Scoop: Microsoft Is Pausing Carbon Removal Purchases

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"Microsoft made 90% of all carbon removal purchases worldwide last year [2025]... and between 79-90% of all historic carbon removal purchases"

I.e. they suddenly realized they are the only ones holding up the scam, and are pulling out the rug.

I never called it a scam.

I think it's commendable for a huge corporation building lots of data centers to (partially) offset that impact. Amazon, Oracle and others aren't. It's unhealthy for a single company to be most of the market.

Can you point to a factual source for claiming it's a scam? If India and China aren't signatory to climate treaties, should there be no collective action?

Carbon credits are a scam. We quite simply don't have the technology to remove carbon from the atmosphere. The technology we do have is so incredibly inefficient and energy intensive that you end up burning more carbon generating the power to remove the carbon you're paid for.

If this were a feasible route, everyone would be pouring billions into the venture and they'd have more than one customer.

Carbon credits are and have always been pure grift and nothing more.

We do have that tech

It is called "trees"

i.e. they realized benefits to the environment out weigh the ability to make money

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