How these Big Tech stocks are getting a boost from this clean-energy credit

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Amazon, Alphabet, Meta Platforms and Microsoft are just a few tech giants making use of carbon credits

Last Updated: July 5, 2025 at 1:56 p.m. ET
First Published: July 3, 2025 at 7:51 a.m. ET

Tech titans have a well-deserved reputation for moving fast and breaking things. But in the credibility-battered sustainability segment of carbon credits, Big Tech 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 like what Big Tech is spinning up.