Last week Steve Ballmer sent an e-mail to all Microsoft employees to communicate the company’s commitment to environmental sustainability. The mail outlined the company’s role in solving environmental challenges, its progress to date, and the opportunities ahead. The company also announced to its employees a goal to reduce its carbon emissions per unit of revenue at least 30% below 2007 levels by 2012 and provided actions for employees to help the company reduce its carbon footprint. Please see Microsoft’s Environmental website and Environmental Blog for more information about Microsoft’s commitment to the environment and its the carbon reduction goal.
There is a tremendous opportunity software to make a difference in addressing Climate Change challenge and it is great to see we are going to be increasing investment in this area. Here follows a summary of the vision. Exciting times ahead…..