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Overview Carbon Water Waste Ecosystems Appendix 15 Our approach (continued) Our carbon Empowering customers We will help our suppliers, commitments and partners customers, and partners We will help our suppliers, customers, around the world reduce In January 2020, Microsoft and partners around the world reduce their carbon footprints CEO Satya Nadella, President their carbon footprints through our Brad Smith, and Chief learnings and with the power of data, through our learnings and AI, and digital technology. with the power of data, AI, Financial Officer Amy Hood announced a new ambitious and digital technology. goal and plan for Microsoft to be carbon negative by 2030. Nearly eliminating direct emissions Using our voice on carbon- We will reduce our Scope 1 and 2 related public policy issues emissions to near zero by the middle of the decade, through energy We will support new public policy efficiency work and reaching 100 initiatives to accelerate carbon percent renewable energy by 2025. reduction and removal opportunities. Becoming carbon negative Removing carbon By 2030, Microsoft will be carbon By 2030, Microsoft will remove more negative, and by 2050, we will remove carbon than it emits. By 2050, we΄ll from the atmosphere all the carbon remove all our historical emissions. dioxide our company has emitted either directly or by our electricity consumption Investing in the future since we were founded in 1975. We have created a $1 billion Climate Innovation Fund to accelerate the Reducing value chain global development of carbon emissions reduction and removal technologies, By 2030, we will reduce our Scope 3 as well as related climate solutions. emissions by more than half.

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