Microsoft made a giant climate pledge one year ago here’s where it’s at now
It’s made small gains
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One year after pledging to remove all of its historic and future planet-heating emissions within a few decades, Microsoft says it has already slashed its carbon footprint by 6 percent. It’s an incremental change that’s in line with what’s needed globally to address the climate crisis, but there is a whole lot of work left for Microsoft to do.
There is a whole lot of work left for Microsoft to do
Last January, Microsoft pledged to do something that, at the time, was pretty unheard-of: it planned to become carbon
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Sustainability is an important priority for society, and one which Microsoft takes very seriously. We announced in January that we will be going carbon negative by 2030, and by 2050 we aim to have removed from the environment all of the carbon we have emitted since the company was founded in 1975.
We’ve backed up this commitment with the launch of our Climate Innovation Fund. The fund is investing $1 billion over the next four years in new technologies and innovative sustainability solutions, backing others so that they can be successful in their sustainability journey. We’ve also joined nine other organisations to become a founder member of the Transform to Net Zero initiative, which aims to deliver guid