Press & Media
Essential information about the Green Software Foundation, recent media coverage, and resources for journalists.
About the Green Software Foundation
The Green Software Foundation is a non-profit with the mission to create a trusted ecosystem of people, standards, tooling, and best practices for building green software.
The Green Software Foundation launched on May 25, 2021 with the Linux Foundation and the Joint Development Foundation, founded by Accenture, GitHub, Microsoft, and ThoughtWorks. Today, the Foundation has grown to 68 member organisations spanning a global workforce.
The Foundation is governed by Google, Siemens, NTT DATA, UBS, Accenture.
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The Green Software Foundation (GSF) is a nonprofit organization under the Linux Foundation. It aims to create a trusted ecosystem of people, standards, tooling, and best practices for building green software and hardware. Members of the GSF represent a balanced mix of for-profits, nonprofits, and academia from around the globe and include several Fortune Global 500 firms. The Foundation operates by consensus.
Three Working Groups, including Software Standards, Hardware Standards, and Policy, and two Committees, Green AI and Developer Relations, currently oversee the Foundation's ongoing projects.
If you need more information on the Green Software Foundation or wish to contact a spokesperson for an interview, email us at [email protected].
Impact & Member Stories
Our members are building green software at scale. Here are their stories and the impact they've achieved.
Standards move too slowly for our regulatory timeline
How GSF used an AI-assisted assembly process to bring 14 experts from 15 organisations to consensus in ten weeks — a process that previously took years — proving a new model for accelerating green software standards development as regulations tighten.
We can't shift workloads to clean energy
How Microsoft, UBS, Avanade, NTT DATA, and partners built the Carbon Aware SDK — the first open-source toolkit for carbon-aware computing, now deployed on production banking systems and graduated from the Green Software Foundation.
Engineers know the theory but not what to change in code
How NTT DATA, Goldman Sachs, Accenture, AVEVA, and contributors from 11 organisations built the Green Software Patterns catalogue — a peer-reviewed library of actionable techniques for reducing software emissions, with measurable before-and-after impact.
Our engineers don't know how to build green software
How Sarah Hsu of Goldman Sachs, Chris Lloyd-Jones of Avanade, and GSF members worldwide built and scaled the Green Software Practitioner course — now completed by over 130,000 engineers across the industry.
The biggest companies in the world were independently solving the same problem
How Jeff Sandquist of Microsoft, Sanjay Podder of Accenture, Erica Brescia of GitHub, and leaders from Thoughtworks and Goldman Sachs discovered they were working on the same problem — and founded the Green Software Foundation to solve it together.
Measurement is too hard for non-specialists
How Accenture, Microsoft, Amadeus, NTT DATA, and partners built the Impact Framework — an open-source tool that democratises software carbon measurement — and validated it through two global hackathons that together drew 900+ participants.
We don't know what legislation is coming
How the Green Software Foundation built the Policy Radar — a shared, transparent tool tracking forthcoming green software legislation — and established the Policy Working Group as the connective tissue between technical expertise and policy action.
Cloud providers have only released carbon data to customers on a monthly basis, with delays of a few months
How Adrian Cockcroft, Pindy Bhullar of UBS, and a working group including Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, and AWS built the Real Time Cloud standard — the first specification requiring cloud providers to share real-time energy and carbon data in a common format, ratified April 2025 after 21 months of biweekly collaboration.
How do you measure AI's carbon footprint?
How 20+ partner organisations came together to build the SCI for AI — the first consensus-based standard for measuring the carbon footprint of AI systems across their entire lifecycle.
How do you measure a website's carbon footprint?
How Chris Adams of the Green Web Foundation and 14 assembly members from across the industry are building SCI for Web — a standard for measuring website carbon intensity that covers the full delivery chain: servers, networks, third-party services, and end-user devices.
How do you measure software's carbon footprint?
How Abhishek Gupta, Henry Richardson, Navveen Balani, and contributors from across the industry built the Software Carbon Intensity specification — a rate-based metric that became ISO 21031:2024 and is now used by banks, consultancies, and infrastructure operators to baseline and reduce their software emissions.
Our pilots work but nothing scales across the org
How Pindy Bhullar, Sean O'Keefe, and contributors from seven GSF member organisations built SOFT — the Sustainable Organisational Framework for Technology — the first ratified framework for embedding green software practices across an entire organisation.
Key Messages
- - Green software means reducing emissions, not offsetting them. The Foundation advocates for abatement first.
- - Trust is foundational. All GSF documentation, processes, and standards are open and transparent by default.
- - Sustainability in software is a shared responsibility — across for-profits, non-profits, government, and academia.
- - Governance is consensus-driven and equitable. Every member organisation has one vote, regardless of size.
- - Sustainability should be as central to software development as performance, security, cost, and accessibility.
GSF Timeline
Media Coverage
The Green Software Foundation in the news.
Six Green Projects to Make Frontier AI More Sustainable
How businesses can make their IT operations more sustainable in 2025
Cracking the Code on Sustainable Software
Will Europe be the first region to enact regulation for green software?
The green software that could make big carbon savings
How a new open standard could help green your tech stack
What to expect from the Linux Foundation Open Source Summit Europe 2024
Want To Create Software Sustainably? Anne Currie’s Got Ideas
Green Software Foundation: On a mission to decarbonize software
How to Do Sustainable Software Development
Software Sucks, but It Doesn’t Have To
We Need to Decarbonize Software
Wind turbines could power the data centers of the future — the ingenious company making it happen calls it a ‘no-brainer’
Why 2024 will be the year of Green IT
Developing climate solutions with green software
Why Cloud Zombies Are Destroying the Planet and How You Can Stop Them
Former Amazon executive pursues cloud initiatives in renewable energy and net-zero emissions
Siemens steers sustainability as a GSF committee member
The power of green computing
Tech Week Singapore 2023: AI dominated tech discussions
Microsoft, IMDA unveil digital sustainability guidelines to spur green software development
Designing systems that reduce the environmental impact of AI
Arun Gupta, Intel's general manager of Open Ecosystem Initiatives, on making software greener and safer
The role of tech in climate change and climate justice
Singapore Partnering for Sustainable Digital Infrastructure
Council Post: Coding For A Greener Planet: How Carbon-Neutral Software Is Changing The World
Managing the Carbon Emissions Associated with Generative AI
IMDA, Dell, and Equinix to spearhead Singapore's green digital infrastructure deployment
The carbon footprint of computational research
What is green software?
5 ways tech leaders can power environmental sustainability
Episode 37 - Actions speak louder than code with Anne Currie, Green Software Foundation
Council Post: 4 Ways Coders Can Fight The Climate Crisis
Go green software – your bonus may depend on it!
Green IoT: The shift to practical sustainability
GREENER principles for environmentally sustainable computational science
Technologists Want to Develop Software Sustainably
What Is Green Software Development and Maintenance? 10 Things to Know
Here’s how AI could destroy the planet — and how responsible AI can help
How coders can help save the planet
Green software report sheds light on carbon-aware operations
It is time software got green
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Episode 16 - Green software with David Mytton, CEO and co-founder of Console
Salesforce thinks software developers can help sustainability, too
Kainos: Digital needs to be greener #techUKDigitalPS
Microsoft scales cloud-native workloads with carbon awareness
Software Architecture and Design InfoQ Trends Report - April 2023
Technology's Carbon Impact and What You Can Do about It
Green IT Is No Longer An Option For The Tech Sector
Counting the Cost of Carbon: Why IT Efficiency Matters
Microsoft offers developer guidance on green software tools
Microsoft Teams Up With Accenture, Goldman on Greener Software
Microsoft announces the Green Software Foundation to promote sustainable app development
Microsoft sets up nonprofit to cut software-related carbon emissions
Microsoft, the Linux Foundation, and others team up to make software sustainable
The future is climate-friendly software
Media Contact
For press enquiries, interviews, and media requests:
[email protected]The primary GSF spokespersons are the current GSF Chairperson, Vice-Chairperson, and Executive Director. All communication releases are ratified by the Steering Committee.