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# Carbon Aware SDK
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The Carbon Aware SDK is a toolset to help you measure the carbon emissions of your software,
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in turn helping you **measure and reduce your software's carbon emissions**.
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Carbon aware software does more when it can leverage greener energy sources, and less when the energy CO2 emissions are higher.
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The Carbon Aware SDK is a toolset to help you measure the carbon emissions of your software, in turn helping you **measure and reduce your software's carbon emissions**, and choose when and where you run your software to make it greener.
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![Carbon Aware Software](./images/carbon-aware-software.png)
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By knowing the carbon emissions of the energy that powers your applications,
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you and your organisation can make decisions on when and where to run your software,
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and leverage greener energy sources.
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you and your organisation can leverage greener energy sources to reduce your CO2 emissions by:
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* Build your AI models when carbon emissions are lower
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* Deploy software into the cloud in locations that have greener energy sources
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* Run software updates at greener energy time windows
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* Use data to run hypothetical models to understand how you could start driving impact and reduce emissions
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* Building AI models when carbon emissions are lower
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* Deploying software into the cloud in locations that have greener energy sources
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* Running software updates at greener energy time windows
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* Using data to run hypothetical models to understand how you could start driving impact and reduce emissions, drive business cases for change, and create a greener future.
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Companies including UBS and Vestas have already deployed the Carbon Aware SDK to build greener software, and you can too!
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Get started on creating sustainable software innovation for a greener future
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![WebApi Screenshot](./images/what-is-green-software-asim-hussain-green-software-foundation1.avif)
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![Green Software](./images/what-is-green-software.avif)
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# How Does This Work?
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You can reduce the carbon footprint of your application by just running things
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this **carbon aware software**.
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![Carbon Aware Software](./images/types-of-green-software.png)
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The Carbon Aware SDK helps you build the carbon aware software solutions with
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the intelligence to use the greenest energy sources. Run them at the greenest
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### Appointments
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The following are those who are currently actively working on the SDK and have made significant ongoing contributions.
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- Chair/Project lead - Vaughan Knight (Microsoft)
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- Senior Technical Program Manager - Sophie Trinder (Green Software Foundation)
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- Principal Contributor - Szymon Duchniewicz (Avanade)
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- Principal Contributor - Dan Benitah (Avanade)
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- Contributor - Bill Derusha (Avanade)
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- Contributor - Bill DeRusha (Microsoft)
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- Contributor - Yasumasa Suenaga (NTT Data)
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- Contributor - Damien Roux (NTT Data)
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Please note that there are many others who have made contributions over time - these are all greatly appreciated, the project would not be where it is today without everyone's support. Thank you.
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### GSF Project Scope
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For developers to build carbon aware software, there is a need for a unified

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