After Microsoft announced its new climate commitments at the turn of the new decade, they have focused on being transparent and showing how they’re learning as they go about business and how they are adapting parts of its business to complement its new climate commitments. Well, March 10th, 2022 marked a year since Microsoft’s last annual sustainability report, which showcased an in-depth look at Microsoft’s progress in 2021, aiming to become a carbon-negative, water-positive, zero-waste company by 2030. As a trusted Microsoft partner, here at Westwood, we are proud to echo Microsoft’s plans to become more eco-friendly and commit to becoming a zero-waste company.
Microsoft’s energy principles:
Since becoming more aware of their zero net future Microsoft has promoted some core energy principles company-wide in order to help work towards a better and more sustainable future within the IT and Business sectors. Some of these principles include:
- Microsoft will increase its engineering investments and efforts in low- and zero-carbon energy businesses to help accelerate the energy transition – seeking to expand work with organisations across the energy sector on initiatives focused on low- and zero-carbon.
- Microsoft is committed to helping all customers, including all energy customers, in the development of effective net zero commitments – this includes advising, consulting and providing technical and subject matter expertise.
- Microsoft will sell its commercially available software technology and cloud services to all customers, inclusive of energy customers – continuing to make commercially available software available to all companies who choose to purchase it.
- Microsoft may provide technical and engineering resources to develop or co-develop specialized services for subsurface exploration and extraction of fossil fuels with energy customers who have publicly committed to net zero carbon targets – this includes leveraging Microsoft technical or engineering resources to develop or co-develop specialised subsurface exploration and extraction services for an energy customer or providing Microsoft product or service subscriptions at no cost to energy customers who have a net-zero carbon target that is set to be attained by 2050 or sooner.
