Microsoft has pledged that within the next 30 years it will remove all the carbon it has emitted since it was founded in 1975. While the company has vowed to be carbon negative by 2030, it is going further by aiming to remove its historical carbon footprint completely by 2050. The company also announced a one billion dollar climate innovation fund to help boost the development of carbon reduction and removal technologies. Today Microsoft announced an ambitious goal and a detailed plan to become carbon negative by 2030, remove our historical carbon emissions by 2050, and launch a $1B climate innovation fund. “That’s why today we are announcing an ambitious goal and a new plan to reduce and ultimately remove Microsoft’s carbon footprint.

Source: Irish Examiner January 16, 2020 20:03 UTC