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Satya Nadella said that the technology is built, without the principles does more harm than good

Microsoft has committed to remove all carbon" from The Environment and emits it", since The Company was founded in 1975.

Chief executive Satya Nadella said he wanted to reach the target, up to the year 2050.

To do this, The Company aims to be "carbon negative" by 2030, the removal of more carbon from The Environment than it emits.

That goes beyond a promise due to its cloud-computing to go to rival Amazon, which intends to be "carbon neutral" by 2040.

"When It Comes to carbon, neutrality is not enough," said Microsoft President Brad Smith .

"has created The carbon dioxide in our atmosphere, a blanket of gas that traps heat and not changing The World -climate"

"If we rein-in emissions, and the temperatures continue to rise, the science tells us that the results will be catastrophic. "

The Company also announced the establishment of a $was to develop the 1 billion (£765m) of the climate innovation Fund, the carbon abatement technology.

Carbon neutral v-carbon-negative

If a company says it is carbon neutral, there is effectively no carbon to add to the atmosphere.

you can do this by:

Until Now , the majority of companies reach on the compensation of the emissions to neutrality.

often It Comes to the financing of projects in developing countries to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, for example, in the construction of water power stations, to stop the encouragement of families, with wood stoves and the support of businesses, use of Solar Power . These cuts are then deducted from the most important companies of their own performance.

The result of this slows down the carbon dioxide emissions, rather than the reversal of it.

To be carbon negative, must remove a company, in fact, it emits more carbon from the atmosphere than.

Microsoft says it will do this by a series of carbon-capture-and-storage technologies.

The Announcement has been largely welcomed by environmentalists, who said it showed Microsoft was thinking about the big climate-change picture, and not just their own role.

"is It a hat-trick of sustainability leadership," said Elizabeth stubbornly hide from the environmental defense Fund.

"But to really make the needle move on the Climate Change , we must follow the 1,000 other [companies] to-suit and turn rhetoric into action. "

But Greenpeace warned that Microsoft still necessary to their ongoing relationship with oil and gas companies.

"While there is a lot to celebrate in Microsoft's announcement, a gaping hole remains untouched: Microsoft expands to help the efforts, fossil fuel companies of drilling of oil-and gas-using machine learning and other AI technologies," said senior campaigner Elizabeth Jardim.

Microsoft's plan is even more aggressive than that of the other tech companies, including Facebook, Google, Apple and Amazon, which are not "carbon negative" obligations.

How Microsoft will achieve its goal?

Microsoft has suggested a number of ways, it could remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, including:

- Tech companies, " industrial and data centers, large amounts of carbon dioxide.

the sector account for up to 3. 6% of global greenhouse gas emissions this year, More Than double The Level in 2007. And it was predicted that in a worst-case scenario, this could grow to 14% by 2040.

Microsoft has said it plans to halve the emissions created directly by themselves and the stakeholders in your supply chain by 2030.

A possibility, The Company intends to do this is by increasing the carbon fees it charges its internal business groups.

Since 2012, Microsoft has forced departments to budgets, which are taken into account the cost of emissions created by electricity, business travel and other activities.

Now, the fee indirect emissions, such as those of customers with electricity will flow to the areas of the business " products.

And to avoid as Microsoft, to produce CO2 in total, they invest in technologies to capture and storage of gas, reduce the amount in the atmosphere.

Mr Smith said, that would mean tech ", which are not fully present today".

The Company added that its data centers and other facilities would use a 100% Renewable Energy by 2025.

to compare, such As Microsoft ' s plans to rivals?

Software maker Intuit has also promised to be carbon negative by 2030.

The Californian company said it was reducing emissions to 50 times More Than for 2018 "carbon footprint".

Amazon's Jeff Bezos announced in September 2019, that his company would be carbon-neutral by 2040.

to purchase His pledge included plans for 100,000 electric vehicles for the online retailers, the delivery of the fleet.

Google has a set of digital tools to keep track of cities and to reduce emissions. The Search giant also offsets its own emissions through investments in green projects.

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Source of news: bbc.com