Michal Marek Apple executives joined the top executives of 140 other major US corporations to announce a $XNUMX billion investment pledge to fight climate change at the White House.
More than a dozen companies, including Google and Microsoft, are joining the Obama administration's initiative, which wants a massive fight against climate change called American Business Act on Climate Pledge start even before the UN summit, which will be held in Paris this year and will be dedicated to the topic of climate change.
By signing the pledge, companies are committing to support the initiative by investing a total of $140 billion and producing 1 megawatts of renewable energy. Further commitments include reducing emissions by 600%, using only energy from renewable sources and preventing deforestation.
The White House added that other companies should also join the initiative in the fall. Along with Apple, the first thirteen companies to commit include Alcoa, Bank of America, Berkshire Hathaway Energy, Cargill, Coca-Cola, General Motors, Goldman Sachs, Google, Microsoft, PepsiCo, UPS and Walmart.
Apparently, Apple will not come with any new investments. As the White House informs, Apple already obtains all the necessary energy from renewable sources in the United States. By the end of 2016, it should then produce 280 megawatts of green energy worldwide. In addition, carbon dioxide emissions from all of the company's offices, stores and data centers are said to have fallen by 2011 percent since 48.
However, critics note that much of the pollution and emissions are produced by Apple's suppliers, and that the numbers Cupertino boasts are thus somewhat misleading. But Tim Cook hears even these longings, and in May the company promised to reduce emissions across the supply chain as well. At the same time, Apple published his own initiative with the aim of sustainably managing wood thanks to the management of our own forests.
