Sustainability at Microsoft
Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability
Read e-books, white papers, customer stories, and case studies to help you understand key concepts about sustainability for your organization and discover solutions that help you meet your sustainability goals.
For a complete view of Sustainability at Microsoft, check out our Sustainability page.
E-books and white papers
| Title | Description |
|---|---|
| A Leader’s Guide to Sustainability | Learn how to help shape your organization’s sustainability journey. Build a strong digital foundation that enables you to track and manage your sustainability data. Use data-driven solutions that accelerate sustainability progress while increasing business growth and cost control. |
| The carbon benefits of cloud computing | Find out how you can reduce your carbon footprint by up to 98%, and lower energy consumption and costs, by migrating your applications, workloads, and databases to the cloud. |
| Connecting building data for a more sustainable future | Adopt Microsoft-enabled sustainability solutions to make impactful changes in your operations, your supply chain, and even in buildings—some of the biggest contributors of greenhouse gas emissions. |
| 2022 Environmental Sustainability Report | We’re sharing our latest progress, challenges, and learnings to accelerate global progress towards net zero. |
| 2022 Environmental Sustainability Report Data Fact Sheet | As part of Microsoft’s commitment to disclose information about our environmental footprint, this data fact sheet is a compilation of environmental metrics across greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, energy, water, waste and circularity, and land. |
| Taking care of our own environmental footprint | Our sustainability work starts with taking |
| accountability for our operational footprint. | |
| Sustainability reports hub | Climate change is the defining issue of our generation, and addressing it requires swift, collective action and technological innovation. We are committed to meeting our own goals while enabling others to do the same. That means taking responsibility for our operational footprint and accelerating progress through technology. |
| Microsoft Carbon Removal: Observations from our third year, June 2023 | We are very pleased to present this update to the lessons observed and learned through Microsoft’s efforts (alongside other companies) to establish a robust, worldwide carbon removal market. |
Customer stories and case studies
| Title | Description |
|---|---|
| FirstGroup accelerates business, reduces emissions with the centralized visibility and management of Azure Arc and Azure Monitor | Learn how to drive efficiencies with cloud-based insights. Public transport provider FirstGroup applies a cloud-first strategy to increase visibility into its digital resources, empowering decision-making for reducing its carbon footprint. |
| SSP unifies its hybrid infrastructure with Azure Stack HCI and saves more than 100,000 kilowatt hours | Reduce emissions by optimizing hybrid IT. Food and beverage service provider SSP unified its hybrid infrastructure with Azure Stack HCI, saving more than 100,000 kilowatt hours and cutting costs and emissions. |
| Thomas Concrete Group drives the cutting edge of sustainable concrete with Internet-of-Things solutions from Microsoft | Use insights to foster sustainable practices. With Azure IoT–based insights, Thomas Concrete Group can streamline decision-making, saving time and money, while facilitating customers’ adoption of less carbon-intensive materials. |
| Financial services | Insurance titan AIA embraces a cloud-based future to boost cost savings, sustainability while improving customer experience for millions. |
| Power and utilities | Equinor is using Azure to integrate siloed data from across the company to advance its energy business and sustainability. |
| Retail and consumer packaged goods | Tracer built a solution to connect manufacturers, stores, and consumers toward more efficient clearing of perishables, helping to save food waste. |
| Agriculture | See how Ingredion, a provider of plant-based ingredients, is using Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability to achieve its 2030 targets. |
| Automotive | Mobility services provider Parkl is scaling its impact with 10 times more device connections and 20 times more transactions. |
| Lead on progress to net zero | FLSmidth is using IoT and Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability to support its emissions and waste goals and become a sustainability leader in mining and cement. |
| Get ready for intelligent carbon capture and storage (CCS) | See how Brevik, Norway, is tracking and analyzing CSS—liquifying and moving CO2 from a cement factory to subsea reservoirs—using Microsoft data and AI technology. |
