Microsoft will be ‘carbon negative’ in 2030
Technology giant Microsoft plans to switch to electricity generated from 100 percent renewable energy in buildings and campuses, through energy purchasing agreements (PPA) to be made up to 2025. Microsoft is also aiming to fully electric the global fleet of vehicles up to 2030. By the company; in order to speed up the development of carbon reduction, capture and removal technologies in the global sense, 1 billion dollar will be created by the ‘Isle Innovation Fund’ and to reduce the carbon footprints of suppliers and customers, the initiatives will begin to use these technologies.. The Microsoft President Brad Smith, which was rated on the subject, said that they have been working to become a ‘carbon neutral’ company, and they managed it, said they identified their next goals as ‘carbon negative’.
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Microsoft’s CEO Satya Nadella said that it will create 1 billion dollar innovation fund to achieve the purpose of the company. However, beyond expanding carbon-absorbing forests among expectations, the use of carbon directly from the air, the capture and storage of carbon in the underground, the development of vehicles that will help carbon dissolve in water and more. Nadella also expressed the work of the climate crisis, which constitutes the agenda of the past year: “In the middle of scientific consensus clearly. Today the world faces an emergency carbon crisis. If we do not break the rise chart and the temperatures continue to rise, science tells us that the results will be destructive. It is necessary to take action on this topic. Includes companies. Because nobody can solve this macro problem alone. However, as a global technology company, we have a special responsibility for making it falling. “
Source: Sustainable Business