Fuente: WIPO "sustainability" Systems and methods are disclosed herein for optimizing carbonization benefit based on sustainability design principles. A method for optimizing carbonization benefit based on sustainability design principles reading a plurality of sustainability design principles associated with an organization; assigning each sustainability design principle of the plurality of sustainability design principles to one of a plurality of IT categories; computing, based on the design principles assigned to each IT category, a percentage carbon footprint for each of the plurality of sustainability design principles and for each of the IT categories; selecting, based on the computed percentage carbon footprints for each of the IT categories, a most impactful IT category; generating a sorted priority list of sustainability design principles within the most impactful IT category; and recommending an action plan to maximize carbonization benefit to the organization based on the sorted priority list of carbon footprint savings.