Apple Progressing Towards 2030 Goal of Having Carbon Neutral Supply Chain

[MacRumors]

Apple today announced that over 250 suppliers are committed to using renewable energy for all Apple production by 2030. Apple said its manufacturing partners now support over 13 gigawatts of renewable electricity, a nearly 30% increase in the last year.

Apple remains committed to its goal of being carbon neutral for every product that it makes by 2030, and is allocating $4.7 billion in Green Bonds to help finance the expansion of clean energy solutions and emissions reductions around the world.

"At Apple, we're carbon neutral for our own operations and innovating every day to go even further in the urgent work to address climate change," said Apple CEO Tim Cook. "With partners around the world, we're adding even more renewable energy to power our global supply chain and investing in next-generation green technologies. The scale of this challenge is immense — but so is our determination to meet it."

Apple's press release provides more details about the company's clean energy advancements.

Article Link: Apple Progressing Towards 2030 Goal of Having Carbon Neutral Supply Chain

 

[Mike_Trivisonno]

Does anyone really care about this? Whenever I go to the nursery, they are pumping CO2 into the greenhouses like there's no tomorrow. It's what plants like.

 

[Ion-X]

Good for them, but we need an independent third party to verify these claims. It’s very easy for corporations to buy up carbon offsets that don’t actually do anything (often they are credits for green projects that were already going to be built anyways, regardless of the credits) and claim they’ve gone carbon neutral.

 

[Ion-X]

Does anyone really care about this? Whenever I go to the nursery, they are pumping CO2 into the greenhouses like there's no tomorrow. It's what plants like.

In case you forgot your high school biology course, plants like CO2, but humans breathe out CO2 because it is toxic to our cells. It’s literally a waste product. So of course the CO2 should be pumped to organisms that can use it. They remove the CO2 from the atmosphere and produce food as a result, so it’s a win-win. This is done so we have a tomorrow.

I assume you’re playing the fool to cast doubt on the science of climate change. How about a little experiment. Fill up that greenhouse completely with CO2 from an emissions source of your choice and see what happens to the temperature and to the plants inside.

 

[BellSystem]

Says one of the largest ewaste manufacturers….

 

[bruinsrme]

Carbon neutral - so apple will be passing this off to third parties

 

[ignatius345]

All very good, but if they made more of their products upgradeable and repairable they could cut off a LOT of e-waste.

 

[breather]

Carbon neutral - so apple will be passing this off to third parties

They are helping and/or putting pressaure on their suppliers to become carbon neutral.

 

[Lord Hamsa]

Carbon neutral, but at what cost in terms of environmental damage from mining to produce the materials needed?

It's a metric, but any metric in isolation is always going to give you a slanted view.

 

[lkrupp]

To all the skeptics. If Apple were lying about this don't you think Greenpeace and all the environmental activists would be all over them like stink on poop?

 

[slplss]

Every time Tim takes a dump, Apple produces excess carbon dioxide. Also, their products don’t just materialize out of nothing, and they don’t teleport from factories to end users. So nothing more than corporate gibberish to meet their investor’s goals.

 

[randolorian]

This is just to distract you from the unsavory things they are doing as a self-interested, profit-seeking corporation and to make you feel better about doing business with them.

 

[Sasparilla]

Nice, keep on trucking Apple.

 

[mdridwan47]

But won't embrace the right to repair movement because it would hurt their bottom line.

 

[CygnusTC]

So they are completely pulling out of China & India? The #1 & #2 carbon emitters in the world? And have no immediate plans to change that (especially China as they permitted to build (6x more than the rest of the road) coal powered plants in 2022?

 

[needsomecoffee]

Apprx. 100 million AirPods going into landfill every year, but hey the highly manufactured product came from a carbon neutral process. Gotta love Apple -- where is my Fairphone ??

 

[bruinsrme]

They are helping and/or putting pressaure on their suppliers to become carbon neutral.

Helping their suppliers? Carbon neutral = carbon credits - emissions + number of trees planted.
Yup all those solar farms look green to me. Along with the millions of tons of waste and resources it takes to make them. But green it is.

 

[Analog Kid]

Don’t know about Apple’s operations, but there’s a lot of hot air being emitted in these forums.

 

[bruinsrme]

Apprx. 100 million AirPods going into landfill every year, but hey the highly manufactured product came from a carbon neutral process. Gotta love Apple -- where is my Fairphone ??

Green dammit, LOL

 

[crsh1976]

Green-washing is alive and well.

Every year corporations make it sound like the planet is well on its way to recovery thanks to their efforts, yet humanity consumes more than the year before, produces more waste, and generates more pollution than ever.

 

[Sasparilla]

But won't embrace the right to repair movement because it would hurt their bottom line.

True, just like all their competition and even all American businesses like John Deere…so not a surprise at all.

Right to repair is something you need the national government in your country to setup as part of the legislative landscape / playing field.

Now here in the U.S. that is not even thinkable as paid corporate lobbying has tilted / corrupted the (non social issue) legislative landscape since the GOP started it in the early 1970’s (with both parties fully embracing it for 40 years now) the idea of (non social issue) laws favoring the general population (say right to repair or opt in to user data harvesting etc.) over business’s interest is unthinkable (unless it became a hot button social issue forcing the politicians hands).

 

[D-a-a-n]

Says one of the largest ewaste manufacturers….

Cough Airpods cough

 

[D-a-a-n]

To all the skeptics. If Apple were lying about this don't you think Greenpeace and all the environmental activists would be all over them like stink on poop?

They are already

 

[Razorpit]

So they are completely pulling out of China & India? The #1 & #2 carbon emitters in the world? And have no immediate plans to change that (especially China as they permitted to build (6x more than the rest of the road) coal powered plants in 2022?

The green grift is unbelievable. Sink a little money in to something and you’ll control whatever initiative you want. Amazing how quiet all these “green groups” are to China, India, Russia, etc.

 

[riverfreak]

So many cynical and sanctimonious commenters in this thread.

Fortunately, I’m sure they all know the way for Apple to emit less carbon.