Climate Action Plan for Developers (github.com)

Speed & Scale published a developer-focused Climate Action Plan tied to its broader net-zero initiative (10 objectives, 49 key results that track yearly progress) and curated practical tools so engineers can measure, visualize, and reduce the carbon footprint of software and ML workloads. The resource highlights lightweight, actionable tooling — CodeCarbon (a Python library to instrument code and report CO2 emissions), Electricity Maps (a global electricity-grid API for carbon intensity and energy mix), MapYourGrid (open mapping of grid topology), City Energy Analyst (urban energy and infrastructure modeling), and ClimateTriage (a matchmaking service to find climate-focused open-source projects). They also show workflows using GitHub Copilot to speed integration of these tools into projects. For AI/ML practitioners this matters because it moves emissions from abstract to measurable signals you can act on: instrument model training with CodeCarbon, pull real-time grid carbon intensity from Electricity Maps to shift batch jobs to cleaner hours, visualize transmission constraints with MapYourGrid, and model city-scale impacts with City Energy Analyst. The plan’s emphasis on open source and contribution pathways (ClimateTriage, GitHub Copilot examples) lowers the barrier for teams to bake sustainability into CI/CD, hyperparameter and scheduling decisions, and project roadmaps — turning carbon-aware development from a niche practice into an operational capability.