Overview Carbon Water Waste Ecosystems Appendix 23 Driving innovation (continued) Enabling customers and partners Providing growers with insights to lower GHGs across industries 40% Cloud Agronomics uses remote-sensing technology and Advancing the energy transition AI, leading a new wave of proactive analytics to lower BP and Microsoft have formed a strategic partnership In the US, buildings greenhouse gas emissions and spur sustainable food to further digital transformation in energy systems and account for 40 percent production. They scan crops and soils using advance the net zero carbon goals of each company. In of overall energy hyperspectral imaging, generating lab-grade analysis 2020, the companies signed an agreement to co-explore consumption. from the air. Then, within Azure, calibration and analysis co-innovation opportunities across several key areas of algorithms convert the data into insights. Through their decarbonization that are important for our journey as crop nutrient and soil carbon measurement products, well as for the world. We are currently focused on IoT, Cloud Agronomics is building one of the largest tagged AI, and cloud solutions that are intended to advance datasets for agriculture, removing verification as a key smart and clean cities, clean energy parks, and barrier to scale and boost soil-based carbon offset consumer energy. projects around the world. Enabling new energy efficiencies IoT and AI can improve Unlocking sustainable agriculture Supporting technology-backed geological carbon building efficiency. sequestration A robust partner ecosystem, relying on Azure, is Land O’Lakes, Inc. and Microsoft forged a new alliance In the last quarter of 2020, Microsoft signed a accelerating Microsoft’s impact on carbon reduction. in 2020, aimed at pioneering new innovations in memorandum of understanding (MOU) to explore ways ABB energizes the transformation of society and agriculture. The work is already underway to build a to support the Northern Lights carbon dioxide transport industry to achieve a more productive, sustainable connected Digital Ag platform on Azure that brings and storage project. It is a joint effort of the Norwegian future. The IoT cloud platform for ABB Ability solutions is Land O’Lakes΄ portfolio of digital tools into a government and energy firms Equinor, Shell, and Total based on Azure. Honeywell is using Azure in Honeywell standardized architecture. In addition, the teams have that chains together technologies developed for the Forge, its Enterprise Performance Management software been collaborating on the initial build of soil health energy industry across decades, using them in new that integrates with Microsoft Dynamics 365, enabling technologies that bring data from sensors and satellites ways to provide for the effective transportation, receipt, predictive maintenance applications to improve together with farmer behavior data to predict carbon and permanent storage of carbon in a reservoir in performance and energy efficiency across enterprise sequestration. These estimates, as well as information in Norway’s North Sea. As part of the MOU, Microsoft environments. Johnson Controls and Microsoft Truterra Insights Engine, can help reduce carbon for the and Northern Lights partners will explore opportunities expanded their partnership in December 2020 with a planet while turning a profit for farmers. to integrate digital expertise, supporting the work to new collaboration to digitally transform how buildings standardize and scale carbon capture across Europe and spaces are conceived, built, and managed to deliver and use the transport and storage facilities as part energy optimization among other benefits. Together with of Microsoft’s climate ambitions. Microsoft Azure, Schneider Electric’s EcoStruxure digital solutions empower all to make the most of our energy and resources, bridging progress and sustainability. You can learn more about these and other partner solutions at: Find out more here