According to Brad Smith, for businesses to combat global warming, staff need to learn more about carbon accounting, green purchasing, and supply chain management.

Brad Smith, the president of Microsoft Corp., is urging businesses, educational institutions, and governments to drastically expand the amount of individuals they train for new and redesigned positions addressing the climate catastrophe. The software giant claims that the lack of expertise in fields like carbon accounting, green purchasing, and supply chain management is a threat to the kind of progress required to stop global warming. The software giant has committed to removing more carbon than it emits by 2030.

In order to provide a report on what was required, the business analysed 15 firms with the Boston Consulting Group that they claimed were leading the pack in sustainability innovation.

Through its LinkedIn business, Microsoft intends to create and distribute more training materials, collaborate with NGOs and groups affiliated with the United Nations and the International Monetary Fund, and host a conference of chief sustainability officers from various corporations to exchange best practises.

Today in Lisbon at the Web Summit conference, Smith will talk about the initiative. He discussed the workforce requirements for combating climate change in his interview with Bloomberg Green. Editing and brevity were applied to the interview.

Around 3,900 businesses from all across the world have made climate promises. But as a top technology provider to these businesses, we're discovering that we all now need to figure out how to translate these commitments into advancement. It's simpler to say than to do.

It requires a genuine revolution in various corporate procedures and the centralization of digital technology. But at its core, everything depends on developing a highly skilled workforce.

Microsoft offers software that allows businesses to monitor their environmental effect. However, Smith emphasised that businesses need more than technology to combat global warming while also revealing plans to create green educational materials that will be available on Microsoft-owned LinkedIn.

According to a report released on Wednesday by Microsoft and the Boston Consulting Group, 68% of corporate environmental executives were recruited from within and frequently included team members without degrees in sustainability. The main sources of the findings were surveys and interviews with Microsoft and eight other sizable businesses in industries including consumer goods and finance.