Paris: Microsoft will be carbon negative by 2030, according to Glasgow. Since its founding in 1975, the US-based tech giant has emitted all of the carbon it has emitted either directly or through electrical consumption. By 2050, the company will have removed all of the carbon it has emitted from the environment.

In the final week of the pivotal climate negotiations aimed at keeping global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, as required by the 2015 Paris Agreement, the UN Climate Change will bestow the Global Climate Action Awards on Microsoft, among others, at the 26th Conference of Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP26) in this Scottish city. UN Climate Change is spearheading the UN Global Climate Action Awards to highlight the massive groundswell of activities taking place around the world that are moving the world toward a highly resilient, low-carbon future.

The awards honour creative and transformative solutions to climate change as well as broader economic, social, and environmental issues. Our international advisory panel selected 11 game-changing initiatives as winners of the awards in 2021, and they will be highlighted during a series of special events and an award ceremony during the second week of COP26. These projects, according to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, fall into three categories: Climate Neutral Now, Financing for Climate Friendly Investment, and Climate Leaders.

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