Our global approach
Investing in climate innovation
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.
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.
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.
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.
Accelerate sustainability solutions with AI features
Advocating for net zero
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.
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.
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.
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.
Empowering the global workforce
Employee engagement
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.
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
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.
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.