Microsoft's dirty supply chain is holding back its climate ambitions

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planted: 30/06/2023last tended: 02/07/2023
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https://www.theverge.com/23745933/microsoft-fossil-fuels-suppy-chain-emissions-climate

Microsoft. supply chains. carbon dioxide emissions.

96.71% of Microsoft's emissions are scope 3, i.e. lifecycle emissions from products.

Emissions from many of Microsoft's suppliers have in fact been going up. Mostly, they seem to say, as a result of increase in demand.

Seems like a reduction in demand (i.e. degrowth) would be a good way to go.

The problem of carbon emissions, counter to planetary stability, at all layers of the stack.

1. Elsewhere

1.1. In my garden

1.3. Mentions

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