Microsoft plans to go carbon negative by 2030
By 2030, Microsoft has promised to go carbon negative. Company’s President, Brad Smith has already chalked out a plan “to reduce and ultimately remove Microsoft’s carbon footprint” by 2050. The company said that it will use 100% renewable energy and by the end of the decade it will remove the carbon from the air that it has emitted since it was founded.
The ambitious pledge puts it out in front of many other tech companies, at least as far as promises go. Apple and Facebook have no timeline for carbon neutrality. Alphabet has been carbon neutral since 2007, five years longer than Microsoft, but hasn’t set a carbon negative goal.
Last year Amazon pledged to use 100% renewable energy by 2030. It has also aimed to go carbon neutral by 2040.
Microsoft has also plans of tree-planting and work with companies that capture and store carbon underground. It will also internally “tax” its divisions for carbon emissions and use that money to fund sustainability efforts.
Electricity is almost impossible to track through a grid, so most large companies reduce emissions by purchasing renewable energy credits. Credits “claim” green energy production on the grid, but allows them to still pull electricity from traditional producers.
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