Embracing Environmental Sustainability: The Case of Microsoft Corporation

Abstract

With the expansion of the scope of business responsibility of corporations to include the concept of ‘Environment, Social and Corporate Governance (ESG)’, there is a need for strong sustainable business strategies that causes minimal environmental damage. Microsoft Corporation having launched its first annual Environmentally Sustainability Report, ‘A Year of Action’, this is a case study of the corporation's business strategies that seek to take the growing environmental concerns into account. Their environmental impact reports covering aspects about sustainable actions and solutions, is a way towards mitigating climate change.