Glossary

CO₂e

Carbon dioxide equivalent (CO₂e) is a metric measure used to compare the emissions from various greenhouse gases on the basis of their global-warming potential (GWP), by converting amounts of other gases to the equivalent amount of carbon dioxide with the same global warming potential.

CSRD

The Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) is an EU regulation that requires large companies to report detailed information on their environmental, social, and governance (ESG) impacts. It aims to improve transparency and accountability by ensuring businesses provide standardized and reliable sustainability data, helping investors, consumers, and stakeholders make more informed decisions.

ESG

Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) refers to a set of criteria used to evaluate a company’s performance in these three areas. It focuses on how businesses manage environmental impacts (e.g., emissions, resource use), social factors (e.g., labor practices, diversity), and governance (e.g., corporate policies, transparency). ESG is increasingly used by investors and stakeholders to assess companies' sustainable and ethical practices.

FinOps

Financial Operations (FinOps) is an operational framework and cultural practice that maximizes the business value of the cloud, enables timely data-driven decision-making, and creates financial accountability through collaboration between engineering, finance, and business teams. A common misconception is that FinOps is primarily about saving money, but it is more about squeezing maximum value out of the cloud per dollar spent.

Green Code

Green code focuses on reducing software's environmental impact by minimizing energy consumption and reducing the carbon footprint associated with running and developing the code. This often involves writing software that consumes fewer computational resources and runs more efficiently, but the primary driver is environmental sustainability.

Green Lean

Green Lean is a value optimization practice and umbrella term used by Kanto Company that combines disciplines and approaches like FinOps, performance engineering, GreenOps, and green code. It is the intersection where the main goal is to save natural resources by reducing cloud costs and improving cloud efficiency.

GreenOps

Green Operations (GreenOps) refers to practices and strategies that organizations adopt to minimize the environmental impact of IT operations, particularly in cloud computing. It focuses on optimizing resource use, reducing energy consumption, leveraging cloud providers' sustainability features like auto-scaling, and tracking carbon emissions. The aim is to enhance operational efficiency while reducing the environmental footprint.

Kanto

Beautiful in Malagassy, street corner or intersection in Filipino, and tree stump in Finnish. The Finnish word "kantokyky" translates to "carrying capacity": The Earth's carrying capacity is limited.

Performance Engineering

Performance engineering (PerfEng) is concerned with improving a system's efficiency, speed, and scalability. It focuses on ensuring that the software can handle high loads, respond quickly, and consume minimal hardware resources, often for the sake of user experience and cost efficiency.