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Governments should be progressive about what is in their national interest, according to Satya Nadella

Satya Nadella, chief executive officer of Microsoft Corp., gestures as he speaks during a Bloomberg event on the opening day of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2020. Picture: SIMON DAWSON / BLOOMBERG

“Every country is rethinking what is in their national interest,” Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said in an interview at Davos on Tuesday. Governments should “maintain that modicum of enlightenment and not think about it very narrowly”.Nadella has previously voiced concern about the amendment of India’s citizenship law to stop undocumented Muslim migrants from neighbouring countries seeking citizenship in India while letting immigrants from other religions do so.

Microsoft recently unveiled plans to invest $1bn to back companies and organisations working on technologies to remove or reduce atmospheric carbon, saying efforts to merely emit less carbon were insufficient to avert catastrophic climate change.“We will now have to make sure all our data centre operations are first consuming renewable energy,” Nadella said.

Activists have been pushing for companies to stop working with the largest producers of greenhouse gases. BlackRock, the largest asset manager, has said it will cut exposure to thermal coal as it moves to address climate change.

 

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