Developer community has opportunity to help the world achieve 2030 UN Sustainable Development Goals by adopting Sustainable Software Engineering practices as well as building applications that have positive first and second order effects on one of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals.

Designing network infrastructure upfront can reduce customer’s carbon footprint as well as the carbon footprint of their cloud provider. This also represents a paradigm shift in how cloud services are designed, planned, and deployed. Just like designing with accessibility in mind became a common software development life cycle.