Microsoft Corp. said Thursday it would become "carbon negative" by 2030 as part of an ambitious strategy to erase the tech giant's greenhouse gas emissions.

The Redmond, Wash.-based company said it would increase its internal carbon price and extend it to suppliers to achieve the goal, which would mean it was removing more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere than its business was emitting. And it set a long-term goal of negating all the emissions from its direct sources and power consumption since its 1975 founding by 2050.


The announcement comes as politicians, countries and companies have increasingly rallied around a 2018 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report that suggested the world must neutralize carbon emissions by mid-century to avoid locking in catastrophic effects of climate change. Earlier this week, BlackRock, the world's largest asset manager, said it would put climate change at the center of its investing strategy.