Microsoft Discourages Corporate Travel by Raising Own Carbon Fee 600 Percent

Traveling for business is about to become a much more costly affair for employees at Microsoft — but it’s nothing to do with hotel rates or air fares. It’s because the internal penalty the technology giant charges itself, based on the carbon emissions that its travel generates, is set to increase by 567 percent later this year. Microsoft is taking what it calls “aggressive measures” to cut down the amount of Scope 3 emissions it produces, with business travel falling under this category. It currently charges a business travel fee of $15 per metric ton of carbo