Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability: Run your carbon payment program with new capabilities

As organizations attempt to attain net-zero carbon emissions, they want highly effective instruments and techniques to drive reductions quicker. The brand new Carbon payment (preview) in Microsoft Sustainability Supervisor is one such functionality, enabling organizations to set an inside value (or a “tax”) on their very own carbon emissions and encourage substantive reductions. 

Inner carbon pricing is broadly used—and notably on the rise—however extra fast adoption is required.¹ The fitting know-how answer could be vital for organizations overcoming setbacks associated to capturing carbon footprint knowledge, reliably allocating emissions to enterprise models, and planning and coordinating a carbon payment program. As a result of Microsoft Sustainability Supervisor permits groups to compute and allocate emissions, it’s additionally uniquely positioned to function a platform for implementing such a program.  

At Microsoft, we began our personal carbon payment in 2012 to speed up carbon discount and allocate funding to decarbonization initiatives. In 2021, we redesigned and elevated our carbon payment to speed up Scope 3 emissions discount, tying the payment to particular prices of abatement for various emissions sources. We’ll proceed to regulate the payment to help our operations whereas assembly our 2030 carbon commitments. 

As all the time, we’re excited to use our expertise to new capabilities in Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability. On this weblog, learn in regards to the Carbon payment and different new options enabling organizations to speed up progress. 

Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability

Speed up your sustainability journey

Observe the inner prices of carbon emissions throughout your operations 

Utilizing the brand new Carbon payment (preview) in Microsoft Sustainability Supervisor, organizations can visualize and perceive the prices of their emissions by scope and by facility, nation or area, or organizational unit. Set charges by scope or flat throughout scopes and overview the calculated prices within the Govt and Emissions Overview dashboards. Use the insights to advertise transparency round your inside prices of emissions and make extra exacting choices about reductions. You may also use the charges to fund different sustainability efforts, as Microsoft has. 

Within the instance under, Contoso, a fictitious firm, applies carbon charges to its enterprise models proportionally to the emissions attributed to every unit. The places of work of the Chief Monetary Officer and Chief Safety Officer work collectively to determine payment pricing for Scope 1, Scope 2, and Scope 3 emissions after which use the Govt Overview dashboard to find out prices owed by every group unit.  

Perceive the environmental footprint of your world financial actions  

Acquire insights in regards to the relationship between your group’s financial actions and emissions charges with EXIOBASE elements, now obtainable on your calculations in Microsoft Sustainability Supervisor. EXIOBASE is a globally obtainable, detailed supply-use desk and input-output desk that harmonizes supply-use tables from varied international locations, estimates emissions and useful resource extractions by trade, and hyperlinks this knowledge by commerce.

To entry EXIOBASE elements, go to the Microsoft Cloud Answer Heart and add your Microsoft Sustainability Supervisor deployment package deal. 

Be taught extra about emission elements. 

Don’t have Microsoft Sustainability Supervisor? Strive it free of charge. 

Observe your group’s waste footprint with enhanced visualization and reporting  

Two new capabilities enabled by the Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability waste knowledge mannequin (preview) enable your group to visualise, observe, and report on waste sustainability metrics: 

Disclose waste sustainability knowledge utilizing customary stories. Now you can report in your group’s waste amount and waste high quality knowledge to assist meet regulatory disclosure necessities and observe progress towards net-zero sustainability targets.  

Visualize waste amount and waste high quality knowledge within the Microsoft Sustainability Supervisor Insights dashboard. Entry up-to-date waste amount and high quality knowledge which are formatted and ready for sustainability use circumstances, equivalent to waste administration reporting and high quality compliance monitoring. 

By request: Velocity progress with enhanced person expertise and navigation 

All through each launch cycle, we dedicate time to addressing prospects’ usability suggestions about Microsoft Sustainability Supervisor. This suggestions is invaluable in serving to to information our choices as we optimize the answer, with the aim of bettering each person’s expertise. 

At this time we’re happy to introduce an intuitive facet pane filter in Calculation fashions and Calculation profiles. With an enhanced navigation expertise and the flexibility to simply filter your search by classes inside carbon, water, waste, and different influence areas, you possibly can extra rapidly generate the insights it is advisable drive progress. 

Do you may have questions or options about Microsoft Sustainability Supervisor? Go to our concepts record to present your suggestions. 

Coming quickly: Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability expanded availability and analytics  

We’re excited to supply Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability deployment in India datacenter areas, beginning in December 2023. Keep tuned for particulars and see the place the answer is obtainable at present.   

Coming in November 2023, a brand new Clever Insights (preview) characteristic will empower organizations to research and extract key data from their emissions knowledge by way of outlier, development, and correlation insights. Watch the Microsoft Business Blogs: Sustainability for updates. 

Be taught extra about Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability: Join information and updates and attempt it free of charge. 

¹ McKinsey, Prime Numbers: Inner carbon pricing is on the rise, however must rise larger, October 2023.