

"If we look at this work through our moonshot analogy, this is not the rocket that will take us to the moon.

"Nearly all the carbon removal solutions we are purchasing are short-term and nature-based," Microsoft President Brad Smith said in a blog post Thursday. Though that might sound like progress, the software giant said its approach so far won't fix the broader problem of climate change. Microsoft cut carbon emissions 6% in its first year of trying to reverse the effect it's had on the global climate over the company's decades of existence.
