📈 Diagnostic
🏅Achievements
- Carbon neutrality across global operations
- 100% renewable electricity purchased from renewable sources
📊 Performance
Microsoft has roughly maintained the level of its emission thorugh the last 5 years, increasing its carbon compensation purchase slightly. However, due to strong revenue growth, the company improved the carbon effectiveness of its business
Even though its water impact has been increasing, its water impact is reducing due to investments in water replenishment projects
🧭 Strategy
Microsoft focuses its sustainability, climate impact and resource (SCIR) strategy onfour focus areas: carbon, water, waste and ecosystems, with five strategic pillars:
Strategic Pillars | Description |
Operations | Take responsibility for environmental footprints across the way products and facilities are sourced, manufactured, operated, and managed at end-of-life, including supply chain. |
Products and services | Develop new technology and services driven by data, AI, and digital technology to power environmental sustainability. |
Customers and partners | Help customers and partners around the world to reduce their carbon, water, waste, and land footprints through learnings, technology, and services. |
Policy and regulatory changes | Use the company’s voice on climate-related public policy issues. Support new public policy initiatives to accelerate carbon, water, waste, and ecosystems opportunities. |
Employees | Recognize that employees are the most important asset and resource in advancing innovation and will create opportunities for them to contribute to company’s efforts. |
🎯Goals & Actions
2025 - 100% renewable energy
2030 - Carbon Neutrality
2050 - Neutralize legacy emissions
- Improve operational and energy efficiency of datacenters & products
- Purchase of long-term clean energy power purchase agreements and small on-site energy generation
- Include supplier emissions as an explicit aspect of procurement process
2025 - Protece more land than it uses
- Land acquisition
- National park creation
2030 - Water Positive
- Reduce water intensity in operations
- Partner with NGOs to unsure that more then 1.5 Million people have access to water and sanitation
- Investments in wetland restoration, and removal of impervious surfaces like asphalt)
2030 - Zero Waste
- Servers and components will be reused
- Partner with companies to adopt circular economy innovation
- Eliminate single use plastics in all Microsoft's primary products packaging