This will purportedly be achieved through dramatic investment in carbon capture and storage technology, and carbon offsets (reforestation). The company intends to reach a carbon negative by 2030 through a halving of their current carbon output and massive investments in carbon removal. Microsoft will halve its current carbon emissions and invest in carbon sinks to become carbon ... [+] negative by 2030. This includes anything that can capture carbon dioxide from the air and/or sequester it underground, from forest restoration to carbon capture devices. Microsoft’s President Brad Smith acknowledges manufactured carbon capture devices “are not yet affordable and effective,” but remains confident that costs will drop as technologies improve and scale is achieved.

Source: Forbes January 24, 2020 14:03 UTC