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Microsoft is issuing this Request for Information (RFI) to engage with the research and technical community committed to driving to a carbon negative globe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In January 2020, Microsoft announced<\/a> a commitment and detailed plan to be carbon negative by 2030 and to remove from the environment all the carbon the company emitted since its founding by 2050. Over 2020, we built on this pledge by announcing a series of commitments to be water positive by 2030, zero waste by 2030, and to protect ecosystems by developing a Planetary Computer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We grounded our sustainability strategy and commitments in the belief that technology can help solve the world\u2019s biggest challenges. We believe that by focusing on all the ways we can drive change, we can make an outsized impact on climate change. We, and other organizations that are committed to an environmentally sustainable future, need to pull all levers of impact we have \u2014 including, and perhaps especially, partnering in innovation with the scientific community around the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Achieving these goals will be challenging and will require an interdisciplinary approach, new innovations, engineering to make it real, policies to make it tangible globally, and science: from developing research and technologies for scalable and affordable carbon negative economies, to finding incentives to remove carbon, to working collaboratively on enabling AI-based platforms to accelerate scientific areas such as material science, chemistry, or synthetic biology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n To that end, Microsoft is issuing this Request for Information (RFI) to engage with the research and technical community committed to driving to a carbon negative globe. This information from the community will be invaluable as we plan for future research collaborations and engagements focused on reaching carbon negative for all of humanity, globally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This RFI seeks input from members of the scientific community and sustainability stakeholders from academic institutions and public scientific organizations, including national labs, on driving to a carbon negative globe. Microsoft may use the responses to this RFI to inform future planning, including research summits and an open call for proposals to the academic community. For this specific RFI, we welcome ideas that can accelerate progress toward technological breakthroughs enabling economic, global scale application of the following topic areas:<\/p>\n\n\n\n All ideas are welcome, including those incorporating one or more of computational, simulation, machine learning, physical, chemical, biological, or synthetic biological approaches to these challenges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Interested stakeholders are invited to use this to provide their information. The submission form requires the following information:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Your response to this RFI is subject to Microsoft\u2019s Terms of Use (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>. Microsoft will use the information submitted in response to this RFI at its discretion and has no obligation to provide responses or comments to any responder\u2019s submission. No proprietary, classified, confidential, or sensitive information should be included in your response.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Direct any questions not answered here to mssusrfi@microsoft.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"featured_media":764794,"template":"","meta":{"msr-url-field":"","msr-podcast-episode":"","msrModifiedDate":"","msrModifiedDateEnabled":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":true,"_classifai_error":"","msr_hide_image_in_river":0,"footnotes":""},"msr-opportunity-type":[],"msr-region":[256048],"msr-locale":[268875],"msr-program-audience":[],"msr-post-option":[],"msr-impact-theme":[],"class_list":["post-764779","msr-academic-program","type-msr-academic-program","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","msr-region-global","msr-locale-en_us"],"msr_description":"Microsoft is issuing this Request for Information (RFI) to engage with the research and technical community committed to driving to a carbon negative globe.","msr_social_media":[],"related-researchers":[],"tab-content":[{"id":0,"name":"About","content":"Who can submit and on which topics<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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