Add carbon.txt

[chris-lawton]

Description of Changes Made

This MR adds a carbon.txt file at the root of the site to publish Torchbox’s sustainability disclosures and upstream infrastructure data, following the Green Web Foundation carbon.txt standard.

Includes:

• Links to Torchbox’s sustainability policy, impact reports, and emissions methodology post
• Upstream services list (Heroku, AWS S3, Cloudflare, GitHub Actions)

Why:
To increase transparency about our digital infrastructure and environmental impact, and to support adoption of open sustainability data standards.

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[helenb]

Looks good @chris-lawton I just had 2 queries.

[helenb]

Is sustainability-page the correct type here? This blog post suggests it needs to be in a particular format, although I may have misunderstood (and the file validates correctly) https://www.thegreenwebfoundation.org/news/using-carbon-txt-with-csrd-reports/

[chris-lawton]

I think (and I could be wrong) that the report in that blog post would have doc_type="csrd-report". From the current doc_type options available (Web Page, Annual Report, Sustainability Page, Certificate, CSRD Report and Other) I felt like sustainability-page was the most appropriate for this url.

[thibaudcolas]

yep, CSRD reports have a separate type, that is meant to link to a machine-readable format I believe.