Microsoft's ambitious climate plan aims to go carbon negative by 2030

Microsoft has also set up a $1 billion "climate innovation fund" to help accelerate carbon reduction, capture, and removal globally.

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Microsoft announced an ambitious plan to combat its impact on climate change.
The company aims to go carbon negative by 2030 and further plans to eliminate its historical carbon footprint from the atmosphere by 2050.
Microsoft also announced a $1 billion "climate innovation fund" to support carbon reduction, capture, and removal globally.


Microsoft today unveiled a climate plan that sets its sights on going carbon negative by 2030. If it succeeds, this means the company will eliminate more carbon from the atmosphere than it produces. Going further, by 2050, the company hopes to have eliminated enough excess carbon to match all of its emissions since Microsoft was founded in 1975.

"While the world will need to reach net zero, those of us who can afford to move faster and go further should do so," Microsoft president Brad Smith...