Similar to other industries the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) industries has been...

How do you hit a carbon emissions target if you don’t know how much you are producing? This question was...

Europe’s own environmental visionary Dennis Pamlin (Senior Associate Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and...

During one of his visits in Brussels, we got the chance to interview Rob Bernard, the Chief Environmental...

The European Environment Agency is using leading-edge technologies to enable citizens to find out about the...

Learn how the government agency - European Environment Agency - is raising environmental awareness...

I'm often asked why Microsoft is getting involved in environmental issues: people assume it is not our issue...

40 years ago Earth Day started as a grassroots movement to build ecological awareness on an issue largely...

Computer science can play a major role in fuelling scientific breakthroughs in other fields, but only if it...

An agency of the European Union, the European Environment Agency (EEA) provides independent and reliable...

Fiat Ecodrive lets you record your driving information on a usb stick and then use this information find out...

The European Commission as part of the EU Sustainable Energy Week (23-25 March) will once again run the...

I recently attended the European Commission’s ICT for Energy Efficiency event in Brussels where 4 associations...

Hear me talking about the Eye on Earth online tool. This website shows data from thousands of air and water...

I've just re-watched this video of Jean-Philippe Courtois talking to INSEAD about the role that IT can play in...

New and unique climate site illustrates for the first time in 3D how climate change affects you, your city and...

As you may have read before on this site, we opened one of the largest data centres in Europe just last year...

Think industry is the biggest emitter of Co2?

It’s not a new story, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t deserve to be told again! In 2008, Fiat introduced...

Volvo chose Microsoft technology to help improve the company's collaboration, communication and...

Major advances in data availability, together with recent advances in computational modeling and data analysis...

The Environmental Sustainability Dashboard for Microsoft Dynamics AX enables midsize businesses to easily...

Scientists from Microsoft Research in the United Kingdom and the United States and University of California...

Copenhagen has succeeded as Kyoto did to bring the world’s attention to issue of climate change.

The Environmental Sustainability Dashboard for Microsoft Dynamics AX enables midsize businesses to easily...

Join our partner – EEA – and  help build a community showing how we can IMPACT and CONTRIBUTE to...

With Eye On Earth providing near to real-time information on Water and Air quality, encouraging two-way...

The European Environment Agency and Microsoft launched their latest project this month - the Environmental...

A group of scientists from Microsoft Research in the United Kingdom and the United States and University of...

We were very proud to announce the grand opening of our Dublin data centre last month. This state of the art...

There’s a new technology coming into your home. But unlike many, this one should save you money.

Big challenges can encourage big solutions, and at the end of last year there was no challenge bigger than...

Environmental scientists face many challenges in monitoring and understanding our planet’s changing climate.

In May 2009, a Brussels seminar examined the potential of computers to save energy – and the obstacles to...

Software tools that help researchers to study the role of forests in climate change could make it easier to...

Microsoft’s first European “mega data centre”, which opened recently on the western outskirts of Dublin, uses...

A new research group in Paris aims to use optimisation theory to find answers to the challenges of ensuring an...

Earlier this week Microsoft joined with the European Environment Agency to launch a compelling example of how...

Through Eye on Earth, a repository for geographical environmental information created by the European...

Prof. Jacqueline McGlade at EEA, Rob Bernard, Chief Environmental Strategist at Microsoft Corp and Ludo de...

Eye on Earth is a partnership created by the European Environment Agency (EEA) and Microsoft that allows...

Prof. Jacqueline McGlade at EEA, Rob Bernard, Chief Environmental Strategist at Microsoft Corp and Ludo de...

While living in a world of easily available mass market technology, it always strikes me how little we do with...

Atlas, an online portal, uses the intuitive interface of Bing Maps to allow people to view stories about the...

 We at Microsoft are delighted to see the opening of the first "mega data center" here in Europe. The...

This week I have been lucky to be one of a handful of business executives speaking at the European Union’s...

Eye on Earth allows governments, policymakers and individuals to compare the cleanliness of bathing water from...

The internet is developing at a tremendous pace as more businesses and peopleworldwide gain access to an ever...

  Car Manufacturers have made tremendous progress in reducing vehicle emissions. Today’s cars create far...

As concerns about global warming grow, scientists are turning to sophisticated computational models to better...

The European Commission has called on national governments and companies to apply information and...

We are all thinking more carefully about our impact on the environment, and this applies to one of the biggest...

Small computing devices, such as enhanced cameras, are becoming smarter and more capable: not only do they...

The European Environment Agency is pleased with users’ responses to its water quality site and plans to expand...

As computers become more prevalent in our offices and homes, not only as PCs but also in media and...

For most consumers, the amount of energy that each electrical appliance in a household consumes is hidden.

One of the gigs at this year's Roskilde Festival, the largest music festival in Europe, didn't take place on...

European Environment Agency and Microsoft Eye on Earth Observatory bring Europaan beach quality into sharp...

Few research issues are as significant as trying to work out how climate change might affect the environment....