Create a sustainable future
Building the foundations and working to deliver on our sustainability commitments while helping our customers and partners achieve their own.
Carbon negative
By 2030, we’ll be carbon negative, and by 2050, we’ll remove our historical emissions since our founding in 1975.
Water positive
By 2030, we’ll be replenishing more water than we use.
Zero waste
By 2030, we’ll be zero waste across our direct waste footprint.
Protect and preserve ecosystems
We’ll protect more land than we use by 2025 and build a Planetary Computer.
2022 Environmental Sustainability Report
We’re taking action, making progress, and sharing learnings on our journey to meet our 2030 sustainability commitments.
Investment in carbon removal
We have invested in acquiring 1.4 million tons of carbon removal from various sources in fiscal year 2022 and recycling it into marketable products.
Creating a circular approach
We're adopting a more circular strategy for materials management by diverting over 12,000 metric tons of waste from landfills and incinerators in fiscal year 2022.
Increasing water access
We reached just under one million people with clean water and sanitation solutions by the end of the calendar year 2022.
Protecting more land than we use
We protected 12,270 acres of land in Belize—we now protect more than the 11,206 acres of land that we use.
Closing the sustainability skills gap
Over 3,500 companies globally have issued climate pledges—however, many lack a workforce with the skills to turn these pledges to progress. Our report shows the need to develop a new level of sustainability skills—and how we aim to help support the transformation.
Global Renewables Watch (GRW)
The GRW is a first-of-its-kind living atlas intended to map and measure all utility-scale solar and wind installations on Earth using artificial intelligence and satellite imagery, allowing users to evaluate clean energy transition progress and track trends over time.
Zero kitchen carbon emissions
Puget Sounds' first all-electric dining room solves the challenge of zero carbon footprint in the kitchen. Our new white paper shares our progress and experience for others to share.
“While the world will need to reach net zero, those of us who can afford to move faster and go further should do so.”
Brad Smith, Vice Chair and President
Eliminating carbon emissions by 2050
We are dedicated to finding solutions that have the greatest possible good impact, are transparent, and use market intelligence as one of the first businesses to source carbon removal.
Climate Innovation Fund
We're pledging $1 billion in funding over four years to invest in cutting-edge climate technologies and hasten the implementation of already-existing climate solutions. Climate impact, underfunded markets, climate equality, and shared alignment are the four themes that guide our investments.
Planetary Computer
The Planetary Computer combines a multi-petabyte collection of global environmental data with user-friendly APIs, a flexible scientific environment that enables users to respond to global queries about that data, and applications that provide conservation stakeholders access to those answers.
Supply chain integrity
Microsoft has relationships with hundreds of suppliers around the globe, and we work to ensure transparency and ethical standards across our supply chain. We collaborate with our suppliers to protect the fundamental rights of people at every step of the process—from sourcing to production and distribution.
Microsoft Climate Research Initiative
Accelerating cutting-edge research in climate science and technology is a priority for this multidisciplinary community of researchers.
Sustainability science
At Microsoft, we have a dedicated sustainability science team whose mission is to ensure that our sustainability work is grounded in the best available science. This drives our work in sustainability, from our climate commitments to partnering with our customers and partners on co-designing new solutions.
Your sustainability journey
Microsoft is using our experience to build solutions to accelerate your sustainability journey. No matter where you are, we can help you move forward.
Discover our solutions
Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability
Through environmental, social, and governance (ESG) capabilities, the Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability enables you to accelerate development and transform your company.
Accelerate your progress
Emissions Impact Dashboard
Make better data-driven decisions about your cloud usage by estimating your carbon emissions using Microsoft cloud services, such as Azure and Microsoft 365.
Learn how to track your data
The journey to water positive
In 2020, we set an ambitious commitment to be water positive and co-founded the Water Resilience Coalition (WRC), a CEO-led initiative to reduce water stress by 2050. We're building on this foundation with the WRC and signing an Open Call for Water Action to accelerate the collective impact businesses can have in building greater water resilience.
Xbox offers first carbon aware console
Xbox is now the first gaming console to offer carbon aware game downloads and updates. By being carbon aware, Xbox consoles are reducing their carbon footprints by optimizing updates and downloads to run at a time when each console can use the most renewable energy.
New Chief Sustainability Officer
We recently announced our new Chief Sustainability Officer, Melanie Nakagawa. Melanie joins Microsoft on the third anniversary of our ambitious climate goals to be carbon negative by 2030 and remove our historical carbon emissions by 2050.
Closing the Climate Data Divide in the Global South
To avoid the worst effects of climate change, governments and decision-makers in the Global South equally need access to reliable climate data. By harnessing the power of data and artificial intelligence to support new climate solutions, we’re expanding our collaboration with Planet Labs PBC and bringing our AI for Good Research Lab into Egypt and Kenya.
Support inclusive economic growth
Explore our inclusive approach
Protect fundamental rights
Learn how we support rights
