Apple’s latest sustainability report shows that its greenhouse gas emissions are falling as it pushes suppliers to clean up their operations. Dig into the data in the report, and you’ll find that Apple’s gross carbon dioxide emissions dropped from 20.6 million metric tons in 2022 to 16.1 million metric tons in 2023. That’s a 22 percent reduction over the year. The progress is mostly thanks to its suppliers using cleaner sources of electricity, the company says in a press release today.
As a result, 100 supplier facilities saved 2 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity last year. They also avoided close to 1.7 million metric tons of carbon emissions, Apple says. Apple pledged back in 2020 to become carbon neutral by the end of the decade by reducing emissions by 75 percent and offsetting or capturing the rest. It’s not a perfect plan.