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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Manufacturing and sourcing for sustainability
At Microsoft, we continue to work on improving the sustainability impact of our manufacturing and sourcing practices, including increasing the amount of renewable energy used in our manufacturing supply chain, improving the integrity of the decarbonization data shared by suppliers, and quantifying the decarbonization impact from our suppliers shifting to renewable energy.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.