# What are we going to do: CO2 edition

DevFeed: [What are we going to do: CO2 edition](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/what-are-we-going-to-do-co2-edition-37116.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://shostack.org/blog/what-are-we-going-to-do-co2-edition/>)

Author: Adam

Published: 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Shostack & Friends Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/shostack-friends-blog.md>)

Topics: [risk-management](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/risk-management.md>), [Cybersecurity](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cybersecurity.md>), [Microsoft](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/microsoft.md>)

Tags: [analysis](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/analysis.md>), [bypass](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/bypass.md>), [carbon](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/carbon.md>), [climate](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/climate.md>), [cost](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cost.md>), [cybersecurity](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cybersecurity.md>), [ease](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ease.md>), [emissions](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/emissions.md>), [microsoft](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/microsoft.md>), [risk-management](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/risk-management.md>), [usability](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/usability.md>)

## AI overview

The article uses Microsoft's evaluation of carbon-removal proposals to discuss how explicit criteria can improve mitigation and risk-management decisions. It applies this idea to cybersecurity threat modeling, including cost, bypass resistance, usability, and unusual circumstances.

## Source excerpt

What happened when Microsoft tried to buy climate abatements