Sustainable IT: The launch of the Green Software Foundation

Last week, Microsoft announced the launch of the Green Software Foundation with Accenture, GitHub, and ThoughtWorks as founding members. The Green Software Foundation is a non-profit with a mission "to create a trusted ecosystem of people, standards, tooling and best practices for designing 'green software'", for example digital infrastructure with the least possible impact to the environment.

The foundation aims to help the software industry contribute to the ICT sector’s broader targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 45% by 2030 , in line with the Paris Climate Agreement.