Create a sustainable future

We have invested in acquiring 2.5 million tons of carbon removal from various sources and recycling it into marketable products.

We invested in replenishment projects that are expected to generate over 1.3 million cubic meters of volumetric benefits.

We're adopting a more circular strategy for materials management by diverting over 15,000 metric tons of waste from landfills.

We have made available 40 petabytes of data through the Planetary Computer to enable sustainability decision-making.

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.

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.

We published two briefs on carbon and electricity policy to share the priorities and principles that guide Microsoft’s policy advocacy work worldwide.

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.

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.

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.

Accelerating cutting-edge research in climate science and technology is a priority for this multidisciplinary community of researchers.

Microsoft Devices has relationships with hundreds of suppliers around the globe. We set high standards for our suppliers and collaborate to impact their workers and business operations positively.

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.

Norway’s national effort on carbon capture and storage, or CCS, is a rare example of collaboration on a grand scale to pursue climate goals. Norwegian government officials; Aker Carbon Capture; three oil-and-gas companies; Norcem; and Microsoft are among the disparate players working together to create a system to capture, transport, and store carbon dioxide.

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.

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.

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.