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Microsoft is behind schedule on a goal of reducing carbon emissions per unit of revenue by 20 percent by 2012, from a 2007 baseline, according to the company’s 2011 Citizenship Report.

The company emitted 1,502,736 metric tons of CO2e in 2010, 16 percent more than its 1,299,356 metric tons in 2009. Despite setting its goal in terms of revenue, the report only provided CO2 data as absolute emissions.

From 2009 to 2010, Microsoft’s scope 1 emissions rose from 41,649 to 47,383, and scope 2 emissions rose from 1,035,385 to 1,144,271.

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