Plan and prepare for Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability in 2025 release wave 1

Overview

Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability empowers organizations to accelerate sustainability progress by bringing together a growing set of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) capabilities from Microsoft Azure, Microsoft 365, Microsoft Dynamics 365, and solutions from a global ecosystem of partners.

We continue to expand the capabilities of Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability to meet evolving customers' needs. Looking ahead, we plan to expand the following areas:

• Calculate insurance emissions in Microsoft Sustainability Manager
• Import energy data to accurately define energy profiles in Sustainability Manager
• Connect and view ESG analytics from other sources in Sustainability data solutions in Microsoft Fabric

You can explore the international availability of Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability through the Industry Cloud availability report.

 Updates to Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability 2025 release wave 1

For official product documentation and training for Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability, go to:

• Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability docs
• Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability training on Microsoft Learn

Updates to Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability 2024 release wave 2

Investment areas

Analyze ESG performance against goals
We’re helping organizations establish an accurate baseline for environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance, and then track progress against goals. Capabilities in Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability help you to continuously track progress by visualizing sustainability impact in near real-time. Use powerful data visualizations and dashboards to gain a comprehensive understanding of your organization’s impact and progress toward goals. Use insights to identify and monitor potential gaps in meeting objectives. Rich visuals illustrate the patterns and trends occurring across an enterprise and highlight areas of concern and possible solutions for goals that are at risk.

We’re investing in the following areas to analyze ESG performance against goals:

• Alternate emissions scenarios
• Restatement threshold definition and control

Calculate sustainability footprint
Streamline data ingestion, integration, and calculations by providing a blend of data ingestion methods—from manual input or file imports to automated, direct connections to data sources. This approach lets you collect data from any business, enterprise resource planning system, or platform. Centralize this data and calculate the emissions using specialized factors and formulas.

We’re investing in the following areas to calculate your sustainability footprint:

• We're enhancing energy data models, data import, and reporting.
• We're improving our sustainability calculation services.

Provide data governance
We're helping organizations leverage data governance to drive greater transparency, accountability, and more sustainable outcomes. Our solutions support audit activities by tracing and reporting data back to the source, including all calculations and actions taken against the data. They provide better workflow management and governance by facilitating efficient data use and sharing with prebuilt processes, policies, roles, and standards. We're growing our data governance capabilities with solutions like the Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability data model, sustainability data solutions in Microsoft Fabric, and sustainability reporting capabilities.

To learn more about the entire set of capabilities being delivered during this release wave, check out the release plan for Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability below: