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Microsoft wants to erase its carbon footprint - past and future

President of Microsoft Brad Smith speaks as the company announces plans to be carbon negative by 2030 and to negate all the direct carbon emissions ever made by the company by 2050 at their campus in Redmond, Washington, U.S., January 16, 2020. REUTERS/Lindsey Wasson - RC26HE9GO37F

Microsoft has pledged to remove as carbon as it has emitted in the past 45 years. Image: REUTERS/Lindsey Wasson

Stephen Nellis
Reporter, Reuters
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