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Microsoft carbon emissions from my company's Microsoft 365 cloud usage
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Total emissions per month (mtCO₂e) Emissions per Microsoft 365 region (mtCO₂e, past 12 months) Emissions per Scope (past 12 months, mtCO₂e)
Microsoft’s monthly emissions from your company’s Microsoft 365 cloud usage. You may see emissions from regions outside of your Microsoft 365 data location. Scope definitions are based on the Greenhouse Gas Protocol and are reported
Date mtCO₂e = Metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent Learn more about data residency here. from Microsoft’s perspective. View scope definitions in Calculation Methodology
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8 Region Emissions (mtCO₂e) % of total
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United States 42.929 49% Scope 1 0.447
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EMEA 10.513 12%
6 Japan 8.761 10%
Total Emissions (mtCO₂e)

India 6.133 7%

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Scope 2 1.341
Region France 5.257 6%

All  4 Brazil 4.381 5%

South Africa 3.504 4%

Scope 3 85.823
South Korea 2.628 3%
2 United Kingdom 1.752 2%

Asia Pacific 0.876 1%

Australia 0.876 1% 0 20 40 60 80
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Scope 1: Direct emissions such as combustion of fuels for backup power.
Scope 2: Indirect emissions from power consumption such as exhaust
2023 2024 from a power plant.
Scope 3: Indirect emissions from the supply chain, including manufacturing
Month and shipping of servers.

Key notes on our methodology

This is your allocation of Microsoft’s emissions Emissions are allocated to your tenant based on proxies for server resource usage This report uses market-based accounting

This data represents an estimate of the datacenter emissions Microsoft generates on your organization's behalf The emissions reported here are calculated in a two-step process: Microsoft purchases renewable energy to cover datacenter electricity consumption at the annual level. Scope 2
by providing Microsoft 365 services to your users. Figures include emissions associated with usage of Exchange 1) Microsoft 365 emissions are calculated for each Azure datacenter region; emissions reported here account for these purchases.
Online, SharePoint, OneDrive, Microsoft Teams, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook. 2) These emissions are allocated across customers based on proxies for server resource usage per region
including data storage and active usage of product features.

Learn more in Calculation Methodology page.