Essential information about the Green Software Foundation, recent media coverage, and resources for journalists.
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 72 member organisations spanning a global workforce.
The Foundation is governed by Google, Cisco, Siemens, NTT DATA, UBS, Accenture.
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 help@greensoftware.foundation.
Our members are building green software at scale. Here are their stories and the impact they've achieved.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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 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 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.
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.
The Green Software Foundation in the news.
For press enquiries, interviews, and media requests:
help@greensoftware.foundationThe primary GSF spokespersons are the current GSF Chairperson, Vice-Chairperson, and Executive Director. All communication releases are ratified by the Steering Committee.
