Microsoft—Microsoft pledged to become carbon negative by 2030 and remove all historical emissions by 2050
In January 2020, Microsoft announced plans to become carbon negative by 2030 and by 2050 to remove all carbon the company has emitted since its founding in 1975. Committed $1 billion Climate Innovation Fund and extended internal carbon tax to all operations including Scope 3. By 2025, contracted 34 GW of carbon-free electricity across 24 countries (18x increase since 2020) and nearly 30 million metric tons of carbon removal, though total emissions rose 23.4% vs 2020 baseline due to AI/cloud growth.
Scoring Impact
| Topic | Direction | Relevance | Contribution |
|---|---|---|---|
| Climate Action | +toward | primary | +1.00 |
| Corporate Transparency | +toward | secondary | +0.50 |
| Environmental Sustainability | +toward | primary | +1.00 |
| Overall incident score = | +0.983 | ||
Score = avg(topic contributions) × significance (critical ×2) × confidence (0.59)
Evidence (1 signal)
Microsoft announced commitment to be carbon negative by 2030 with $1B Climate Innovation Fund
Microsoft president Brad Smith and CEO Satya Nadella announced the company would become carbon negative by 2030 and by 2050 remove all carbon emitted since founding in 1975. Committed $1 billion Climate Innovation Fund and extended internal carbon tax to Scope 3 emissions.