Driving Decarbonization With Digital Innovation with Microsoft's Vanessa Miler-Fels, Ep #19

Decarbonization is one of the primary goals many companies are trying to achieve in their operations. The reason is simple… science has shown that the world is facing an urgent carbon problem. If we don’t curb emissions and temperatures continue to climb, science tells us that the results will be incomprehensible.

Microsoft is leading the way in the realm of corporate leadership, setting its Carbon Negative Pledge as a standard to follow. One of the leading voices on the Microsoft team is Vanessa Miler-Fels, Director of Energy Innovation and Impact. Her astute insights and clear way of describing the “carbon math” the Microsoft team has done to empower their own efforts and extend their approach to their own supply chain partners come through loud and clear in this conversation. Listen to hear the generous and ambitious contributions Microsoft is poised to make to the world’s energy future.

You will want to hear this episode if you are interested in...

• Vanessa’s role at Microsoft as Director of Energy Innovation and Impact [2:51]
• Microsoft’s goals: “The World’s Next Moonshot” [3:49]
• Interim goals on the way to Carbon Negative [6:36]
• The important role Microsoft’s Scope 3 goals play in global decarbonization [14:24]
• How Microsoft plans to employ digital innovation on behalf of customers [17:20]
• Vanessa’s advice to those who need to take the first step in their organization [21:08]

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Resources & People Mentioned

• Microsoft’s carbon negative pledge statement

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Vanessa Miler-Fels is Director of Energy Innovation and Impact at Microsoft. She works with Microsoft’s Chief Environmental Officer on cross-company energy topics engaging with our operations, customers, and supply chain. Before that, for the last five years, Vanessa worked on the CO+I Energy and Sustainability team on renewable energy procurement for Microsoft Datacenters. Before joining Microsoft, she worked at a green-infrastructure private equity fund based in London and at the French Ministry of Finance. Vanessa is French and Indian, from Paris-Pondicherry, holds a Master in international affairs from Sciences-Po Paris, an MBA from ESCP, and is a graduate of the Ecole Nationale d'Administration.

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