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Title: Unpacking Apple’s mammoth carbon neutral commitment
Post by: HCK on July 27, 2020, 04:05:18 pm
Unpacking Apple’s mammoth carbon neutral commitment

All 99 pages of it...

Earlier this week, Apple graced us with a landmark environmental announcement. Apple wants to become carbon neutral by 2030. Not "lower our emissions", not "reduce our e-waste." Carbon. Neutral.

By 2030, Apple hopes that as far as the environment, the earth, and global warming are concerned, it will be as though Apple doesn't exist. As Apple noted, this is a whole 20 years ahead of the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change's target of carbon neutrality by 2050, the target that underpins the Paris agreement's commitment and is signed by 195 countries. To put Apple's commitment into further perspective, the EU's commitment is to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 40% compared to 1990 levels by 2030, a target it itself describes as "ambitious." Alongside this announcement, Apple released its 2020 environmental report, reflecting on the past year and detailing how it hopes to achieve this target. We read the entire thing, so you don't have to. Here's what...

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