Microsoft inks deal with CO280 to remove carbon from US pulp and paper mills

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US tech giant inks yet another carbon removal credits deal, this time with firm which removes and permanently stores CO2 from pulp and paper mills

Microsoft has inked an agreement to purchase 3.69 million tonnes of CO2 credits over a 12-year period from carbon dioxide removal (CDR) specialist CO280, in what the two firms hailed as "one of the largest...

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