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Microsoft has published its annual sustainability report for 2021 [PDF], claiming to have reduced its own CO2 emissions by about 17 percent year-on-year, but with a bigger carbon footprint overall than it had last year, showing that “progress won’t always be linear”.  In 2021, Microsoft generated 14.072 million metric tons of CO2e, by its own estimation. That’s up from 11.58 million metric tons of CO2e the year before – an overall 21.4 percent increase.  Announcing the report, Microsoft president and vice chair Brad Smith said that the past year had provided the company with critical experience for its stated goal of becoming carbon negative by 2030.