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Official Microsoft Blog
- April 2, 2024
- 1 min read
Sustainable by design: Advancing the sustainability of AI

The pace of AI adoption has accelerated significantly, ushering in groundbreaking advances, discoveries, and solutions with the potential to help address humanity’s biggest problems.
Microsoft Cloud Blog
- March 26, 2024
- 5 min read
How BeeOdiversity leverages 12 million bees and AI to create a more sustainable future

As AI becomes more mainstream around the world, innovation is blossoming to new levels.
Microsoft Industry Blogs
- January 30, 2024
- 5 min read
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.
Discover our commitment to sustainability

Find out how Microsoft is committed to advancing sustainability and meeting our goals while helping others do the same.

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Microsoft Industry Blogs
- December 18, 2023
- 5 min read
Microsoft as sustainability customer zero: Managing Scope 3 emissions

In this second part of our customer zero blog series, we share how we’ve used technology to advance our Scope 3 progress and how we’ve engaged with our suppliers to drive their own accountability and progress.
Microsoft Industry Blogs
- November 27, 2023
- 6 min read
Microsoft as sustainability customer zero: Using data to drive progress

This blog is the first in a series documenting our experience as “customer zero” of our own sustainability technology—from how we got started to how we’re now using Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability solutions to record and manage our progress and enable our customers to do the same.
Microsoft Industry Blogs
- May 9, 2023
- 4 min read
Industry Conversations podcast by Microsoft: 5 episodes showcasing our industry impact

Our new podcast series, Industry Conversations by Microsoft, features subject matter experts from both Microsoft and organizations that have made use of the benefits of the cloud for their industry.
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Learn new skills and get step-by-step guidance with learning paths and modules about how to drive business value while accelerating sustainability.

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Microsoft On the Issues
- March 22, 2023
- 1 min read
The journey to water positive

This week, leaders from around the world are attending the first water-focused event hosted by the United Nations in 46 years.
Microsoft Industry Blogs
- March 21, 2023
- 4 min read
Get ready for ESG reporting with increased data transparency

As we examine how new rules impact the scope of our reporting, we’re helping our customers do the same, because our own experience has shown us that collecting and analyzing data at scale—that is, across entire operations and value chains—requires increasingly automated, data-driven digital technologies.
Microsoft Industry Blogs
- February 28, 2023
- 5 min read
Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability: Catalyzing progress with our global partners

Learn about Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability partner solutions that are helping organizations drive transformative decision-making, innovation, and better business outcomes.
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Learn new skills and get step-by-step guidance with learning paths and modules about how to drive business value while accelerating sustainability.

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Microsoft Industry Blogs
- February 23, 2023
- 4 min read
GreenBiz 23: 3 reasons to be optimistic about sustainability progress

Sustainability decision-makers came together to find new approaches and solutions to topics including net zero, circular economy, social justice, biodiversity, and resilient supply chains.