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

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 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.

Invest in ESG innovation
Make strategic investments to support your environmental, social, and governance (ESG) strategy with Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability. Our products and services help you to deliver operational excellence, sustainability performance, and business growth.   ESG innovation solutions help identify opportunities to create efficiencies and build resilience by revamping business practices, driving the organizational and operational transformation required to build resilience in a changing economy.

Report impact and progress
This capability helps your organization to gather data for disclosure metrics and prepare Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) metrics with sustainability data solutions in Microsoft Fabric. You can deliver more reliable reports about your sustainability impact and progress. Our solutions provide organizations with the capability to export accurate, timely, and comprehensive sustainability reports to demonstrate progress to stakeholders.

We enable regulatory and voluntary agency reporting templates. For example, our configurable preparatory CSRD templates ease preparation for audits and quantitative regulatory and voluntary agency reporting.

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: