Origin Story: Estimating a Large App's Emissions

Chris Skipper hosts Florent Morel and Joseph Cook to discuss Carmen on this Backstage episode. Built at Amadeus and now part of the GSF ecosystem, Carmen helps organizations measure software carbon emissions at both infrastructure and application levels using existing observability and FinOps data, all powered by the GSF Impact Framework. They discuss why granular, team-level emissions data matters, how Carmen works in practice, and how standardized, transparent measurements can turn sustainability insights into concrete engineering action.

Learn more about our people:

• Chris Skipper: LinkedIn | Website
• Florent Morel: LinkedIn | GitHub | Website
• Joseph Cook: LinkedIn | Website

Find out more about the GSF:

• The Green Software Foundation Website 
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Resources:

• Open‑Source Carbon Measurement Engine: How Carmen Advances Sustainable Engineering | Amadeus  [00:30] 
• How Amadeus engineers are contributing to a carbon-aware software industry? | Amadeus [03:08]
• Impact Framework | GSF [05:30]
• Environment Variables Ep 96 | Backstage: Impact Framework [07:48]
• Software Carbon Intensity (SCI) Specification | GSF [17:13]
• GitHub - AmadeusITGroup/carmen: Open-source carbon measurement for cloud infrastructure and Kubernetes workloads. [20:48]

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