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Microsoft's New Carbon Plan Neutral by 2030 Negative by 2050

posted by martyb on Saturday January 18 2020, @03:00PM   Printer-friendly

dx3bydt3 writes:

Microsoft Corp said on Thursday it aims to:

By 2030 Microsoft will be carbon negative, and by 2050 Microsoft will remove from the environment all the carbon the company has emitted either directly or by electrical consumption since it was founded in 1975.

Further coverage: from The Verge, BBC, CBC
"direct emissions" but those they may have caused. If they can achieve it though, it will be a positive step.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 19 2020, @08:17AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 19 2020, @08:17AM (#945224)

    How many millions of iPhone 5 and below devices will be thrown out due to Apple's decision to cut support?

    How much waste is it to build devices that will be thrown out in a matter of years when they could be designed to last at least a decade?

  • (Score: 2) by Bot on Sunday January 19 2020, @08:22PM

    by Bot (3902) on Sunday January 19 2020, @08:22PM (#945453) Journal

    Apple is in the same boat. The days of the openfirmware macs are gone.

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