Apple is Cleaning Up Its Most Challenging Carbon Emissions

On Thursday, it announced it's taking some big steps to address some of the emissions associated with making and using those products by investing in a solar farm going up in Texas and cleaning up its supply chain. From a report: Apple is tackling part of its Scope 3 emissions. The biggest challenge for nearly any company is addressing carbon pollution from the manufacturing and use of its products. And Apple has a lot of products in circulation. The company has a mind-bending 1.8 billion devices currently in service around the world. If they were evenly distributed (spoiler: they're not), roughly a quarter of the world's population would own an Apple device. For those Apple devices to be useful, they need to be charged. I mean, duh. By the company's own carbon accounting, all that charging is responsible for nearly 22% of Apple's carbon footprint. Manufacturing all those devices is an even bigger chunk of emissions, accounting for more than 70% of its 22.6 million ton carbon footprint, according to its most recent environmental progress report.

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