Post by account_disabled on Mar 15, 2024 21:32:42 GMT -6
Apple’s lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions rose percent last year – a fact omitted by the company’s recently updated environmental report. But sales far outpaced emissions, rising percent from $. billion in to $. billion in .
The report, which is only available as a website, with separate PDF-based reports on facilities and individual product footprints, lacks many of the year-on-year comparisons CG Leads common to corporate sustainability reports. It says the company’s greenhouse gas emissions per dollar of revenue has fallen . percent since , but doesn’t show how this metric has changed since .
The report does say that in , Apple was responsible for . million metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions, including GHGs from production, transport, product use and product recycling, as well as from Apple facilities and employee travel. The company doesn’t present total emissions for , and Apple’s environmental report is no longer publicly available – whenever Apple publishes a new report, it simply replaces the information on its environmental reporting webpage.
A company spokesperson, however, told Environmental Leader that emissions in came to . million metric tons. This means lifecycle emissions rose by percent over FY . The spokesman said GHGs are up because Apple is selling significantly more products.
According to the environmental report, the majority of the company’s carbon footprint – percent – comes from manufacturing. Another percent comes from product use, percent from transportation, percent from facilities (including data centers) and percent from recycling.
Facilities: GHGs and energy
A separate facilities report, published alongside the environmental website, shows that scope and emissions from the company’s facilities rose from , to , metric tons over FY .
Facility electricity use increased from million to million kWh, staying roughly steady at corporate offices but rising substantially at data centers and retail stores. Both electricity and natural gas use fell on a per-employee basis.
Last year the company achieved percent renewable energy use at its corporate facilities in Austin, Elk Grove, Cork and Munich, and at many sites in Australia, as well as at the Infinite Loop campus in Cupertino (where it last year installed a biogas-powered fuel cell and rooftop PV system) and data centers in Newark, Maiden and Prineville. Apple says it is on track to power its facilities entirely with renewable energy.
The report, which is only available as a website, with separate PDF-based reports on facilities and individual product footprints, lacks many of the year-on-year comparisons CG Leads common to corporate sustainability reports. It says the company’s greenhouse gas emissions per dollar of revenue has fallen . percent since , but doesn’t show how this metric has changed since .
The report does say that in , Apple was responsible for . million metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions, including GHGs from production, transport, product use and product recycling, as well as from Apple facilities and employee travel. The company doesn’t present total emissions for , and Apple’s environmental report is no longer publicly available – whenever Apple publishes a new report, it simply replaces the information on its environmental reporting webpage.
A company spokesperson, however, told Environmental Leader that emissions in came to . million metric tons. This means lifecycle emissions rose by percent over FY . The spokesman said GHGs are up because Apple is selling significantly more products.
According to the environmental report, the majority of the company’s carbon footprint – percent – comes from manufacturing. Another percent comes from product use, percent from transportation, percent from facilities (including data centers) and percent from recycling.
Facilities: GHGs and energy
A separate facilities report, published alongside the environmental website, shows that scope and emissions from the company’s facilities rose from , to , metric tons over FY .
Facility electricity use increased from million to million kWh, staying roughly steady at corporate offices but rising substantially at data centers and retail stores. Both electricity and natural gas use fell on a per-employee basis.
Last year the company achieved percent renewable energy use at its corporate facilities in Austin, Elk Grove, Cork and Munich, and at many sites in Australia, as well as at the Infinite Loop campus in Cupertino (where it last year installed a biogas-powered fuel cell and rooftop PV system) and data centers in Newark, Maiden and Prineville. Apple says it is on track to power its facilities entirely with renewable energy.