Corporate Climate Responsibility Monitor 2025: Tech Sector

This executive summary evaluates the climate strategies of Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta, and Microsoft, warning that rising data centre emissions—expected to triple by 2030—and inconsistent accounting frameworks undermine the credibility of corporate emission targets. While some companies show leadership in hourly renewable energy matching and supply chain strategies, the report calls for transition-specific alignment targets, robust accounting standards for electricity-related emissions, and government regulation of the sector's energy consumption.

• Global emissions from data centres are projected to triple by 2030, leading to scrutiny of the climate strategies of major tech firms including Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta, and Microsoft. The report identifies renewable electricity for data centres and renewable electricity in the supply chain as the critical transitions for the sector, as most emissions stem from data centre electricity and upstream hardware production energy use.
• The credibility of emission targets is being undermined by surging actual emissions and confusing, competing accounting frameworks. While Google and Microsoft are pursuing hourly renewable energy matching and Apple is implementing renewable supply chain strategies, these efforts are isolated exceptions rather than industry standards.
• There is a risk that stakeholders, including regulators and investors, are being misled by validations that label some companies' targets as 1.5 °C-aligned without accounting for the uncertainties associated with rising emissions.

APA

NewClimate Institute (2025). Corporate Climate Responsibility Monitor 2025: Tech Sector. http://www.newclimate.org/resources/publications/corporate-climate-responsibility-monitor-2025-tech-sector

Chicago

NewClimate Institute. Corporate Climate Responsibility Monitor 2025: Tech Sector. 2025. http://www.newclimate.org/resources/publications/corporate-climate-responsibility-monitor-2025-tech-sector.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{newclimateinstitute2025corporate, author = {{NewClimate Institute}}, title = {{Corporate Climate Responsibility Monitor 2025: Tech Sector}}, institution = {NewClimate Institute}, year = {2025}, month = jun, url = {http://www.newclimate.org/resources/publications/corporate-climate-responsibility-monitor-2025-tech-sector}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }