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Microsoft pledges to remove more carbon than it produces by 2030

While the software giant expects to be ‘carbon-negative’ by the end of the decade, it will continue to sell technology to help fossil fuel companies find and extract deposits

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January 16, 2020 at 2:11 p.m. EST
Microsoft also plans to remove all the carbon emissions it has generated since its founding in 1975 by 2050. (Ted S. Warren/AP)

REDMOND, Wash. — Microsoft on Thursday announced plans to remove more carbon than it emits by the end of the decade, a pledge that addresses the climate-change crisis more aggressively than many of its tech rivals.

The software giant, which announced the initiative at an event at its headquarters, also plans to remove all the carbon emissions it has generated since its founding in 1975 by 2050.