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Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability Tech Summit November 2024.

Free training courses from Microsoft contain detailed concepts and walkthroughs to help start you on your journey with Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability. You can select a learning path that walks you through several modules, or you can select individual modules.

If your company has a subscription with LinkedIn Learning, you can access additional training there.

Learning paths

Learn path Description
Get started with Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability Gain a foundational understanding of Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability and its core components. Learn about the key concepts of sustainability, Microsoft's sustainability journey and the solution focus areas for Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability.
Get started with Microsoft Sustainability Manager Obtain a foundational understanding of the Microsoft Sustainability Manager. This learning path also describes the concepts, semantic model and process flow, and how the semantic model relates to the functional area.
Get started with Sustainability data solutions in Microsoft Fabric Gain a foundational understanding of Sustainability data solutions in Microsoft Fabric and its core components. Learn about the key environmental, social, and governance (ESG) challenges, and how sustainability data solutions in Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability help resolve them.
Set up a sustainability solution using Microsoft Sustainability Manager Go through hands-on exercises to set up a sustainability solution using Microsoft Sustainability Manager. Create your training environment, set up organization and reference data, ingest data, design calculations, build reports and review insights, and define carbon reduction goals and scorecards.
Extend Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability Gain an understanding of Sustainability Manager and the extensibility features. Go through hands-on exercises as you extend and access data in the sustainability applications deployed through Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability using Dynamics 365, Power Platform, Microsoft 365, and Azure in your own environment. Dive into using Microsoft Power Platform to create no-code extensions within Sustainability Manager, customize dashboards, tables, and data. Gain insights on different options to access and query sustainability data.
Get started with Emissions Impact Dashboards Go through hands-on exercises to install the Emissions Impact dashboards from the Microsoft Cloud Solution Center. Explore the dashboards to measure carbon emissions of an organization's use of Microsoft Cloud services.
Set up a water and waste sustainability solution using Microsoft Sustainability Manager Set up a water and waste sustainability solutions using Microsoft Sustainability Manager.

Modules

Learn path Description
Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability overview Discover key sustainability concepts. Learn about Microsoft's sustainability journey. Explore the core capabilities of Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability.
Set up your training environment Discuss Microsoft Solution Center. Set up a new Microsoft 365 E3 trial tenant. Set up a new Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability trial instance.
Microsoft Sustainability Manager concepts Discover the solution focus areas for Microsoft Sustainability Manager. Learn how Sustainability Manager centralizes disparate data in a common data format and enables organizations to record, report, and reduce their emissions and water or waste impact more efficiently.
Microsoft Sustainability Manager Solution Architecture Learn about the Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability data model on which the application is built. Review the data types, process and data flow, and how the data model relates to the functional area. Extend the core capabilities of Microsoft Sustainability Manager. Learn about the extensibility options and recommended practices for Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability.
Set up organization and reference data Set up the organization and reference data in Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability.
Ingest ESG value chain data Set up value chain partners. Create surveys to collect emissions and product carbon footprint (PCF) data that's essential for reporting, setting targets, and achieving reductions.
Ingest emissions activity data Use Microsoft Sustainability Manager connectors to ingest data. Use Power Query to transform the data before ingestion. Review the ingested data in the Purchase Electricity Activity Data table in Dataverse.
Sustainability data solutions overview Learn about key environmental, social, and governance (ESG) challenges. Discover Sustainability data solutions in Microsoft Fabric capabilities and how it resolves the challenges. Learn about the architecture and core components of sustainability data solutions.
Design emission calculations Perform emission calculations and review the emission calculations output. Create a new custom factor library, new calculation models, and new calculation profiles.
Build reports and review insights Generate emissions reports and activity reports and review Power BI dashboards.
Define carbon reduction goals and scorecards Set carbon emission reduction goals based on your organization's sustainability priorities and track them by using scorecards.
Access Microsoft Sustainability Manager data Access sustainability data through Microsoft Dataverse API. Build a Microsoft Azure Data Factory pipeline to copy sustainability data. Query sustainability data by using the Azure Synapse Link for Dataverse.
Extend Sustainability Manager for building complex Scope 3 calculations Learn about the common challenges that organizations face in calculating and reporting Scope 3 emissions. Review the methodologies and procedures for calculating Scope 3 emissions. Use Sustainability Manager to calculate Scope 3 Category 1, Category 2, and Category 4 calculations based on a set of fictional use cases and scenarios.
Extend core capabilities of Microsoft Sustainability Manager Use Microsoft Power Platform to create no-code extensions within Sustainability Manager. Add customized dashboards to Sustainability Manager. Create alerts to notify critical team members about task status. Add a column to a table in the Sustainability data model. Display data on a form in Sustainability Manager.
Work with Emissions Impact dashboards Learn about Emissions Impact dashboards for Azure and Microsoft 365. Install Emissions Impact dashboards from the Microsoft Cloud Solution Center. Explore Emissions Impact dashboards to measure carbon emissions of an organization's use of Microsoft Cloud services. Connect Microsoft Sustainability Manager with the Emissions Impact Dashboard for Azure.
Set up a waste sustainability solution by using Microsoft Sustainability Manager Set up a waste sustainability solution by using Microsoft Sustainability Manager. Ingest waste quantity data, build reports, and review insights.
Set up a water sustainability solution by using Microsoft Sustainability Manager Set up a water sustainability solution by using Microsoft Sustainability Manager. Ingest water sample and quality data, build reports, and review insights.
Water and waste sustainability overview Learn about water and waste sustainability, key scenarios for water and waste management, and the water and waste data models. Use Microsoft Sustainability Manager for the waste and water sustainability journey.

LinkedIn Learning courses

To learn more about sustainability and Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability, check out the following courses on LinkedIn Learning.

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