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News, insights, and technical deep-dives on green software from the GSF community.
SCI for AI: A Framework for EU AI Act Environmental Compliance
In a recent whitepaper published by GSF's Software Standards Working Group, we map the ratified SCI for AI specification to the EU AI Act, showing how it helps fulfill the regulation's energy measurement requirements and goes further by converting energy into carbon emissions and accounting for embodied hardware emissions.
Capital, Compute, and Carbon: Banking's Three Disciplines for Agentic AI
In our article, Navveen Balani, GSF Executive Director, examines how banking's existing governance disciplines extend to agentic AI and how they could benefit from shared measurement standards.
Leadership Update: Janardan Misra elected Co-Chair of the Software Standards Working Group
In our latest Q&A, Janardan Misra (Accenture), new Co-Chair of the GSF's Software Standards Working Group and member of our Steering Committee, shares his plans and priorities in the new roles.
Watersheds and Workloads: Bringing Water into the Sustainability Conversation
Navveen Balani, GSF Executive Director, explores the unique challenges of water measurement and what they mean for decision-makers ahead of emerging disclosure requirements.
The Green Software Foundation Turns Five
As we celebrate the fifth anniversary, here's a closer look at the milestones that shaped the Foundation into a global consortium of nearly 70 organizations.
Introducing the Software Water Intensity (SWI) Project
Led by the Software Standards Working Group, the Software Water Intensity (SWI) project aims to develop a consistent way to measure and reduce software's water footprint.
Tokens and Greens: Measuring the Impacts of Agentic AI
Navveen Balani shares why agentic AI has become the next big efficiency problem in software and what measuring its environmental impact across energy, carbon, and water requires from every layer of the technology stack.
Revisiting Green Software: From Silicon to Screen
The Green Software Foundation expands its vision to cover the full environmental footprint of modern software, across carbon, energy, water, and waste. Learn what this evolution means for the practitioners, organizations, and decision-makers shaping green software.
Introducing GSF Reference Implementations
The new GSF Reference Implementations repository is a community-driven space for working examples showing how to apply green software standards in practice, starting with SCI for AI applied to LLM inference.
SCI Self-Certification: A Standardized Way to Disclose Software's Carbon Emissions Data
We're launching the SCI Self-Certification program, enabling organizations to bring internal measurement into a publicly recognized disclosure, marking an important step toward industry-wide carbon transparency.
Green Software Foundation Announces New Leadership Appointment: Navveen Balani as Executive Director
The GSF is proud to announce a new leadership appointment. Navveen Balani, a founding member with over 25 years of experience at the intersection of technology and sustainability, steps into the role of Executive Director, succeeding Asim Hussain, who led the Foundation for nearly five years.
Carmen Webinar Recap: Bringing Carbon Measurement to Enterprise Scale
On Earth Day 2026, we hosted Carmen's first public webinar. Find out why the project was built inside Amadeus, how it shows which applications are driving emissions, and what features to expect next.