As a side effect of the accelerated move towards the cloud, the software industry is contributing more and more to global warming. Companies took different commitments: Net-Zero, Carbon Neutral etc. Asim Hussain, Green Cloud Advocacy Lead @ Microsoft deciphers them during the Devoxx UK keynote. Understanding them will help developers move the needle for each type of commitment.
Global warming is tied to the amount of greenhouse gasses(GHG) in the atmosphere. But even though there are multiple GHGs(Methane has a 40 times bigger impact than CO2), the most common one is carbon dioxide (CO2).
