How these Big Tech stocks are getting a boost from this clean-energy credit
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Amazon.com, Alphabet, Meta Platforms and Microsoft are just a few tech giants making use of carbon credits.
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July 3, 2025
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Advanced ➔ Results Outside the BoxOpinion: How these Big stocks are getting a boost from this clean-energy creditAmazon, Alphabet, Meta Platforms and Microsoft are just a few giants making use of carbon creditsPublished: July 3, 2025 at 7:51 a
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Com is a leader among giants focused on reducing carbon dioxide and moting environmental sustainability
Photo: Amazon titans have a well-deserved reputation for moving fast and things
But in the credibility-battered sustainability segment of carbon credits, Big giants including Alphabet GOOGL GOOG, Amazon
Com AMZN, Apple AAPL, Meta Platforms META and Microsoft MSFT are the ones doing the fixing
And they’re taking time to do it right — at a high level only they can
The market for carbon credits, the instruments that companies typically buy to support carbon-dioxide reduction, or CDR, cratered after a series of reports bashed their ineffectiveness
Even so, survey after survey reveals demand is as strong as ever — but only for verifiable, high-impact CDR initiatives what Big is spinning up
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