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Overview Carbon Water Waste Ecosystems Appendix 29 Key learnings What we’ve How to get started on carbon learned in your organization Sustainability. Good for Business. Executive Playbook: part how-to We need clearer standards, better guide, part inspiration accounting, and new ways to from real case studies, contract to get to net zero—which Building Blocks the playbook offers all for Net Zero companies, particularly will require partnerships across Transformation: those in Western many carbon market stakeholders. a how-to guide to Europe, a way to begin establishing a net zero or accelerate their work strategy, including on sustainability. Concentration matters. Our current atmospheric We need to raise the bar on standards. In our clarity on terminology Find out 1 concentration of greenhouse gas emissions is 3January 2020 event and accompanying blog post, and carbon offset more here catastrophically high to keep the climate stable, we focused on the need to get real on carbon engagements. Explainer Video – and far too dilute to make carbon easily math. The methodologies for carbon accounting Find out Carbon Math: get removable from the atmosphere. The world are ambiguous and discretionary, which won’t more here smarter on the must build a carbon removal market on an hold us collectively accountable on a path to challenge of carbon, unprecedented scale and timeline, from nearly 1.5°C. We need clearer protocols to ensure that Microsoft’s and why we need to be scratch. This work will be incredibly hard, progress reported on the balance sheet is truly Sustainability Guide: a real about carbon math. requiring integrity, public-private coordination, progress in the real world. Meanwhile, the short guide and longer and heavy investment simultaneously. accounting of carbon removal is far from playbook offer Find out straightforward. These much-needed market companies guidance more here Contracts are the building blocks of the new improvements will require partnership among on how to get started Carbon Negative by carbon economy. Our bold carbon negative goal many carbon market stakeholders. in a technology-led 2030: check out the 2was splashy—but the real work is in contracting, sustainable announcement of our whether to decarbonize our supply chain or to transformation. strategy, featuring CEO fund net new carbon removal. Contracts today Find out Satya Nadella, CFO do not include a price on carbon, or the cost of more here Amy Hood, and getting and keeping carbon out of the President Brad Smith. atmosphere—and they must. Passive purchasing Find out is not sufficient; we must also invest in market- more here making activities to boost supply of technologies for carbon reduction and removal alike.

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