Microsoft pledges to be carbon negative by 2030, remove all carbon it has ever emitted by 2050, and launch a $1B climate innovation fund
and its $1 billion infusion of cash — could ultimately make the tech cheaper and more appealing to other companies looking for new ways to go green.” Big thanks to @justcalma for breaking the @Microsoft story. Via @verge: https://www.theverge.com/... Matthew Ocko / @mattocko : Amazing - & welcome leadership by @satyanadella & @Microsoft, & achieves 3 things: 1. Exposes “big lie” that suicidal “business as usual” required for shareholder value 2. Magnet for likeminded customers & scarce talent 3. Puts Jeff @ risk of being called “Big Oil Bezos” 😬 https://twitter.com/... Dave McClure / @davemcclure : for the record, $1B is still *only* 0.1% of $1T MSFT market cap. https://twitter.com/... Emil Protalinski / @epro : Forget carbon neutral, @Microsoft has kicked off the carbon negative race https://venturebeat.com/... Nilay Patel / @reckless : Really interesting and bold move from Microsoft here — @BradSmi told me and other reporters in the room that they can even calculate the lifetime carbon emissions of an Xbox in the field and work towards removing them over time. https://www.theverge.com/... Alex Steffen / @alexsteffen : Microsoft's climate action plans. Lots of questions, obviously, but there's a clarity of understanding and seriousness of purpose here that show real climate leadership. https://blogs.microsoft.com/ ... @pinboard : Microsoft could (and should!) suspend its PAC entirely with no harm to the company, and great benefit to the country. Neither Apple or IBM has a political action committee. I wish the best of luck to employees continuing to work to defund Microsoft NETPAC! @pinboard : Today's promise from Microsoft of net-negative emissions resembles their vocal support for DACA, while funding anti-DACA senators. In both cases, their political donations remain diametrically opposed to the company's vocal public stance and the values of most Microsoft employees @pinboard : Microsoft employees fought to stop the company's incoherent and harmful political giving last summer, and got Microsoft to fire the head of their PAC and suspend political giving, but Microsoft resumed making political donations in October. Patrick Collison / @patrickc : The world's third largest company goes carbon negative. Kudos to Microsoft. https://twitter.com/... Rep. Pramila Jayapal / @repjayapal : Congrats to @Microsoft for setting a bold & ambitious goal, not just to eliminate its global carbon footprint—but to get to carbon negative by 2030 & invest $1B in getting others to do the same. #ClimateChange is an existential threat. It requires all-hands-on-deck. https://twitter.com/... @pinboard : Really important to remember in the context of today's announcement that Microsoft continues to make large political donations to climate denialists and obstructionists in Congress. See ‘Climate Change’ here https://idlewords.com/... https://twitter.com/... Kif / @kifleswing : great recruiting tactic to hire Amazon employees concerned about the environment https://twitter.com/... @pinboard : The MIcrosoft announcement is silly (you make software) but deserves big credit for acknowledging that negative emissions, not reduced or zero emissions, are the only way to ameliorate the climate crisis short of scary geoengineering stuff like setting off a lot of volcanoes Greenpeace Usa / @greenpeaceusa : .@Microsoft's new commitment to 100% renewable electricity for its own operations by 2025 with an additional goal to halve supply chain emissions by the end of this decade demonstrates that it understands climate science & the shrinking window for action. https://blogs.microsoft.com/ ... Thanks: @fxshaw
We have a responsibility to ensure that our actions and the products we build benefit everyone on the planet - and the planet itself. That's why today we are making new commitments to address climate change. https://blogs.microsoft.com/ ...
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. https://blogs.microsoft.com/ ...
.@Microsoft is going carbon negative by 2030. This is the kind of climate leadership we need. I'm proud to have them as partners in this fight. https://twitter.com/...
A carbon negative pledge by 2030, more responsibility for Scope 3 emissions, 100% renewables by 2025, and a $1billion fund for climate tech. @microsoft has seriously stepped up. https://twitter.com/...
Microsoft plans to be “carbon negative” by 2030, meaning it'll go beyond maintaining a zero carbon footprint & actively remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere They also plan to eliminate the impact of its own historic emissions going back to its 1975 founding by 2050 MS pres👇 …
So proud to be a long time @Microsoft customer and see this kind of bold leadership. Same with @stripe and @Shopify and their #CarbonNegative leadership. Let's do this! https://twitter.com/...
Yet Microsoft forces quite content Windows 7 users to switch to no better Windows 10 and, in the process, render perfectly good working printers and scanners to landfill. What price environment @Microsoft ? https://www.theverge.com/...
“Microsoft's backing — and its $1 billion infusion of cash — could ultimately make the tech cheaper and more appealing to other companies looking for new ways to go green.” Big thanks to @justcalma for breaking the @Microsoft story. Via @verge: https://www.theverge.com/...
Amazing - & welcome leadership by @satyanadella & @Microsoft, & achieves 3 things: 1. Exposes “big lie” that suicidal “business as usual” required for shareholder value 2. Magnet for likeminded customers & scarce talent 3. Puts Jeff @ risk of being called “Big Oil Bezos” 😬 https:…
Really interesting and bold move from Microsoft here — @BradSmi told me and other reporters in the room that they can even calculate the lifetime carbon emissions of an Xbox in the field and work towards removing them over time. https://www.theverge.com/...
Microsoft's climate action plans. Lots of questions, obviously, but there's a clarity of understanding and seriousness of purpose here that show real climate leadership. https://blogs.microsoft.com/ ...
Microsoft could (and should!) suspend its PAC entirely with no harm to the company, and great benefit to the country. Neither Apple or IBM has a political action committee. I wish the best of luck to employees continuing to work to defund Microsoft NETPAC!
Today's promise from Microsoft of net-negative emissions resembles their vocal support for DACA, while funding anti-DACA senators. In both cases, their political donations remain diametrically opposed to the company's vocal public stance and the values of most Microsoft employees
Microsoft employees fought to stop the company's incoherent and harmful political giving last summer, and got Microsoft to fire the head of their PAC and suspend political giving, but Microsoft resumed making political donations in October.
Congrats to @Microsoft for setting a bold & ambitious goal, not just to eliminate its global carbon footprint—but to get to carbon negative by 2030 & invest $1B in getting others to do the same. #ClimateChange is an existential threat. It requires all-hands-on-deck. https://twitt…
Really important to remember in the context of today's announcement that Microsoft continues to make large political donations to climate denialists and obstructionists in Congress. See ‘Climate Change’ here https://idlewords.com/... https://twitter.com/...
The MIcrosoft announcement is silly (you make software) but deserves big credit for acknowledging that negative emissions, not reduced or zero emissions, are the only way to ameliorate the climate crisis short of scary geoengineering stuff like setting off a lot of volcanoes
.@Microsoft's new commitment to 100% renewable electricity for its own operations by 2025 with an additional goal to halve supply chain emissions by the end of this decade demonstrates that it understands climate science & the shrinking window for action. https://blogs.microsoft.…