Delivering digital technology for net zero
We’re committed to helping to provide the digital technology needed to build a more sustainable world and supporting our customers on their own sustainability journeys.
Expanding Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability
Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability helps empower organizations to track and manage data at scale and to unify environmental, social, and governance data so they can record, report, and holistically understand the sustainability impact of their organization and value chain.
Supporting partner solutions
Microsoft provides the technologies and platform to guide digital transformation. We work with a global ecosystem of partners, who provide the capabilities to unlock data and build industry solutions to improve sustainability outcomes.
Increasing transparency and promoting trust
Environmental Credit Service (Preview) delivers common, open-standards infrastructure and a shared process and data standard to help track the origination process for carbon credits and other environmental assets.
Improving design and efficiency with AI
We continue to focus on increasing the energy efficiency of our devices to reduce direct emissions, and to explore how AI can help improve the design and efficiency of our devices.
Enabling our LCA process with data and AI
Our life cycle assessments (LCAs) help to build sustainability into our devices with the goal of facilitating product and supply chain decision making at a larger scale. We’re partnering with Makersite to transform our LCA process with AI by shifting from directional modeling to a supply-chain-focused environmental impact accounting approach.
Advancing measurement and accountability
Microsoft has used optional diagnostic data from Windows devices to estimate power consumption since 2020, and each year we’ve worked to improve the quality of the methodology. We’re working with the Carbon Trust and other leading tech companies to develop an industry-first for tracking the carbon emissions associated with connected devices while being used by customers.
Developing standards, tools, and best practices
Microsoft continues to be a founding member of the Green Software Foundation (GSF) and contributes to several climate aware software tools and standards.
Helping to optimize Azure workloads
Microsoft developed new technical guidance and best practices to help customers and partners adopt and operate on Azure sustainably as part of the Cloud Adoption Framework.
Windows energy recommendations
With the introduction of Energy Recommendations in Windows 11, we continued the work we started to make Windows carbon aware—with a focus on empowering customers to reduce energy consumption and carbon emissions; and improve battery life.
The Planetary Computer
With over 120 data sources and over 50 petabytes of data, the Microsoft Planetary Computer maintains one of the largest collections of open data about our planet. Within the Planetary Computer, we provide open access to environmental monitoring data in consistent, analysis-ready formats.
