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Millions of PCs that cannot be updated to Windows 11 will be without support and security updates after October 14, 2025. A huge waste to make many computers unfit for use on the net and to be recycled at best. Those who continue to use their computer get security problems and also contribute to the wanted spread of these. https://www.microsoft.com/sv-se/windows/end-of-support
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Microsoft and climate solutions provider The Next 150 have entered into a 6-year offtake agreement, wherein Microsoft will procure 95,000 tons of carbon removal credits from a newly established biochar production facility in Mexico. Biochar, also known as biological charcoal, is derived from biomass such as forest residue, wood, or crop waste. Produced in the absence of oxygen, biochar creates a stable form of carbon that, when buried in soil, enables long-term carbon sequestration while improving soil fertility. The Next 150, established in 2022 and based in Switzerland, focuses on developing and operating carbon removal ventures in emerging markets to generate positive environmental and financial outcomes. Under this agreement, Microsoft will receive carbon removal credits from The Next 150's General Biochar Systems (GBS) business unit's inaugural biochar plant in Guanajuato, Mexico. This facility, operational since May 2023, refines agricultural waste streams from crops like corn, wheat, and sorghum. It aims to supply biochar to approximately 23,000 local farmers as a sustainable soil amendment, enhancing crop yields, reducing reliance on chemical fertilizers, and mitigating plant stress during drought periods. The Next 150 plans to establish two additional biochar plants in Latin America by 2025. This agreement reflects Microsoft's commitment to carbon negativity by 2030 and the removal of all historical emissions by 2050. It is part of Microsoft's broader initiative to engage in various carbon removal projects worldwide, including nature-based reforestation, agroforestry, direct air capture (DAC), and ocean-based carbon removal solutions. This collaboration builds on Microsoft's recent biochar deal with the Exomad Green Concepción project in Latin America, further diversifying its portfolio of carbon removal initiatives. https://www.esgtoday.com/microsoft-signs-95000-ton-biochar-carbon-removal-deal-with-climate-solutions-startup-the-next-150/
Microsoft Signs 95,000 Ton Biochar Carbon Removal Deal with Climate Solutions Startup The Next 150 - ESG Today
Microsoft and climate solutions provider The Next 150 announced that they have signed a 6-year offtake agreement, with Microsoft purchasing 95,000 tons of carbon removal credits generated by a new biochar production facility in Mexico. Biochar, or biological charcoal, is produced by heating biomass, such as forest residue, wood or crop waste, in the absence […]
https://www.esgtoday.com/microsoft-signs-95000-ton-biochar-carbon-removal-deal-with-climate-solutions-startup-the-next-150/
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It's commendable that Microsoft has entered into a carbon removal deal with The Next 150, to secure the acquisition of 95,000 metric tons of carbon removal. This partnership underscores Microsoft's commitment to environmental sustainability and represents a proactive step towards addressing climate change through innovative collaborations.
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I would rather that Microsoft opened it's own biochar production, rather than buy credits on one that is already open.
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Solar energy supplies are massive; if we could harness all of the sunlight shining on the earth for just one hour, we could use that energy to power the entire world for a whole year. The sunshine used in solar energy production is free, and there’s lots of it. On the other hand, fossil fuels are running out, and fast. Reducing our reliance on these finite resources and taking advantage of an abundant, free source of energy, such as sunlight, could mean lower energy prices, reduced greenhouse gas emissions and a stronger, more stable energy future. https://www.greenbiz.com/article/microsoft-will-buy-enough-us-made-solar-panels-power-18-million-homes
Microsoft will buy enough U.S.-made solar panels to power 1.8 million homes | GreenBiz
The deal will fund 12 gigawatts from Qcells over the next eight years.
https://www.greenbiz.com/article/microsoft-will-buy-enough-us-made-solar-panels-power-18-million-homes
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This is a significant step towards promoting sustainable energy solutions and reducing reliance on fossil fuels.👏👏
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This is so great of Microsoft
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Socially, sustainable practices can help strengthen community bonds, improve quality of life and provide hope for a better future. Environmentally, sustainable practices can help protect natural resources, mitigate and adapt to climate change and promote biodiversity. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/industry/blog/sustainability/2023/06/15/introducing-new-esg-data-and-reporting-capabilities-in-microsoft-cloud-for-sustainability/
New ESG reporting capabilities with Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability - Microsoft Industry Blogs
New tools can play a critical role in helping organizations prepare for CSRD. We're announcing powerful new reporting capabilities to help organizations collect and manage more ESG data. Microsoft Sustainability Manager, a Cloud for Sustainability solution, is being expanded to give customers fuller visibility into their environmental impact across carbon, water, and waste. Learn more.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/industry/blog/sustainability/2023/06/15/introducing-new-esg-data-and-reporting-capabilities-in-microsoft-cloud-for-sustainability/
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Microsoft creating tech tools to enhance sustainable environments is really great
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Its truly a nice platform aiming to provide a nice sustainable environment
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This is a great platform created by Microsoft. It's a great way to create a sustainable environment.
Microsoft intends to transition to 100% renewable energy. They have a projected estimation of achieving this by 2025 and have realized carbon neutrality by 2030. They intend to have removed all the carbon that the company has been responsible for since its inception in 1975 as a correction measure by 2050. Read more; https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2020/01/16/microsoft-will-be-carbon-negative-by-2030/
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The article says 2020. Has anyone seen if there's an update on this? Hope they are keeping their word.
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More companies join the Frontier advance market commitment initiative, including Autodesk, H&M Group, JPMorgan Chase and Workday. Plus, Microsoft and Apple dedicate new funding to emerging carbon removal approaches. A non-trick question: Should your company invest in carbon avoidance or carbon removal? The answer is obviously both, but contracts linked to the latter — especially for methods that are high-quality and relatively "permanent" — remain ultra-pricey on a per-metric-ton basis. Slowly but surely, however, corporate support centered on removing excess carbon from the atmosphere is becoming more explicit, as several high-profile announcements showed this week. Apple expanded the focus of its Restore Fund to scale up nature-based carbon removal projects, doubling the amount of money it’s putting toward those approaches. Meanwhile, Microsoft disclosed its latest carbon removal contract Thursday — supporting enhanced rock weathering — and the Frontier carbon removal buyers collaboration gained $100 million more and its first non-tech corporate members. $1 billion and counting Frontier, the program founded last spring by Alphabet, Meta, McKinsey, Shopify and Stripe, has topped $1 billion in funding to help bring the per-metric-ton cost of investment closer to earth for projects that come to market between now and 2030. Frontier is structured as an advance market commitment. That means the program facilitates prepurchases of early-stage carbon removal technologies and approaches by creating the potential for long-term offtake contracts — similar to the corporate power purchase agreements used to help get renewable energy projects off the ground a half-decade ago. Frontier essentially aggregates the demand for these contracts, making it more cost-effective for companies on an individual basis. The effort launched with $925 million in funding. This week, the group is announcing another $100 million in backing from eight new members, including some big tech and non-tech players — Autodesk, H&M Group, JPMorgan Chase and Workday. "As the first fashion retailer and European company joining Frontier as a member, we want to inspire others in our industry to follow our example and become early buyers of carbon removal," said Henrik Sundberg, impact lead climate at H&M Group, in a statement. Two smaller companies, Aledade and Wise, are participating through a relationship that Frontier launched in January with Watershed, a purveyor of carbon accounting and GHG emissions management software. Watershed customers can join Frontier at a smaller financial commitment level. Boom, Canva, Skims and Zendesk have also joined as part of the Watershed relationship. Even smaller companies can participate through the Stripe Climate program, which allows companies using the Stripe payments platform for their business to designate a portion of their revenue for carbon removal initiatives. Buyers are looking for high-quality removal, knowing they are going to be buying [the price of] these tons down the cost curve. So far, Frontier has signed contracts with 15 companies across seven "pathways" including enhanced weathering (five projects), direct air capture (four), mineralization (two), biomass burial (one), bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (one), direct ocean capture (one) and synthetic biology (one). The collective impact of those projects is $5.6 million in contracts, with 8,993 metric tons of removal under the contracts that have been made public. Hannah Bebbington, strategy lead at Frontier, said the ultimate goal is to encourage approaches that can store excess atmospheric carbon for at least 1,000 years without reyling on arable land. The holy grail price point that many believe is required for mainstream corporate participation is $100 per metric ton. While Frontier hasn’t disclosed what its members will be paying, some of these projects currently command up to $2,000 per ton. "Buyers are looking for high-quality removal, knowing they are going to be buying [the price of] these tons down the cost curve," Bebbington said. The biggest prepurchases made so far by Frontier are for projects being developed by two companies working on mineralization. It has committed to 1,269 metric tons from Carbon to Stone of Ithaca, New York, which is working on a process to mineralize alkaline wastes such as steel slag, creating carbonate materials for use in alternative cements. And Frontier has prepurchased 2,198 metric tons from Cella, a company based in both New York in Nairobi that is injecting CO2 into volcanic rock in combination with saline water and geothermal brine waste. Bebbington said Frontier is receiving inbound interest from outside the tech industry and the U.S. "That diversity is super important," she said. Apple adds $200 million, Microsoft signs contract in UK Diversity outside tech is certainly important, but some of the biggest brands in technology continue to be the biggest backers of carbon removal projects. Apple continues to bet on nature-based approaches with the addition of $200 million for its Restore fund, which it launched in 2021 with Conservation International and Goldman Sachs. The new money will be managed by Climate Impact Management, a joint venture of HSBC Asset Management and Pollination. The goal is to invest in projects that can remove 1 million metric tons of CO2 from the atmosphere each year while generating financial returns for the investors. (The focus of the first fund was on working forests, native forests, grasslands and wetlands.) The expanded funding will be for two types of projects: "nature-forward" agricultural projects that center on sustainable farming practices and ecosystem restoration initiatives with measurable outcomes. To monitor the projects, Apple will use these technologies: Space Intelligence’s Carbon and Habitat Mapper, Upstream Tech’s Lens platform and satellite imagery from Maxar Technologies. We think opting to contribute early on to SeaO2’s research and development is a more worthwhile way to compensate for our emissions as a company ... The focus of Microsoft’s latest carbon removal is also linked to agriculture. It has contracted for 5,000 metric tons of removal over the next 20 years using enhanced rock weathering technology from Undo, a U.K. company. Under the agreement, Undo will spread 25,000 metric tons of basalt rock on farmland across the U.K. The credits tied to the project were sold using methodology endorsed by the International Carbon Reduction and Offset Alliance. Microsoft will take a part in funding the technology used to measure, report and verify the impact. "Enhanced rock weather offers a great deal of potential, and we are excited by the prospect of having this nature-enabled approach as an additional pillar of our permanent carbon removal portfolio," said Rafael Broze, engineered carbon removal lead at Microsoft, in a statement. Not just the usual suspects I’ll end by mentioning another development in corporate carbon removal contracts this week that is notable not for the size of the commitment but for the fact that it was made by a company smaller than the other headliners. The deal involves Ledgy, a London-based company that makes a platform companies can use to manage corporate equity plans, and SeaO2, an ocean-based carbon capture startup from Amsterdam. The agreement calls upon Ledgy to prepurchase six metric tons of removal from SeaO2’s first prototype, located in the North Sea. The contract is worth "only" $23,722, but it represents the sort of corporate support that these projects require to stimulate funding and more investment. "What excites us most about SeaO2’s business model was the team’s clear progression plan from a first working prototype this spring through extracting thousands of tons per year by 2025," said Ben Brandt, co-founder and chief product officer of Ledgy, in a statement. "At Ledgy, we believe entrepreneurs are going to be central to solving the world’s most pressing challenges. That’s why we think opting to contribute early on to SeaO2’s research and development is a more worthwhile way to compensate for our emissions as a company, aiming for maximum long-term impact instead of short-term offsets and grand claims of carbon neutrality."
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Great initiative
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A step in the right direction
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A great initiative.
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Microsoft has partnered up with Alfa Laval to create new innovative and digital solutions that maximize energy efficiency to make sure that heat exchangers run optimally. This can potentially reduce global carbon emissions by up to 2.5 percent. Our heat exchangers play a massive role in limiting global carbon emissions by reducing energy use. More than 40% of the global emission reductions needed by 2040 will come from reducing our energy use*, and heat exchangers can help us do just that. Every year, Alfa Laval instal and service millions of heat exchangers, reducing capacity needs by 100GW.That is enough to prevent 50 million tonnes of CO2 emissions from entering the atmosphere, or the amount of carbon emitted by Sweden every year. “The heat exchangers play an extremely important part in abating the climate crisis, because they are actually everywhere,” says Madeleine Gilborne, Head of Clean Technologies, and Vice President of the Energy Division at Alfa Laval. We are always looking for new ways to improve and find new innovative solutions.. In partnership with Microsoft we have delivered a new energy saving solution. Our heat exchangers may lose efficiency over time if they are not maintained properly, and this can lead to a significant increase in energy use. Today, up to 2.5% of the world’s CO2 emissions could be prevented if heat exchangers performed optimally and were serviced regularly. If it was easier for our customers to maintain their heat exchangers, less energy would be wasted in this way. By working with Microsoft we have been able to create digital solutions to this problem. For example, Microsoft has developed software that uses a thermal recognition camera and an AI function to detect heat signatures around a heat exchanger. This picture is then immediately uploaded to Alfa Laval’s database, and the software automatically suggests actions from our experts that make sure that the heat exchanger returns to optimal efficiency. This makes it easier for our customers to maintain their heat exchangers themselves, saving them energy, time, and money. “That is the foundation of our partnership - to digitize intelligence,” says Christoffer Sundgren, Senior Industry Executive at Microsoft. To learn more about our work in energy efficiency, tune in to the We Don’t Have Time COP27 broadcast on November 11th. Find the program here: https://wedonthavetime.org/cop27 Read Microsoft’s customer story about this partnership: https://customers.microsoft.com/en-us/story/1554336748749111219-alfa-laval-discrete-manufacturing-azure-en-sweden *https://www.iea.org/commentaries/how-energy-efficiency-will-power-net-zero-climate-goals https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42fATIgI3L8
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We all need each other to solve climate crisis
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Let's have more such partnerships...
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Together we are the solution.
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Microsoft's Middenmeer data centers consumed 84 million liters of drinkable water in 2021, four to seven times more than the commitment made. Microsoft and the municipality of Hollands-Kroon, in the Netherlands, had committed to using between 12 and 20 million liters of drinkable water per year at the Middenmeer site, where the company operates several data centers. According to an investigation by Noordhollands Dagblad, the adjusted figures of water consumption by Microsoft published by the municipality indicate that Microsoft used 75 million liters to cool its data centers and 9 million liters for other uses. The Dutch government revealed that the 28 data centers in Wieringermeer, where Microsoft and Google are located, used 550 million liters of drinkable water, or 0.5% of the region's total drinkable water supply. Source: https://www.noordhollandsdagblad.nl/cnt/dmf20220810_68483787?utm_source=google&utm_medium=wedonthavetime
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They should look for alternatives... This is unbelievable
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Is there a possibility for this data site to use salt water? This could be a good method to control flooding in the NL... ?
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I don't know about saltwater but grey water should definitely be considered as an option
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Microsoft has published a video demonstrating how users can repair themselves Surface Laptop SE. In the video, Microsoft's engineer methodically disassembles the computer piece by piece at the same time as he explains each step in detail. Microsoft Surface Laptop SE is a budget laptop that is specifically intended to be used for school work. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVjjSqfp75g
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This is great! I am just waiting for a fully circular computer (cc @PrimeComputer)
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This tech industry leader is modeling responsible corporate behavior for fighting climate change. In 2021, Microsoft upped its internal carbon emissions fee to $40 per metric ton of emissions. The company plans to shift to 100% renewable energy by 2025 and become carbon negative by 2030. By 2050, it hopes to remove all the carbon that the company has been responsible for since its founding in 1975. There are also plans to make the company’s corporate base 100% zero-waste and power all new buildings on renewable energy alone. Microsoft is also focusing on the power of AI development to implement sustainability initiatives that minimize the negative environmental impact of farming while developing solutions for pulling carbon from the atmosphere, fighting wildfires, and protecting endangered species. The goal is that Microsoft customers can then use this technology to reduce their carbon footprints. Read more here https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2020/01/16/microsoft-will-be-carbon-negative-by-2030/
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I love how Microsoft has a long term plan drawn out, as a fan of the company it makes me feel like they have my support as a gamer and overall in their company.
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Sounds great, but I have always wondered what is that special with 2030? Why can´t Microsoft do it by 2025 or 2027?
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Dear Ibrahim Farkash Thank you for getting your climate love to level 2! We have reached out to Microsoft and requested a response. I will keep you updated on any progress! /Adam We Don't Have Time
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Microsoft is working to reduce emissions from Windows Update. In a future update, Windows will keep track of the type of energy source your power currently comes from and will try to install updates "when larger amounts of clean energy sources (such as wind, solar and hydropower) are used. The data will come from https://app.electricitymap.org/map and Watttime. The "Open with" menus in Windows 11 will also get a new design in an upcoming update and examples of this we see below. Read more: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/03/microsoft-is-trying-to-lower-carbon-emissions-via-windows-update-of-all-things/
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That's a great step!
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Tech giant Microsoft announced today the launch of a new sustainable data center region in Sweden, enabling businesses to host their cloud workloads in Microsoft’s Swedish datacenters powered by 100% carbon-free energy. The region includes 3 data centers, located in Gävle, Sandviken, and Staffanstorp. Microsoft state that its new data center region in Sweden is committed to cutting carbon emissions, achieving zero waste certification, and running on 100% carbon-free energy, through a 24/7 energy matching partnership with electricity provider Vattenfall. Microsoft and Vattenfall announced the collaboration last year, after piloting a 24/7 solution, designed to match the production and consumption of renewable energy over short time increments, enabling more complete use of renewables by companies, and providing better transparency regarding energy use and climate impact. Microsoft also announced that it has signed agreements for new renewable energy projects with several companies including bp, Enlight Renewable Energy, European Energy, NTR, Prime Capital, and wpd. https://www.esgtoday.com/microsoft-launches-100-carbon-free-energy-powered-datacenter-region-in-sweden/
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Microsoft has won the UN Global Climate Action Award - Carbon Neutral Now - for its fantastic performance in reducing and eradicating its carbon footprint. The multi-billion dollar company is set to be completely carbon negative by 2030 and by 2050, aims to have completely removed all the carbon it has generated since its founding in the year 1975. Microsoft has long been a leader in carbon reduction, having made and executed on goals to reduce its emissions from 2007 by 30% in 2012, and has been carbon neutral since 2012. It's also showcased just how beneficial going green can be, as the UN report on their carbon reduction showed that the company has purchased over 30 billion kilowatt-hours (kWh) of green power, cut its emissions by 20m metric tons, offset the emissions of 8.2 million people in emerging nations, and saved more than USD 10 million per year - as a result. And since 2020, Microsoft’s Climate Innovation Fund, aims to invest $4bn in green initiatives and technologies to empower people around the world to address the issues of climate change. It's truly encouraging to see a company that is not only negating its own carbon impact over the 20th century and beyond, but taking steps to allow communities, other businesses and peoples to do the same for themselves. At COP26 - Microsoft, and its founder Bill Gates, are leading by example. You can read more about their efforts and the award here: https://unfccc.int/climate-action/un-global-climate-action-awards/climate-neutral-now/microsoft-carbon-negative-goal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGyOt8Ep0fQ
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No mention of non-pollution energy use or zero exhaust machines, just vague promises and minor improvements.
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Great effort by Microsoft, will be interesting to see the details of how they plan to achieve this goal.
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What are the other big tech companies doing?
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Today, Microsoft and the investor advocacy nonprofit As You Sow reached an agreement concerning a shareholder resolution In a first-of-its-kind agreement concerning a shareholder resolution. In June, As You Sow urged Microsoft to analyze the “environmental and social benefits” of making device repair easier. After months of negotiations, Microsoft has committed to increasing access to spare parts and repair documents. They have agreed to study how repair can reduce their contributions to climate change and decrease electronic waste. Further, they have agreed to act on the findings of the study by the end of next year. This is the first time a U.S. manufacturer has agreed to change its repair policies following investor pressure. https://grist.org/accountability/bowing-to-investors-microsoft-will-make-its-devices-easier-to-fix/
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Desktops and laptops are relatively repairable, smaller devices like phones and tablets not so much. I've got three phones sitting at home that could be fixed (1 just needs a battery which is purposely non replaceable). Also (as with other types of things) , the repair cost is often the same or more than replacing it.
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Good news. Microsoft should engage @kylewiens of @ifixit as a consultant on this matter.
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We still need "right to repair" legislation, as, without it, large corporations can withdraw their support for independent repairs at any time.
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Amazon, Disney, and Microsoft are all supporting groups fighting climate legislation in the build-back better bill despite making promises to combat climate change. The bill that they’re opposing has been called “the most significant climate action in our country’s history” by Chuck Schumer, the Democratic leader in the US Senate. All these companies have expressed grave concern for our planet’s health and have announced their own goals to cut CO2 emissions. Jeff Bezos has said that the climate crisis is the “biggest threat to our planet” and the company he founded, Amazon, has created a pledge for businesses to cut their emissions to net-zero by 2040. Microsoft has promised to be “carbon negative” within a decade from now and Disney is aiming to use only renewable-sourced electricity within the same timeframe. But these leading companies, and others, are now either supporting or actively steering the lobby groups that are attempting to sink the Build Back Better bill. The bill that many think might be America's last chance to show climate leadership and help prevent the world from plunging into a new, barely liveable climate. It is time to walk the talk – Support the Build Back Better Build Now.
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Researchers summarize the lessons learned from Microsoft’s carbon-removal efforts, along with those from another early corporate procurement — the $9-million purchases of carbon removal in 2020 and 2021 by the US–Irish financial-infrastructure company Stripe. The study highlights three ‘bugs’ in the current system: inconsistent definitions of net zero, poor measurement and accounting of carbon, and an immature market in CO2 removal and offsets. These challenges need to be overcome if the world is to reach net zero by mid-century. First, the supply of solutions capable of removing and storing carbon viably is a tiny proportion of that needed to reach global net-zero emissions by 2050 (which is an anticipated 2–10 gigatonnes of CO2 per year)2. Although Microsoft received 189 proposals offering 154 megatonnes of CO2 (MtCO2) over the coming years, only 55 MtCO2 were available immediately, and a mere 2 MtCO2 met Microsoft’s criteria for high-quality CO2 removal. Stripe’s 47 carbon-removal proposals amounted to 16 MtCO2, but only 0.024 MtCO2 met the company’s requirement that carbon remain sequestered for at least 1,000 years. Second, the scarcity of proposals that met the companies’ criteria reflects a lack of standards and clear definitions. Roughly one-fifth of proposals to Microsoft focused on avoiding new emissions, not on withdrawing CO2 from the atmosphere; these were rejected. Others lacked the technical information needed to ensure reliability. Indeed, there’s no standard way to measure, report and verify carbon removed. Such ambiguity is a barrier to investment. Third, systems for accounting for carbon removal do not distinguish between short- and long-term forms of CO2 storage (see ‘Some carbon-removal strategies’). This distorts the market and discourages investments in more-durable solutions. Nature-based storage projects sequestering carbon for less than 100 years accounted for most proposals that Microsoft received (in total, more than 95% of CO2 volume). It is cheaper and easier to establish trees and enrich soils than to deploy nascent technologies that capture carbon and store it geologically. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02606-3
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This is an extremely relevant information. What it tells me is that we are still in the stage where most people believe that we can somehow reverse the human CO2 emissions. While people in developed countries tend to be sceptical about science and technology theyat the same time trust that these discipline come up with an easy solution to keep living the life we have lived for the last 200 years. The data indicates that this is an illusion.
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True, we must change the way of life completely 360°, we can not continue only with small changes and expect the condition of the planet magically to improve just because we want to.
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Great work Microsoft! We pre-ordered for our team! https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=D_mFSryNlC4&feature=youtu.be
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Someone listened to the panel 😉
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“the Business Roundtable [is] a lobby group that [Intel CEO] Gelsinger belongs to along with top executives at corporations like Apple, Microsoft, BlackRock, and Disney. The Roundtable is reportedly waging “a significant, multifaceted campaign” costing potentially millions of dollars to defeat the corporate tax hikes which would help fund and make possible Biden’s Build Back Better plan” “If the CEOs who belong to the Roundtable are successful in defeating the corporate tax increases at the heart of Biden’s spending plan, however, it could drastically reduce our chances of avoiding the 1.5 degrees Celsius rise in global temperatures that scientists say is required to prevent climate catastrophe, says Danielle Deiseroth, senior climate analyst at the progressive polling organization Data for Progress.” https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/build-back-better-reconciliation-bill-business-opposition-1229461/
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Sad to read this about Microsoft and the other huge corporations
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Not only corp tax increases , but also tax fraud: https://app.wedonthavetime.org/posts/c5719060-7b71-4fa6-b11f-9e56ad09d4ce?utm_source=url-copy&utm_medium=wdht-rn-app-share&utm_campaign=douglas_marett I note that most EU countries have lower corp tax than the US, but individuals pay more tax in the EU. So the dynamic of who pays it important.
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Microsoft enables digital transformation for the era of an intelligent cloud and an intelligent edge. Its mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. In January 2020, Microsoft committed to be carbon negative by 2030 and remove from the environment all the carbon it has emitted directly or by electrical consumption by 2050. The company has been carbon neutral since 2012 and is committed to promoting sustainable development and low-carbon business practices globally through its cloud-enabled technologies. https://www.theclimatepledge.com/us/en/Signatories/microsoft.html As a part of 'The Climate Pledge' Microsoft announces an ambitious goal and a detailed plan to become carbon negative by 2030. Not only for their direct emissions but for their supply and value chains. They’re also committing that by 2050 they’ll remove from the environment all the carbon Microsoft has emitted either directly or for electricity consumption since the company was founded in 1975. They’re share with us in this video the new steps they’re taking, including work with their customers and the launch of a new $1 billion Climate Innovation Fund to accelerate the development of new technology to get us to our goals faster. Reaching these goals starts with understanding – and getting real – about carbon math. In this brief explainer video, Microsoft Chief Environmental Officer Lucas Joppa explains how the accounting works. https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2020/01/16/microsoft-will-be-carbon-negative-by-2030/ Well done Microsoft! 👏 Now how can Microsoft empower We Don't Have Time to achieve more? As it is Microsoft's mission to empower every person and every 'organization' on the planet to achieve more. Maybe an exposure boost could be in question? 🤔 We look forward to hearing your response. 💚 https://youtu.be/wj0UrF2T130
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Dear Joel Courtidis Thank you for getting your climate idea to level 2! We have reached out to Microsoft and asked what they think. I will keep you updated on any progress! /Adam We Don't Have Time
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We would be happy to work with Microsoft (again) if they could step up their green services here and now! In fact. We switched our server hosting from Microsoft to Google because they can guarantee us that we use 100% renewable energy. Microsoft has great ambition but is not there yet regarding their server hosting they are still using fossil fuel.
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I would suggest buy into future nuclear energy and geothermal project energy-contracts. By this you can support the hard part of getting to zero carbon in the world. These sources, have it tough against cheap natural gas. Which we need for energy security. Also give computing/database resources to companies in those sectors so they can use there finances better.
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@joel_courtidis_160 yes, I have. I can also recommend: Pandora's promise The new fire Juice how electricity explains the world Thorium the far side of nuclear And thorium remix on yt, interviews/docs And or Gordon McDowell his own channel, with interviews etc.
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Microsoft and Alaska Airlines announced a partnership to use sustainable jet fuel to offset emissions from the technology giant's employee travel. Under the agreement, Microsoft will cover the costs of fuel produced from sustainable resources, like waste oils and agricultural residues, which will result in reduced carbon emissions. The deal is part of Microsoft's initiative aimed at being carbon neutral by 2030. https://www.esgtoday.com/microsoft-and-alaska-airlines-partner-to-reduce-environmental-impact-of-business-travel/
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I Don’t agree with this, because it is greenwashing. There are more from this initiatives. NEST is one of them. They say they solved the problem because they used plantbased and restoilproduct like oil and grease from the kitchen. The last one is good but fuel made of food (plants) is not good. And the mounth of pollution from plains stay the same. Its better to fly less and take the train
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Nice but doesn't suffice. I know everyone is hard at work now but with the very big players we still need to keep a close look that it doesn't end in infective, or at the worst, greenwashing projects. This is something at the edge of ineffective, I'd think. But then again, we have nothing in air travel yet. No viable alternative except for flying less.
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It may not be a solve-all plan like others said, but the important thing is that it's a very good start, and the first of its kind too 😊 thanks for sharing, hopefully they will expand the plan in the coming days and hopefully other businesses follow suit!
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Day 383: July 27th, 2020. I don't know if you noticed, but there has been a large influx of companies pledging to be carbon neutral by 2030, 2050 or sometime in the near future. So hooray! Corporations are finally taking the big leaps we need to take to actively combat climate change! However, some companies you might've expected to release a carbon neutral plan the same time other big players did - have remained quiet. Like Microsoft, why are they not saying anything about going carbon neutral? It's because they already have been for almost a decade. . Microsoft started operating carbon neutral in 2012, but it's not stopping there when it comes to the company's sustainability goals. By 2030, Microsoft has pledged to go carbon negative, accounting for both the emissions from itself and its supply chains. They also pledged that by 2050 they will have removed as much carbon from the atmosphere as Microsoft and its supply chains have released since the founding of the company in 1975! Time will tell if Microsoft sticks to their plan, but if they can, they will be paving the way for other companies to follow suit. . . Read more about their carbon goals: https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2020/01/16/microsoft-will-be-carbon-negative-by-2030/ or read about Microsoft's other goals: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/corporate-responsibility/sustainability . . #sustainable #sustainablebusiness #sustainability #microsoft #carbonneutral #carbon #carbonfootprint #gogreen #pixelplanet #pixelart #pixelartist #pixeldailies #naturelovers #natureart #naturefacts #withoutatrace
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@microsoft step in right direction
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It's great. I just can't square it with the fact that tech companies are providing machine learning tech to oil companies to improve reservoir models: https://oilprice.com/Energy/Crude-Oil/Microsoft-And-Halliburton-Are-Building-The-Oilfield-Of-The-Future.html
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Yeah I hope all of the tech companies that have outstanding contracts with fossil fuel companies will rethink them, because I don't think Microsoft's carbon negative plan includes companies that it holds contracts with. Progress is progress, but I agree, while it's hard to pass up on money-making opportunities like fossil fuel contracts, I think all tech companies should support initiatives that look toward the future.
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Microsoft has pledged to remove all carbon emitted since they were founded in 1975. That goes beyond a pledge by its cloud-computing rival Amazon, which intends to go "carbon neutral" by 2040. Microsoft president Brad Smith, says: "When it comes to carbon, neutrality is not enough.” https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-51133811 0:09. “Microsoft is committing to a more sustainable future for all”. Man talking on stage, microsoft logo in background. https://youtu.be/LeQxTI-s48A?t=9 0:44. “Remove our historical emissions”. https://youtu.be/LeQxTI-s48A?t=44
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Dear Johannes Luiga Thank you for getting your climate love to level 2! We have reached out to Microsoft and requested a response. I will keep you updated on any progress! /Adam We Don't Have Time
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They're still selling software to oil companies to be able to extract a lot more oil and fracking more gas than earlier.
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Yeah this is really important to remember to get the full picture
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Microsoft is leading the way amongst tech companies to improve their environmental record, setting the target for carbon negativity. The company plans the creation of a $1bn fund to develop carbon reduction, capture, and removal technologies, to reach their goal of removing more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere than it is producing by 2030. By 2025, all of the company’s assets will be powered by renewable energy. Microsoft also claims to include supply chain partners and scope three emissions. By tackling these emissions head-on, Microsoft could help set a new standard for accountability in the tech sector! https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2020/04/15/a-healthy-society-requires-a-healthy-planet/
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@microsoft set the standard faster/challenge yourself to a more inspiring time line; Will you even be in business 10 years from now? #wedonthavetime
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Despite their ambitious plan to get "carbon negative" by 2030 announced last week, Microsoft is actively supporting the fossil fuel industry by 1) sponsoring an oil conference and 2) planning to keep doing business with the fossil fuel industry. Decreasing the company's own emissions is is a good first move, but if we are to have any chance at mitigating the climate crisis, every action taken and every business opportunity pursued needs to contribute to a fossil free and sustainable future. Therefore, Microsoft needs to stop selling their technologies and services to customers in the fossil fuel industry. Sure, the fossil fuel industry has plenty of 💰💰💰, but doing business with the goal of empowering them to increase fossil fuel production is counterproductive, greedy and makes it hard to believe that Microsoft is serious about mitigating the climate crisis. If they really were serious about working towards a sustainable future, they would not only work to reduce their own emissions (scope 1-3), but more importantly, they would rethink their whole business to stop working with customers who are destroying any prospects of a sustainable future. When Microsoft actively support the fossil fuel industry like this, they are essentially doing the equivalent of an arms manufacturer selling weapons to a third party that use them in warfare. In this case, the fossil fuel industry, fighting a war with life on Earth. So, Microsoft - which side will you choose in this war against life on planet Earth? Will you actively keep supporting the fossil fuel industry? Or will you be a true leader, only working with customers fighting for a sustainable future? Source: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/xgqypn/while-microsoft-was-making-its-climate-pledge-it-was-sponsoring-an-oil-conference "But while Microsoft would like the world to believe its oil and gas contracts are about saving the planet, articles published last week in the International Conference on Petroleum Technology’s daily newsletter tell a different story about what the company is selling: Machine learning tools can be used to surveil oil fields; AI that can anticipate maintenance needs in advance to avoid shutdowns; cybersecurity systems can help oil clients keep their big datasets secure. These services make Microsoft “a reliable choice and an enabler for oil and gas companies,” concludes one article, which mentions transitioning off fossil fuels exactly nowhere." Articles about Microsoft plans to support the fossil fuel industry: 1) http://2020.iptcnet.org/__media/show-daily-f6un/20IPTC-Show-Daily-Day02--LR-13Jan-Final.pdf 2) http://2020.iptcnet.org/__media/show-daily-f6un/20IPTC-Show-Daily-Day-3-LR-15.pdf Image source: Microsoft ads in the two linked PDF-documents above.
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Dear Samuel Plumppu Thank you for getting your climate warning to level 2! We have reached out to Microsoft and asked for a response. I will keep you updated on any progress! /Adam We Don't Have Time
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This could be seen as a huge warning to Microsoft - or as a huge opportunity to improve their business, and the values they contribute for the world. They could massively decrease their indirect emissions just by choosing better customers and partners.
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They should stop, please. We are running out of time.
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The Microsoft Corporation has announced an ambitious goal and a new plan to reduce and remove its carbon footprint. By 2030, Microsoft will be carbon negative. By 2050, they will remove from the environment all the carbon the company has emitted either directly or by electrical consumption since it was founded in 1975. At an event at its Redmond campus, Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella, President Brad Smith, Chief Financial Officer Amy Hood, and Chief Environmental Officer Lucas Joppa announced the company’s new goals and a detailed plan to become carbon negative. Brad Smith, Microsoft President, said: “While the world will need to reach net zero, those of us who can afford to move faster and go further should do so. That’s why today we are announcing an ambitious goal and a new plan to reduce and ultimately remove Microsoft’s carbon footprint.” News: http://www.climateaction.org/news/microsoft-announces-plans-to-be-carbon-negative-by-2030
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Really encouraging!
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They should atleast come up with ways of recycling some of the products to reduce the pollution even by a Percentage.
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My sergeant major concern is, from a certain point old hardware isn’t capable of functioning with new developments in software. No one is asking, yet my suggestion would be the option to watch your outdated hardware be destroyed for recyclable purposes only, as you get a new device equivalent or possibly better than what you had, for a major bargain deal with detailed support giving you good insight toward your future options. We all know materials are becoming scarce or not economically viable in many cases, so perhaps this is also part of the reason support just ends. There are many cases where a certain type of system doesn’t experience the necessity for updated security as much. Therefore there should be channels in play that mitigate for consensus on the issue. On the other hand, groups of cyber terrorism are gaining in the accumulation of data with developmental A.I. causing greater concerns in the near future. What safety is and should be in the cyber world should become more transparent and accessible to all, creating a parallel support base that is governmentally integrated and protected by humanitarian right. The only issue I have with that is: whom do you trust? The problem is we have allowed ourselves to become victims by embracing technology from the get go without truly contemplating the long term ramifications, just like numerous social media platforms constructed to ultimately turn the user into a product. All the negative findings are put to bed until more than a few people are dead, demanding a societal restructuring. The movement from warfare industrial diplomacy to the consumer market is a sickening one, still where would you be without your GPS? It’s either change the way we live or adapt to what’s going on. My faith in the matter has become more cynical during this past decade, which is odd actually seeing so many new developments also such as this one we’re all on. I’m for new thought-out traditions, leading a way to unification and making better decisions. Life shouldn’t be a prison, yet your screen has you all day sitting right in front of it, in it, isn’t it? The time for circumventing devision is now. If you don’t know, find out, if you can’t, just talk about, if you care, say so, if you feel it’s wrong, just say no. The only order there is, is the one you believe in. It is time for a new Matrix. You reading this: nothing stays the same, but if you’re willing to make the change, we’ll all be coming around again… sing with me.
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Try Ubuntu.