strategies to reduce the environmental impact of one's use of digital technologies and digital devices.

At advanced level, individuals assess and apply solutions to a variety of complex tasks autonomously and adapt to a variety of contexts to evaluate and execute tasks appropriately, guiding others if and as required.

• Stay informed about the environmental impacts of digital technologies and ways in which digital technologies can support sustainability.
• Evaluate the environmental impacts of digital technologies and infrastructures to support decision-making or advocacy.
• Help others to assess their use of digital technologies to identify ways in which to reduce environmental impact.

At highly advanced level, individuals assess, evaluate and resolve highly complex or specialised problems to create new solutions or adapt existing ones, leading and guiding others if and as required.

• Stay informed about the environmental and sustainability implications of digital technologies across a range of sectors.
• Promote and support actions for environmentally sustainable usage of digital technologies.
• Lead or contribute to digital sustainability initiatives.
• Contribute to improvements in or solutions for digital sustainability.