REDMOND, Wash., Jan. 16, 2020 /CNW/ -- Microsoft Corp. on
Thursday announced an ambitious goal and a new plan to reduce and
ultimately remove its carbon footprint. By 2030 Microsoft will be
carbon negative, and by 2050 Microsoft will remove from the
environment all the carbon the company has emitted either directly
or by electrical consumption since it was founded in 1975.
At an event at its Redmond
campus, Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella, President Brad Smith, Chief Financial Officer Amy Hood, and Chief Environmental Officer
Lucas Joppa announced the company's
new goals and a detailed plan to become carbon negative.
"While the world will need to reach net zero, those of us who
can afford to move faster and go further should do so. That's why
today we are announcing an ambitious goal and a new plan to reduce
and ultimately remove Microsoft's carbon footprint," said Microsoft
President Brad Smith. "By 2030
Microsoft will be carbon negative, and by 2050 Microsoft will
remove from the environment all the carbon the company has emitted
either directly or by electrical consumption since it was founded
in 1975."
The Official Microsoft Blog has more information about the
company's bold goal and detailed plan to remove its carbon
footprint: https://blogs.microsoft.com/?p=52558785.
The company announced an aggressive program to cut carbon
emissions by more than half by 2030, both for our direct emissions
and for our entire supply and value chain. This includes driving
down our own direct emissions and emissions related to the energy
we use to near zero by the middle of this decade. It also announced
a new initiative to use Microsoft technology to help our suppliers
and customers around the world reduce their own carbon footprints
and a new $1 billion climate
innovation fund to accelerate the global development of carbon
reduction, capture and removal technologies. Beginning next year,
the company will also make carbon reduction an explicit aspect of
our procurement processes for our supply chain. A new annual
Environmental Sustainability Report will detail Microsoft's carbon
impact and reduction journey. And lastly, the company will use its
voice and advocacy to support public policy that will accelerate
carbon reduction and removal opportunities.
More information can be found at the Microsoft microsite:
https://news.microsoft.com/climate.
Microsoft (Nasdaq "MSFT" @microsoft) enables digital
transformation for the era of an intelligent cloud and an
intelligent edge. Its mission is to empower every person and every
organization on the planet to achieve more.
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