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Microsoft Is On Pace to Buy More Clean Jet Fuel Than Most Airlines

The tech giant is purchasing sustainable fuel credits to jumpstart production and fulfill its carbon-negative pledge

A Microsoft corporate pavilion.

Photographer: Krisztian Bocsi/Bloomberg
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Some of the world’s biggest corporate consumers of air travel are investing in cleaner jet fuel, using a new credit system aimed at allowing the companies to claim the environmental benefits.

Microsoft Corp. has made one of the largest commitments. The tech giant has long pledged to become carbon negative by the end of this decade, meaning it plans to remove more climate pollution from the atmosphere than it emits.