Microsoft's Carbon Negative Ambition: Tech for a Greener Planet
This road leads to an ultimate green future. Microsoft claims it will offset its carbon emission by 2030 while becoming carbon-negative, an epitome representing head-on tackling of the climate change front. This means that the technology giant shall reduce carbon emissions from itself but take efforts that more carbon than what it produces in gaseous form is removed from the atmosphere into space. Thus, this can only set a high corporate sustainability bar for other enterprises to beat.
Microsoft has developed an extremely comprehensive strategy of emission reduction through its operations and supply chain. Since then, it has shifted data centers and offices to alternative energy sources, increased energy efficiency, and reduced dependence on fossil fuels. Carbon fee is another policy adopted by the company wherein it charges business units with their carbon footprint for the funding of sustainability initiatives.
The technology company has agreed to reach net-zero emissions from i
