{"id":985741,"date":"2026-01-16T10:50:45","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T05:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=985741"},"modified":"2026-01-16T10:50:45","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T05:20:45","slug":"microsoft-signs-record-multi-million-dollar-deal-to-buy-soil-carbon-credit-in-push-to-reach-2030-green-goal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/16\/microsoft-signs-record-multi-million-dollar-deal-to-buy-soil-carbon-credit-in-push-to-reach-2030-green-goal\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft signs record multi-million dollar deal to buy soil carbon credit in push to reach 2030 green goal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has signed an agreement with Indigo Carbon to purchase a record 2.85 million soil carbon credits, which are associated with regenerative agriculture practices in the United States. The move comes at a time when the Satya Nadella-led company aims to become \u201ccarbon negative\u201d by 2030, despite its emissions surging due to the adoption of AI.<\/p>\n<p>The deal is expected to be valued between $171 million and $228 million, according to a report by Reuters, which quoted a person familiar with the deal saying that it falls within the historic range of $60 to $80 a ton for Indigo Carbon&#8217;s credits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has signed an agreement with Indigo Carbon to purchase a record 2.85 million soil carbon credits, which are associated with regenerative agriculture practices in the United States. The move comes at a time when the Satya Nadella-led company aims to become \u201ccarbon negative\u201d by 2030, despite its emissions surging due to the adoption of AI. The deal is expected to be valued between $171 million and $228 million, according to a report by Reuters, which quoted a person familiar with the deal saying that it falls within the historic range of $60 to $80 a ton for Indigo Carbon&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-985741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=985741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=985741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=985741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=985741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}