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Reduce emissions by holding more remote meetings

Microsoft Teams powers billions of remote meeting minutes each day, helping to reduce the carbon impact generated by global travel.

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Sustainable digital transformation

Improve business outcomes while reducing carbon emissions and energy consumption by migrating to Azure Cloud Services.

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Streamline work with an integrated cloud platform

Discover the benefits of Microsoft 365, which delivers industry-leading productivity apps like Microsoft Teams, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint while improving resource and energy efficiency.

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Make CRM and ERP more efficient

Run your entire business and deliver greater results using the intelligent business applications and predictive, AI-driven insights of Dynamics 365.

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Microsoft Sustainability Guide

Explore sustainability tools, resources, and products that can help you kick-start your sustainability journey. Looking for a good starting point? Read our e-book first to better understand the benefits of sustainability.

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Step 1: Take note of your carbon emissions

Start by categorizing your emissions. Once you’ve broken down the different types of emissions your organization produces, focus on where you can make the biggest impact. See how Microsoft’s Sustainability Calculator can help you understand your footprint.

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Step 2: Evaluate vendors, partners, and providers

Review who works with you and provides services. Ask them about steps they’re taking to reduce carbon emissions and investments they’re making in renewable resources. Partner with companies that share your goals.

Step 3: Create an incentive for teams to reduce carbon usage

A great way to do this is to charge groups a carbon fee based on their footprints. This helps keep everyone responsible for the company’s carbon impact.

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Step 4: Enlist employee support

Look to employees for innovative ideas and support. Often employees will share your vision for reducing the organization’s carbon impact on the environment—and they have in-depth understanding of the day-to-day actions within your organization.

Start your cloud migration journey

The Azure migration center offers proven tools and processes to guide you in migrating your on-premises applications, workloads, and databases to the cloud to save money and improve efficiency.

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Understand the environmental and cost benefits of the cloud

Lower operating costs, run your infrastructure more efficiently, and scale as needed—all while helping your company achieve its carbon emission reduction goals.

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Calculate what you can save by moving to the cloud

Estimate the cost savings you can realize by migrating your workloads to Azure.

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Speed progress toward carbon emission reduction with good migration planning

Accelerate your cloud adoption journey with the Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure, a collection of documentation, implementation guidance, best practices, and tools.

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Ensure your cloud’s security and reliability

Realize the potential of the cloud with Azure performance and reliability you can trust.

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* The results show that the Microsoft Cloud is between 22 and 93 percent more energy efficient than traditional enterprise datacenters, depending on the specific comparison being made. When taking into account our renewable energy purchases, the Microsoft Cloud is between 72 and 98 percent more carbon efficient. These savings are attributable to four key features of the Microsoft Cloud: IT operational efficiency, IT equipment efficiency, datacenter infrastructure efficiency, and renewable electricity procurement.

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Increasing energy efficiency with Azure

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Transforming data from IoT-enabled devices into actionable insights

Majans provides its frontline workers, management, and C-level decision makers with nearly real-time data using Microsoft Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management and IoT Intelligence.

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Calculate the cost benefits of switching to Dynamics 365

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Develop an IOT strategy that drives ROI

IoT fuels business growth and operational efficiency. Learn the six elements of a successful IoT strategy.

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Tips for implementing AI to drive ROI

Discover three ways to implement effective AI solutions.

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Learn how IKEA empowers its coworkers with Microsoft Teams

IKEA improves its sustainability by reducing paper-based processes and replacing travel with engaging digital collaboration supported by Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Teams.

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Limit travel to reduce carbon emissions

Transportation emissions contribute significantly to global climate change. For example, flying from New York to Paris once emits as much carbon as the heating for an EU household for a year. Reduce emissions like these with remote workforces empowered by Microsoft Teams.