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Assess your ESG data readiness

Take the Microsoft Sustainability ESG Data Readiness Assessment and get personalized guidance on how to drive progress and add business value through your ESG data.

Why prioritize cloud migration?

Reduce your carbon footprint by up to 98%, and lower energy consumption and costs, by migrating your applications, workloads, and databases to the cloud.1

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.

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.

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.

Establish best practices

Microsoft is committed to becoming carbon negative, water positive, and zero waste. Find out how we’re tackling ambitious goals—and how our practices could apply to your business.

Start focusing on carbon math

Each year, humanity emits 50B tons more greenhouse gas than the planet can absorb. Learn how to track and minimize carbon emissions across scopes.

Become water positive

Learn from Microsoft plans to reduce our water use and replenish more than we consume by 2030.

Reduce global waste with Circular Centers

Humans produce about 55B tons of waste annually, most of which is not properly disposed of. Discover how we plan to reach our zero waste goals.

Monitor and analyze the planet’s health

Find out how our Planetary Computer enables targeted environmental decision-making.

Build on technologies that are sustainable by design

Keep driving operational and cost efficiencies with products and services that are built, operated, and retired with low impact in mind.

Realize energy and carbon savings with the Microsoft Cloud

Take advantage of our efficient operational practices, IT equipment, datacenter infrastructure—and built-in renewable energy investments.

Measure, monitor, and manage data to achieve efficiencies

Get more from your sustainability data with secure, globally scalable Azure IoT solutions from Microsoft and our solution providers.

Streamline operations with connected business systems

Drive system integration and enhanced collaboration to optimize your value chain and create more sustainable outcomes.

Reduce emissions with hybrid work

Enable employees to work more flexibly to reduce travel, including daily commutes.

Evaluate your device portfolio

Equip your workplace with Microsoft devices that support environmental initiatives, including our plan to achieve zero waste for our direct operations, products, and packaging by 2030.
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Find an experienced solution provider

Explore off-the-shelf and custom Microsoft technology–based sustainability solutions that are designed to help you drive value while achieving your goals.

Swedavia Airports used the Azure Migration and Modernization Program to achieve a more agile, cost-efficient platform for sustainable growth—and 40 percent savings per server.

Aster Group turned to Azure to help reduce costs, simplify infrastructure, and free up real estate to serve a vision of ensuring that everyone has a home.

See how EY works with businesses to understand and respond to environmental risks and opportunities.

The nonprofit International Organization for Migration decided to move to Azure to lower costs and improve security in support of its humanitarian mission.

Your sustainability journey

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[1] The results show that the Microsoft cloud is between 22 and 93 percent more energy efficient than traditional enterprise datacenters, depending on the specific comparison being made. When taking into account our renewable energy purchases, the Microsoft cloud is between 72 and 98 percent more carbon efficient. These savings are attributable to four key features of the Microsoft cloud: IT operational efficiency, IT equipment efficiency, datacenter infrastructure efficiency, and renewable electricity procurement. Get details: Download The carbon benefits of cloud computing.

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