Microsoft released a new white paper today to follow-up its “Making an impact with Microsoft’s carbon fee,” which the company published in March 2015. In this new paper, Microsoft shares insight into the evolution of its carbon program to accelerate global and local good.

Microsoft is a corporate leader on climate change. For example, the UNFCCC’s Momentum for Change initiative named Microsoft a 2015 Lighthouse Activity winner, in recognition of the role that Microsoft’s internal carbon pricing is already playing in meeting the climate challenge.

In this white paper, Microsoft explains how it is now looking at going beyond “carbon neutrality,” not least because it aligns with one of the Paris Agreement’s long-term aims: namely, to manage global emissions down so low that by the second half of the century, everyone is living in a climate-neutral, carbon-neutral world. The goal is to reach a point where all greenhouse gas emissions are safely absorbed by healthy forests, soils, and other natural or nature-based infrastructure.

Download the full white paper below.