BBCNEWS Business Briefing January 17, 2020
Could be a lot worse. We start with the Tech Industry and its impact on the environment. The vast amount of data we use and store is a major source of Carbon Emissions and a major consumer of energy. Microsoft is one of the worlds biggest providers of computing power, along with google and amazon, and on thursday it announced the industrys most aggressive plan yet to tackle the problem. By 2030, microsoft has pledged to become carbon negative, removing more carbon from the environment than it emits. And by 2050, it hopes to have wiped out its Carbon Footprint altogether, by removing all the ca...