At Microsoft, we are dedicated to harnessing AI to drive innovation, enhance productivity, and foster sustainable growth across sectors.
In this blog, we show you how the ESG value chain solution in Microsoft Sustainability Manager enables you to gather data directly from your value chain partners, streamlining supplier engagement to gain a more comprehensive and accurate picture of those suppliers’ environmental impacts that contribute to your own company’s impacts.
Today, Microsoft published the 2024 Environmental Sustainability Report. This report covers fiscal year 2023, and measures progress against our 2020 baseline. You can read the foreword below and explore the report in its entirety.
During this wave, we’ve invested heavily in the development of copilot templates to enhance capabilities and integration across various industries. These customizable templates offer improved operational efficiency, enhanced customer engagement, and seamless integration with existing technology, all while supporting a diverse, global customer base.
With the emergence of generative AI, Microsoft Sustainability Manager continues to expand at a rapid pace, enabling an unprecedented level of interaction, analysis, and insight to help you make informed, data-driven decisions and drive change.
Reflecting on our continued momentum with partners and customers, we were excited to work with Bayer, ITC, and Headstorm on a mix of new solutions and announcements that uniquely help to address the needs of farmers and agronomists.
As announced in our This is AI … for Sustainability event in February 2024, Copilot in Microsoft Sustainability Manager, now in preview, simplifies and accelerates complex processes to help you accomplish tasks more efficiently.
With Azure Carbon Optimization, engineering and IT teams can use ready-to-consume insights and recommendations for optimizing their carbon emissions, all within the Azure portal. Microsoft Azure emissions insights enable data analysts and engineers to dive deeper into emissions data, allowing them to slice and dice the data and perform deeper analytics using Microsoft Fabric.
Announcing new data solutions and generative AI advancements in Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability and Microsoft Fabric with Copilot in Microsoft Sustainability Manager and other AI-powered features.
Circularity is an important means of reducing waste and resource consumption by keeping materials, products, and services in use for as long as possible. To help organizations measure and report their circularity performance, Microsoft Sustainability Manager now includes circularity data ingestion. 
New capabilities within the 2024 release wave 1 will be available from April 1, 2024, to September 30, 2024. This plan covers features for Microsoft Cloud for Retail, Azure Data Manager for Agriculture, Microsoft Cloud for Financial Services, Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability, Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare, and Microsoft Cloud for Nonprofit.
Many conversations at COP28 emphasized three ways to drive business growth alongside sustainability progress—through AI innovation, harnessing ESG data to deliver actionable intelligence, and collaborating across industries and sectors.
In this second part of our customer zero blog series, we share how we’ve used technology to advance our Scope 3 progress and how we’ve engaged with our suppliers to drive their own accountability and progress.
