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Enabling a more sustainable world

Our actions alone won’t solve the climate crisis. We’re committed to helping build the enabling societal conditions that will support a net zero economy.
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Our global approach

We’re focused on accelerating the availability of new climate technologies, strengthening our climate policy agenda, and advocating for skilling programs to expand the green workforce.
Read about our progress

Investing in climate innovation

We’ve created a $1 billion Climate Innovation Fund to accelerate the global development of carbon reduction and removal technologies, as well as related climate solutions to reduce water use and waste.
Learn about the fund
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Heirloom

Our investment in Heirloom will support the deployment of durable, scalable carbon removal, which combines the advantages of carbon mineralization and direct air capture.

Learn about Heirloom

H2 Green Steel

Our investment in H2 Green Steel directly impacts our scope 2 and 3 emissions – the company aims to build the world’s first large-scale green steel plant with a 95% reduction in carbon emissions compared to traditional steel-making.

Learn about H2 Green Steel

FlexiDAO

We’ve invested in FlexiDAO to reliably track and verify carbon-free energy consumption. Its tool traces electricity and its carbon footprint hourly, providing the transparency customers need.

Learn about FlexiDAO

Vibrant Planet

Our investment in Vibrant Planet supports the use of complex data fusion and AI to map forests at fine scale. Its customers utilize the insights to monitor current conditions and devise strategies to mitigate wildfire and climate risk, improve climate adaptation, and enhance ecosystem services.

Learn about Vibrant Planet
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Accelerate sustainability solutions with AI features

Microsoft is investing in AI-based solutions in areas where progress on our global sustainability goals is bottlenecked. As the world enters a new era of AI, there is both an opportunity and an urgent need to focus the abilities of AI on accelerating sustainability.
Learn how we’re using AI Learn about AI for Good labs

Advocating for net zero

Microsoft and the broader private sector have an important role to play in advocating for effective and innovative sustainability policies. We pledge to use our voice on public policy issues to help advance global decarbonization efforts.
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Advancing carbon and electricity policy

Our briefs on carbon and electricity policy share the priorities and principles that guide Microsoft’s policy advocacy work around the world.

View our carbon policy brief View our electricity policy brief

Accelerating decarbonization and energy technology

Building on our electricity brief, we published a new policy brief that focuses on the role advanced nuclear and fusion energy technologies play in decarbonization and the priorities that guide Microsoft's policy advocacy.

View our advanced nuclear and fusion policy brief

Policy recommendations for green skilling

Our LinkedIn team met with climate and workforce government leaders during COP27 and COP28 to push for greater investment in green jobs and green skills development.

Read more about the work

Advancing progress with AI

In 2023, Microsoft published “Accelerating Sustainability with AI” -- the playbook outlines policy principles to govern AI and align it with sustainability outcomes.

View the playbook

Empowering the global workforce

To support our own work in sustainability and the needs of businesses around the globe, we see the need to dramatically change the landscape of green jobs and skilling across industries.
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Employee engagement

At Microsoft, we recognize that our employees are our most important asset and resource in advancing innovation in sustainability. We’re creating opportunities for them to contribute to our efforts.

Our employee community

Since 2018, Microsoft employees have self-organized into a volunteer-led sustainability community, the Sustainability Connected Community (SCC)—its mission is to make sustainability part of everybody’s job.

Learn about our employee community

Empowering employees to innovate

We tap into the ingenuity of our employees through Hack for Sustainability during our annual Microsoft Global Hackathon. In 2023, over 700 employees participated to create innovative AI solutions for environmental challenges. The winning projects this year focused on outcomes including reducing carbon intensity, improving carbon accounting, and utilizing generative AI in novel ways.

Green jobs and skilling

To transform the global economy, the sustainability workforce must grow quickly. Driven by new climate policies and commitments, we expect to see millions of new green jobs created globally. We’re taking action with LinkedIn to empower the workforce with the green skills needed to drive climate progress.
Learn about the needed skills
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Closing the Sustainability Skills Gap

To meet this demand, a vital effort is needed to equip companies and employees with a broad range of new skills needed for sustainability transformation. We published the Closing the Sustainability Skills Gap report to share what we have learned.

View the report

Sustainability Skilling at LinkedIn

LinkedIn Learning offers a growing catalog of sustainability skills courses to empower the workforce. LinkedIn also published the 2023 Green Skills Report which highlights global trends in the green economy.

Explore the catalog View the 2023 report
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