Overview Carbon Water Waste Ecosystems Appendix 60 Protecting ecosystems Taking Changing land use and land cover Our commitment “ We must work together is the most significant driver of In 2020, we committed to permanently protect to determine how we and restore more land than we use company-wide maximize the benefits that responsibility terrestrial biodiversity loss by 2025, using approaches like land acquisition, Previously, we have worked to address our land use conservation easement, national park creation, and nature provides to people impacts on a site-by-site basis in our campus and community or indigenous-led conservation. While for our land datacenter work. This is perhaps most visible in our we do not have a particularly large footprint, while minimizing the Silicon Valley campus rebuild, where, to help restore Microsoft does directly operate on approximately environmental harm of Stevens Creek, we’ve planted nearly 600 trees, 11,000 acres of land globally—that’s equal to about footprint installed a three acre green roof, and created a three-quarters the size of Manhattan in New York our activities. It won’t be landscape that mimics pre-development biodiversity. City. We’ll protect and restore land in partnership easy, but it is possible if with The Nature Conservancy (TNC) globally and To meet our commitment of the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) we put the pieces together.” protecting more land than we in the United States. We will use science and data to prioritize protecting Brad Smith, President use by 2025, we are partnering ecosystems most at risk, using TNC’s newly launched with global organizations that last chance ecosystem framework and the NFWF’s can guide our data and science- national landscape conservation framework. driven approach to prioritizing the protection of ecosystems most at risk. 11,000 Prioritizing the protection of ecosystems, guided by data and science. Microsoft operates on 11,000 acres of land globally.