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Corporate Social Responsibility
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Our Microsoft sustainability journey

Our sustainability work starts with taking accountability for our operational footprint across our campuses, datacenters, devices, software, and value chain.

Our commitments

In 2020, Microsoft committed to becoming carbon negative, water positive and zero waste by 2030 all while protecting more land than we use.
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Carbon

We’re committed to being carbon negative by 2030 and by 2050 to remove from the atmosphere an equivalent amount of all the carbon dioxide our company has emitted either directly or by our electricity consumption since we were founded in 1975.

Water

Microsoft is committed to being water positive by 2030. We continue to scale our efforts to reduce water use across our operations, while increasing procurement from alternative sources and investing in innovative replenishment and access projects.
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Waste

As a company that manufactures devices, builds campuses and datacenters, and uses manufactured goods in our operations, we’ve committed to responsibly design and source materials and are taking an increasingly circular approach to reach our target of zero waste by 2030.

Ecosystems

We committed to protecting more land than we use by 2025 and have exceeded our target of 11,000 by more than 40%. In addition to our land protection commitment, we also focus on improving biodiversity at our campuses and datacenters by conducting thorough ecological assessments prior to beginning any new development.
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“If the world is going to meet net zero goals by 2050, companies need to use their entire ecosystem and all of their positions of influence.”

Brad Smith, Vice Chair and President

Science and research

The goals of our sustainability science and research programs are to help us achieve our own sustainability commitments, help our partners and customers achieve theirs, and catalyze solutions to key global sustainability problems.

Latest resources

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Charting a path forward for water replenishment

To address global water challenges, the replenishment market requires new ideas, technologies, players, and partnerships. We’re sharing our learnings as we continue to develop our water replenishment project portfolio.
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