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Throughout April, several environmental organisations will be featured on Xbox console dashboards for players to donate to, including WWF, Water.org, and The Nature Conservancy.
Mojang is also launching a new virtual learning program alongside Microsoft.
Minecraft: Education Edition will let students meet esports in sustainability and explore Climate Futures, a series of Minecraft worlds created in collaboration with the UK Met Office.
Microsoft is also committed to a longer-term plan to reduce its impact on the environment, and aims to operate as a carbon negative, zero waste company by 2030.
This coming Saturday, every 5km walked by a player in either Pokémon Go, Pikmin Bloom or Ingress will see Ecosia plant one tree, with Niantic funding up to 100,000 trees up until the end of July.
Via its environmental arm, SGH Eco, the game has teamed up with Tree-Nation to plant an 'SGH Forest' made up of over 36,000 trees. Players will be able to contribute to the initiative with actions in-game.
Sumo has launched its Climate Champion initiative, with aims to become carbon net zero by 2025.
The company laid out its plans in a blog post and shared employees from each studio named as Climate Champions that have pledged to represent sustainability efforts
Xbox
Microsoft and Xbox have taken a number of actions on Earth Day 2022, including charity drives, streamer celebrations and Game Pass offerings.Throughout April, several environmental organisations will be featured on Xbox console dashboards for players to donate to, including WWF, Water.org, and The Nature Conservancy.
Mojang is also launching a new virtual learning program alongside Microsoft.
Minecraft: Education Edition will let students meet esports in sustainability and explore Climate Futures, a series of Minecraft worlds created in collaboration with the UK Met Office.
Microsoft is also committed to a longer-term plan to reduce its impact on the environment, and aims to operate as a carbon negative, zero waste company by 2030.
Niantic
The AR developer has partnered with search engine Ecosia to host a reforestation initiative.This coming Saturday, every 5km walked by a player in either Pokémon Go, Pikmin Bloom or Ingress will see Ecosia plant one tree, with Niantic funding up to 100,000 trees up until the end of July.
Supertreat/Playtika
Supertreat, a studio under Playtika, has also launched a reforestation initiative through its popular mobile title Solitaire Grand Harvest.Via its environmental arm, SGH Eco, the game has teamed up with Tree-Nation to plant an 'SGH Forest' made up of over 36,000 trees. Players will be able to contribute to the initiative with actions in-game.
Broken Rules
Old Man's journey developer Broken Rules has released a new video highlighting the environmental activists that helped create their hand-painted title Gibbon: Beyond The Trees. The game is also featured in Steam's Earth Appreciation Festival.Sumo Group
Sumo has launched its Climate Champion initiative, with aims to become carbon net zero by 2025.
The company laid out its plans in a blog post and shared employees from each studio named as Climate Champions that have pledged to represent sustainability efforts
