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Title: Apple Announces Next Step Towards Achieving 2030 Environmental Goal Post by: HCK on March 25, 2025, 04:05:06 pm Apple Announces Next Step Towards Achieving 2030 Environmental Goal
Apple today announced (https://www.apple.com.cn/newsroom/2025/03/apple-launches-new-720-million-investment-fund-to-accelerate-clean-energy-in-china/) it has committed up to 720 million yuan (nearly $100 million) towards accelerating the development of clean energy sources in China, as part of the company's goal of transitioning its supply chain to 100% renewable energy by 2030. (https://images.macrumors.com/article-new/2023/04/Apple-Environment-Feature.jpg) The investment will go towards the second phase of the China Clean Energy Fund, which aims to add approximately 550,000 megawatt-hours of wind and solar capacity to China's grid each year, according to Apple. The first phase added more than a gigawatt of new wind and solar projects across the country, the company said. Apple's overall goal is to become completely carbon neutral (https://www.macrumors.com/2020/07/21/apple-commits-carbon-neutral-supply-chain-2030/) across its entire business, manufacturing supply chain, and product life cycle by 2030. More details about this plan are available on Apple's environment page (https://www.apple.com/environment/). In related news, Apple CEO Tim Cook is currently visiting China, and he has been sharing some photos from his trip on his Weibo account (https://m.weibo.cn/detail/5147792516058048). Cook is once again attending the annual China Development Forum in Beijing, and reports said (https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3303622/apples-cook-praises-deepseek-ahead-shanghai-developer-conference) he described Chinese artificial intelligence platform DeepSeek as "excellent" while there. As part of this pro-China campaign, Apple also announced (https://www.apple.com.cn/newsroom/2025/03/apple-increases-donations-in-china-to-350-million-since-2020/) it is donating to help expand rural teacher training programs in China.<div class="linkback">Tag: Apple Environment (https://www.macrumors.com/guide/apple-environment/)</div> This article, "Apple Announces Next Step Towards Achieving 2030 Environmental Goal (https://www.macrumors.com/2025/03/24/apple-funding-clean-energy-in-china/)" first appeared on MacRumors.com (https://www.macrumors.com) Discuss this article (https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/apple-announces-next-step-towards-achieving-2030-environmental-goal.2453966/) in our forums Source: Apple Announces Next Step Towards Achieving 2030 Environmental Goal (https://www.macrumors.com/2025/03/24/apple-funding-clean-energy-in-china/) |