In January 2020, we unveiled our plans to become carbon negative by 2020. Fast forward 365 days. ⏩ How’s it growing? 🌲

Our first ever sustainability report has some good green news 💚 (1/6)
Reduce. ⬇️
Remove. 👋
Revive. 🌿

It’s simple: Carbon neutrality is not enough. With research and collaboration, we’ve removed 1.3M metric tons of carbon. That’s the weight of over 10,000 houses! 🏠 (2/6)
Water intensity reduction + water replenishment = water positivity 🤓

We’re trying to get ahead of the #water shortage by harnessing and sharing the power of #AI. (3/6)
Every year, the world collects 11 billion tons of waste. No, that wasn’t a typo. 😲

We’re working on eliminating single-use plastics, investing in #AI, reusing servers and network hardware through new Microsoft Circular Centers and more. (4/6)
We previously announced the Planetary Computer: a platform that provides access to the world’s critical environmental datasets. 

We have now on-boarded over 10 petabytes (10k terabytes!) of environmental science data. Learn how it works. ⬇️ (5/6)
There is still a lot of work to be done to protect our home but the future is looking green. 🌲

Together, we can save our planet! Get inspired and read the full report here:  https://msft.it/6004pQ28m  (6/6)
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