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Shefy Manayil Kareem
General Manager, Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability
Shefy Manayil Kareem is the General Manager responsible for strategy, engineering, and execution of Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability. He also holds patents related to cloud-based systems and methods. Shefy has worked at Microsoft for 15 years and is a frequent speaker and author on topics related to sustainability, cloud, and digital transformation. He’s published several articles on how to leverage Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability to drive positive change.


Leverage AI to simplify CSRD reporting
Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability data solutions in Microsoft Fabric (preview) can help organizations take sustainability data in any format, organize, and normalize the data for sustainability regulatory reporting. This quantitative data reporting approach is complemented by a joint solution from Accenture and Avanade that leverages generative AI to provide qualitative insights.
Optimize sustainability data management across your value chain
In this blog, we show you how the ESG value chain solution in Microsoft Sustainability Manager enables you to gather data directly from your value chain partners, streamlining supplier engagement to gain a more comprehensive and accurate picture of those suppliers’ environmental impacts that contribute to your own company’s impacts.
Advance your carbon reduction strategy with intelligent forecasting and data analysis
With the emergence of generative AI, Microsoft Sustainability Manager continues to expand at a rapid pace, enabling an unprecedented level of interaction, analysis, and insight to help you make informed, data-driven decisions and drive change.
Use natural language and generative AI to create calculation models, streamline data collection, and improve reporting
As announced in our This is AI … for Sustainability event in February 2024, Copilot in Microsoft Sustainability Manager, now in preview, simplifies and accelerates complex processes to help you accomplish tasks more efficiently.
Achieving sustainable growth with Azure and FinOps best practices
With Azure Carbon Optimization, engineering and IT teams can use ready-to-consume insights and recommendations for optimizing their carbon emissions, all within the Azure portal. Microsoft Azure emissions insights enable data analysts and engineers to dive deeper into emissions data, allowing them to slice and dice the data and perform deeper analytics using Microsoft Fabric.
Drive sustainability transformation faster with new data and AI capabilities
Announcing new data solutions and generative AI advancements in Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability and Microsoft Fabric with Copilot in Microsoft Sustainability Manager and other AI-powered features.
New ways to improve your circularity data with Microsoft Sustainability Manager
Circularity is an important means of reducing waste and resource consumption by keeping materials, products, and services in use for as long as possible. To help organizations measure and report their circularity performance, Microsoft Sustainability Manager now includes circularity data ingestion.
Introducing Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability Community portal and new Sustainability Manager features
We’re excited to share that we’ve launched the Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability Community portal, a place to connect and lean on each other’s experience. Keep reading to learn more about the new portal as well as the latest new features in Microsoft Sustainability Manager to help you accelerate progress.
Maximize the value of your data with new Microsoft Sustainability Manager Intelligent insights
We’re excited to announce the availability of Microsoft Sustainability Manager Intelligent insights (preview), an AI-powered tool that empowers organizations to perform deeper analysis on their emissions data.
Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability: Run your carbon fee program with new capabilities
As organizations strive to achieve net zero carbon emissions, they need powerful tools and strategies to drive reductions faster. The new Carbon fee (preview) in Microsoft Sustainability Manager is one such capability.