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.
Decarbonizing our device supply chain
Meeting our decarbonization goal and achieving carbon negativity by 2030 requires focus on three key areas in our device supply chain: measurement and visibility, optimization control, and instilling technology and operational enhancements to drive emissions reduction and lead the industry.
Measurement and visibility
By mirroring and translating the financial budget into a carbon emissions budget for logistics, we enable precise emissions target setting for ongoing reporting. This increases transparency across the business and enables decision making and recalibration to the annual target and control annual results.
Optimization control
Containers for Xbox are loose loaded rather than palletized, improving speed and efficiency. In 2023, this process saved over 400 containers’ worth of emissions, or 280 mtCO2e.
Technology and operational enhancements
Electric vehicles and alternate fuel emissions remain a focus of outbound shipments and final mile deliveries. Approximately 25 percent of all online consumer deliveries were made with an electric or carbon neutral option. Our devices supply chain drove initiatives and solar installation across the distribution network.
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.