Overview Carbon Water Waste Ecosystems Appendix 66 Enabling systems change (continued) Scaling through new partnerships “ It΄s what we all do OS-Climate together that will In Q3, Microsoft joined Allianz, Amazon, and S&P Global as initial founding members of OS-Climate, a new make the difference.” initiative hosted by the Linux Foundation to help close the $1.2 trillion annual gap in investment urgently Dr. Lucas Joppa, Chief Environmental Officer needed for decarbonization and climate resilience. OS-Climate is a collaborative, member-driven, non-profit platform for developing open data and open source analytics to enable climate aligned investing, finance, and business by resolving the major barrier of costly, poor quality, highly fragmented data, and a lack of analytic tools. The initiative serves not only the finance community but also governments, companies, NGOs, and academia. Microsoft has already begun sharing its relevant sustainability data to advance modeling and understanding of climate change impact on businesses, as well as contributing new solutions accelerators focused on ESG reporting and risk management. One Planet Business for Biodiversity Microsoft joined One Planet Business for Biodiversity (OP2B), an international cross-sectorial, action-oriented business coalition on biodiversity with a specific focus on The Trillion Trees Initiative, unveiled at the WEF. agriculture, launched at the United Nations Climate Action Summit in 2019. The coalition is determined to The signatories are committing and acting to restore and We’re one of the founding organizations working with drive transformational systemic change and catalyze protect ecosystems, and through this call, advocate for C4IR Ocean on its Ocean Data Platform. This global, action to protect and restore cultivated and natural governments to work together and create a positive open-source platform gives data scientists, app biodiversity within the value chains, engage institutional policy feedback loop. developers, and marine spatial planners access to data and financial decision-makers, and develop C4IR Ocean coming from historic and real-time data sources to and promote policy recommendations for the In the third quarter of 2020, Microsoft joined the World develop solutions for a healthy and productive ocean. 2021 CBD COP15 framework. Economic Forum’s Center for the Fourth Industrial 1 Trillion Trees Business for Nature Call to Action Revolution Network for ocean innovation and Microsoft joined the 1t.org pledge in 2020 with Microsoft joined 560 other companies in September technology in Norway (C4IR Ocean). C4IR Ocean is commitments and policies that grow and conserve trees, as 2020 in signing the Business for Nature Call to Action, dedicated to using data, technology, and governance well as activities that support forests. Launched in January urging governments to adopt policies now to reverse frameworks to protect the world’s oceans and increase 2020, 1t.org is a 10-year effort to support the UN Decade on nature loss in this decade. the sustainability of ocean-based industries. Ecosystems Restoration from 2021 to 2030, which aims to conserve, restore, and grow one trillion trees by 2030.