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Melanie Nakagawa

@melnakagawa

Chief Sustainability Officer @Microsoft, fmr @WHNSC and Special Asst to @POTUS, climate tech investor, diplomat and advocate for our 🌎.

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Curious about the role of data & AI in addressing sustainability and how it can empower you? Join the digital event on Feb. 13, 8 AM PST, 'This is AI … for Sustainability.' Register here:
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Transparency is an important tool in both making progress on sustainability and building trust. Microsoft we focus on engagement as an essential part of achieving progress and regularly evaluate our trade memberships. Learn more here: query.prod.cms.rt.microsoft.com/cms/api/am/bin…

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Thank you We Mean Business Coalition and CEO María Mendiluce for bringing us together to start of this year using our voice for real change and impact. Feels good to be supporting one another and I’m hopeful it’s a sign of more progress to come.

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Wrapping up some of our biggest engagements at , Melanie Nakagawa joined Matt Damon and Water.org's Genevieve Edens to discuss water equity, Natasha Crampton talked all things , and important conversations were had around cyberwarfare. Read the latest: linkedin.com/pulse/microsof…

Wrapping up some of our biggest engagements at #UNGA78, @melnakagawa joined Matt Damon and @Water's Genevieve Edens to discuss water equity, Natasha Crampton talked all things #AI, and important conversations were had around cyberwarfare. Read the latest: linkedin.com/pulse/microsof…
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Thank you United Nations Foundation and The Brookings Institution for inviting me to speak on how Microsoft is enabling accelerated progress to reaching the to kick off Climate Week. It was great to kick off this exciting week hearing from this inspiring delegation of Hawaiian youth!

Thank you @unfoundation and @BrookingsInst for inviting me to speak on how @Microsoft is enabling accelerated progress to reaching the #SDGs to kick off Climate Week. It was great to kick off this exciting week hearing from this inspiring delegation of Hawaiian youth!
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'Let’s all celebrate this progress, but we also look forward to the day when women’s leadership doesn’t need a special callout because it’s fully normalized,' write Melanie Nakagawa and Kate Brandt. trib.al/AY7klhB

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Turning air into fuel sounds like science fiction, but this kind of tech is here today! Congrats Twelve on breaking ground on this first-of-its-kind Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) production facility making SAF from CO2. seattletimes.com/business/boein…

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To meet the challenges of the climate crisis, we need to create markets that incentivize scalable solutions. That’s why Microsoft is proud to be a founding investor in Just Climate, a new $1.5B fund that will support impactful solutions to decarbonize hard-to-abate industries.

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Good News Alert: Climate-led investing going mainstream attracting institutional capital! Just Climate will help direct & scale capital toward innovations that help to decarbonize hard-to-abate industries (e.g. steel, concrete, and more) that are key to a net-zero economy.

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We're announcing more than 50 updates for developers at , from bringing Bing to ChatGPT, to Windows Copilot, to a new Copilot Stack with common extensibility, Azure AI Studio, and Microsoft Fabric, a new data analytics platform. aka.ms/AAkv1b8

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AI may be the most consequential technology advance of our lifetime. Today we announced a 5-point blueprint for Governing AI. It addresses current and emerging issues, brings the public and private sector together, and ensures this tool serves all society. blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/…

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Congratulations to the 2023 winners! Team TAWI is using real-time speech recognition to empower children with Auditory Processing Disorder (APD) to overcome communication barriers. techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/student-dev…

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Carbon removal is key to attaining . Ørsted’s technology will help Microsoft remove 2.7M tons of carbon from the atmosphere over 11 years, helping us get closer to our actual goal - to be carbon negative by 2030.

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From training models to detect diseases to using cognitive APIs to help people with disabilities, it’s inspiring how this year’s teams are using AI to tackle global challenges. Mark your calendar for the Imagine Cup World Championship competition on May 23!

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We're in the middle of the race to , but like with all races, we need to keep an eye on our pace.

Our Chief Sustainability Officer Melanie Nakagawa explains how we're working to remove the biggest roadblocks standing in the way of net zero.

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Achieving a future is a challenge bigger than any one company. At Microsoft we are taking a first-mover approach, making long-term investments to bring more carbon-free energy onto the grids where we operate with @Helion & Constellation.

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Today, ⁦Microsoft⁩ launched the 2022 Environmental Sustainability Report. 2022 was a year of innovation, partnership, and progress against our commitments, all while helping our customers and the world move towards a more sustainable future. blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/…

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Drumroll please… 🥁 Please give a warm welcome to our 2023 World Championship judges! 🤩

Meet Wayne Sutton, Melanie Nakagawa, and Talib Visram — three impactful industry experts who will select this year's World Champion at : msft.it/6005gT8hS.

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Congrats to the Energy Impact Partners Elevate team for reaching this important milestone in mobilizing capital to support a just and equitable energy transition - we are proud to be part of your journey that's just launching! 🚀

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