The Seattle-based company has three primary steps for its Carbon Negative plan. The first step involves reducing carbon emissions and working with its entire supply chain, which includes Scope 3 emissions, to reduce their overall carbon footprint from operations to use of products and all pathways to products.
The second step involves using Microsoft technology to assist both its customers and suppliers to reduce their own footprint along with a $1 billion fund to “accelerate the global development of carbon reduction, capture and removal technologies.”
The third and final step is to actually “remove from the environment all the carbon the company has emitted either directly or by electrical consumption since it was founded in 1975” by 2050.
Microsoft has already led the way in encouraging all of its businesses to reduce carbon reductions by offering internal pricing. The company can take this further now along its full supply chain. In addition to the company’s own powerful leadership in the area, Microsoft has also called for public policy changes to support efforts that reduce and remove carbon from the atmosphere.