{"id":3827,"date":"2021-11-27T14:38:01","date_gmt":"2021-11-27T13:38:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/11\/27\/its-critical-can-microsoft-make-good-on-its-climate-ambitions\/"},"modified":"2021-11-27T14:38:01","modified_gmt":"2021-11-27T13:38:01","slug":"its-critical-can-microsoft-make-good-on-its-climate-ambitions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/11\/27\/its-critical-can-microsoft-make-good-on-its-climate-ambitions\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It\u2019s critical\u2019: can Microsoft make good on its climate ambitions?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The company has set an example in the fight against carbon \u2013 but it retains ties to obstructionist groups<\/p>\n

When the UN\u2019s landmark climate report was released in 2018, calling for urgent and unprecedented<\/a> changes, Microsoft executives were told to \u201ccommit it to memory\u201d, said Elizabeth Willmott, who leads the company\u2019s carbon program. \u201cAnd so we did.\u201d<\/p>\n

The report warned<\/a> the world must reach net-zero emissions by 2050 in order to avert catastrophic climate change. To achieve this, not only must the emissions released by countries and companies be dramatically curtailed, but billions of tons of carbon dioxide must be sucked out of the atmosphere.<\/p>\n

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\nThe company has set an example in the fight against carbon \u2013 but it retains ties to obstructionist groups
\nWhen the UN\u2019s landmark climate report was released in 2018, calling for urgent and unprecedented changes, Microsoft executives were told to \u201ccommit it to memory\u201d, said Elizabeth Willmott, who leads the company\u2019s carbon program. \u201cAnd so we did.\u201d
\nThe report warned the world must reach net-zero emissions by 2050 in order to avert catastrophic climate change. To achieve this, not only must the emissions released by countries and companies be dramatically curtailed, but billions of tons of carbon dioxide must be sucked out of the atmosphere. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The company has set an example in the fight against carbon \u2013 but it retains ties to obstructionist groups When the UN\u2019s landmark climate report was released in 2018, calling for urgent and unprecedented changes, Microsoft executives were told to \u201ccommit it to memory\u201d, said Elizabeth Willmott, who leads the company\u2019s carbon program. \u201cAnd so …<\/p>\n

\u2018It\u2019s critical\u2019: can Microsoft make good on its climate ambitions?<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3828,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3827"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}