From Pledges to Progress: Technology’s Role on the Path to Net Zero

Microsoft’s Sustainability Media Briefing

NYC

September 19-25, 2022

During this Climate Week briefing, Microsoft vice chairman and president Brad Smith emphasized their three-pronged agenda: advancing the sustainability of its business, providing the digital technology needed to build a sustainable world and supporting the societal infrastructure needed for a sustainable world. During the briefing, Microsoft and partners, including Terra Praxis, outlined compelling examples of how Microsoft-enabled digital technologies could accelerate the low-carbon energy transition. The first centered on its collaboration with TerraPraxis on REPOWER across the globe.

Microsoft President and Vice Chairman Brad Smith championed REPOWER at Climate Week 2022. Climate Week was held in Ney York City from September 19-25, 2022.
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Terra Praxis Founding Partners and Co-CEOs, Kirsty Gogan and Eric Ingersoll, joined Brad Smith on the main stage for Microsoft’s Sustainability Briefing, where Smith announced how Microsoft’s collaboration with Terra Praxis is a key example of how Microsoft-enabled digital technologies could accelerate the low-carbon energy transition.
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On stage, Eric Ingersoll expressed the importance of this collaboration:

"If we don’t have a climate strategy that includes these people, we don’t have a climate strategy"

On September 2022, Microsoft and Terra Praxis signed a collaboration agreement to deliver a digital solution to support the repowering of over 2,400 coal-fired power plants to run on carbon-free energy.

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Eric Ingersoll & Kirsty Gogan, Founding Partners and Co-CEOs, Terra Praxis with Brad Smith, President and Vice Chairman, Microsoft

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