Apple successfully pushes suppliers to use more renewableenergy
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SunPower Station in Hongyuan county, Sichuan province, southwest China on 24th June 2015. Sunpower stations at Hongyuan and Zoige County are the first of Apple major solar projects in China. | Photo by Jie Zhao/Corbis via Getty Images Apple suppliers have more than doubled their clean power over the past year, the company announced today. The renewable energy projects they support prevented 13.9 million metric tons of carbon dioxide pollution from entering the atmosphere. That has almost the same impact as taking 3 million cars off the road for a year, the company says.
It's part of Apple's efforts to curb climate change by becoming completely carbon neutral by 2030. The climate pledge the company made in 2020 set it on a path to reduce greenhouse emissions by 75 percent this decade and find ways to draw down its remaining climate pollution.
Apple has gone a step farther by pledging to slash emissions from its supply chains
Unlike other companies that have only...