Microsoft, Nike, Unilever team up to combat global carbon emissions

NEW YORK: Microsoft, Nike, Starbucks, Unilever and five other industry titans from various sectors are teaming up to help businesses globally achieve zero carbon emissions.

Called Transform to Net Zero, the group plans to recruit other members and will work with the Environmental Defence Fund and focus on delivering guidance, research and blueprints for businesses to achieve zero carbon emissions no later than 2050.The announcement gave no details of any investment the companies would make, outlining only initial research and other work to be completed over the next five years.

The current alliance also includes French food group Danone , German automaker Mercedes-Benz, top shipping container firm AP Moller-Maersk, Indian tech firm Wipro and Brazilian cosmetics maker Natura.While many companies have made commitments to improve, critics say action by the corporate world still falls far short of the sort of far-reaching change needed to meet United Nations targets on emissions and capping the global rise at 1.5 degrees Celsius.

Microsoft in January had announced plans to be carbon negative, pledging to remove as much carbon as it has emitted in its 45-year history and allocated US$1 billion to create a Climate Innovation Fund to invest in developing carbon removal technology.

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