[Brajeshwar]

Software Engineering definitely plays a big part. It can be seen as the ways to build the tools to augment the actions, automate processes, and help in building tools to remove CO2e (Carbon Dioxide equivalent).

However, thinking in terms of what IDE settings, configs, etc. and the act of software engineering with regards to Climate Change is too minuscule an impact that it may not have the desired effect.

For instance, in 2018, I help build a functioning aeroponics farm right in the middle of the city and supplied produce to some local eateries to test/experiment on our hypothesis. The entire operation ran on a single Raspberry Pi and the nutrient feed timing and feeding was automated. That is software engineering helping as a tool.

Yes, we can use Software Engineering as one of the key means to our end goal and do have big role to play which can have an outsized return in fighting climate change.