The company said 21 of its suppliers recently vowed to obtain all their electricity from renewable sources.
Apple chief executive Tim Cook and former Environmental Protection Agency administrator Lisa Jackson arrive for a state dinner at the White House in 2018.
Yet in a testimony to the complexity of reducing the single corporation’s contributions to raising global temperatures, Apple acknowledged that nearly three-fourths of its carbon footprint comes from manufacturing, almost all of which Apple outsources. The announcement from Apple, whose market capitalization for a time last year crossed the $1 trillion threshold, comes at a time when shareholders and customers are increasingly asking companies to step into the leadership void left by the U.S. government after President Trump’s commitment to withdraw from the Paris climate accord.
Apple is among a handful by deep-pocketed Silicon Valley firms to take steps toward getting more of the power for manufacturing and data processing from carbon-free sources. At the same time, environmentalists have pointed to the incessant cycle of product releases for contributing to the mountains of “e-waste” as consumers abandon old devices for new ones. Apple’s decision to frequently change the design of charging ports on its cellphones and laptops, for example, leads to a lot of abandoned power cords.
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