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Detailed explanation-1: -Infosys won the award for its carbon neutral program, which delivers scalable, innovative and practical climate actions that address climate change and help drive progress on many other sustainable development goals, such as gender equality, health and well-being and economic opportunity.

Detailed explanation-2: -Commending our efforts in climate action, the UN awarded Infosys with the prestigious United Nations Global Climate Action Award in the ‘Climate Neutral Now’ category.

Detailed explanation-3: -UN Global Climate Action Awards: Climate Neutral Now Climate neutrality is a three step process, which requires individuals, companies and governments to: Measure their climate footprint; Reduce their emissions as much as possible; Offset what they cannot reduce with UN certified emission reductions.

Detailed explanation-4: -Also, many commitments were made by countries, cities, businesses and international coalitions. For example, the Climate Ambitious Coalition contains now “73 countries committed to net zero emissions by 2050, as well as a further 1214 actors (regions, cities, businesses, investors) who have pledged the same goal".