Carbon Emissions Reporting

[ng-druid]

We are interested in tracking our APIs carbon emissions which uses the Github REST API to create programmatic commits to repositories. We are able to do this for our AWS serverless functions using information obtained from the cloud watch logs. However, the scope 3 emissions of work done within Github REST API remains an unknown. It would be nice for Github to add headers to Github REST API responses that report on the amount of carbon emitted. If Github were to provide headers with carbon emission reporting info we could aggregate it with our own AWS emissions forming a more complete picture of the full scope of emissions for our API. Those unfamiliar with carbon emissions reporting might take a look at Cloud Carbon Footprint to have a better understanding of some the algorithms that can be used to achieve this. There are also many resources that the Green Software Foundation provides to achieve carbon emissions tracking. The Green Software Foundation is a nonprofit formed between Microsoft & Linux. Perhaps this has come up in conversations since Github is part of Microsoft. Our own project is a sustainable carbon aware data store built on top of Github that we would very much like to introduce scope 3 Github emissions.