Beyond the razzle-dazzle, Apple’s climate claims deserve scrutiny

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The Sydney Morning Herald2023-09-15

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CO2 is only a mere 0.03-0.04% of earth's Atmosphere, if it gets below 0.02% plant life and all life starts dying!
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And the sheer volume of recycled materials in Apple’s iPhones and other products is genuinely impressive.After that, the promises get murkier. For example, it isn’t entirely clear paper packaging is superior to plastic. Though most of the fibres in Apple’s “fibre-based” packaging are recycled, the rest come from precious carbon-storing trees. Ocean shipping does emit far less carbon than air transport, but it also spews pollution directly into the oceans.More important, Apple’s emissions goals depend heavily on carbon offsets, which are credits companies and people get for investing in projects to reduce carbon — often, planting trees.This is a company, after all, with a history of making green claims while also making it difficult to reuse and repair its devices.Carbon offsets have been under intense scrutiny lately for promising more than they can deliver. Too many give credit for measures that would happen anyway, such as not chopping down trees, for example. 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Few other enterprises in human history have managed to efficiently separate people from their money at such scale.</p><p>So when this marketing juggernaut turns its prowess to selling its own green credentials, you should expect nothing less than, say, Oscar winner Octavia Spencer playing Mother Nature in a slick viral video.</p><p>But the credibility of Apple’s environmental claims is a little fuzzier than the razzle-dazzle would have you believe.</p><figure><div aria-label=\"enlarge image\" role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\"><picture><source height=\"494\" media=\"(min-width: 1024px)\" srcset=\"https://static.ffx.io/images/$zoom_0.379%2C$multiply_0.9788%2C$ratio_1.5%2C$width_756%2C$x_1%2C$y_0/t_crop_custom/q_86%2Cf_auto/069438b9c129591436808078ea4da9854bfc4487, https://static.ffx.io/images/$zoom_0.379%2C$multiply_1.9577%2C$ratio_1.5%2C$width_756%2C$x_1%2C$y_0/t_crop_custom/q_62%2Cf_auto/069438b9c129591436808078ea4da9854bfc4487 2x\" width=\"740\"/><source height=\"512\" media=\"(min-width: 768px)\" srcset=\"https://static.ffx.io/images/$zoom_0.379%2C$multiply_1.0159%2C$ratio_1.5%2C$width_756%2C$x_1%2C$y_0/t_crop_custom/q_86%2Cf_auto/069438b9c129591436808078ea4da9854bfc4487, https://static.ffx.io/images/$zoom_0.379%2C$multiply_2.0317%2C$ratio_1.5%2C$width_756%2C$x_1%2C$y_0/t_crop_custom/q_62%2Cf_auto/069438b9c129591436808078ea4da9854bfc4487 2x\" width=\"768\"/><img height=\"390\" src=\"https://static.ffx.io/images/$zoom_0.379%2C$multiply_0.7725%2C$ratio_1.5%2C$width_756%2C$x_1%2C$y_0/t_crop_custom/q_86%2Cf_auto/069438b9c129591436808078ea4da9854bfc4487\" srcset=\"https://static.ffx.io/images/$zoom_0.379%2C$multiply_0.7725%2C$ratio_1.5%2C$width_756%2C$x_1%2C$y_0/t_crop_custom/q_86%2Cf_auto/069438b9c129591436808078ea4da9854bfc4487, https://static.ffx.io/images/$zoom_0.379%2C$multiply_1.545%2C$ratio_1.5%2C$width_756%2C$x_1%2C$y_0/t_crop_custom/q_62%2Cf_auto/069438b9c129591436808078ea4da9854bfc4487 2x\" width=\"584\"/></picture></div><figcaption><p><span>Attendees at this week’s Apple Event, the company’s annual celebration of mass consumerism.</span><cite><span>Credit: </span>Bloomberg</cite></p></figcaption></figure><p>Tuesday’s Apple Event, the company’s annual celebration of mass consumerism, featured not only Spencer’s Mother Nature but a barrage of promises about all the ways Apple is looking out for her:</p></div><div><ul><li>A new watch lineup Apple calls its first “carbon neutral” product, a label Apple vows will apply to all its products by 2030</li><li>No more leather in watch bands or accessories</li><li>No more plastic in packaging by 2025</li><li>Shipping more products by sea rather than by air</li><li>Using more recycled materials</li><li>Using renewable energy for some watch manufacturing, along with corporate offices, data centres and retail stores</li><li>A vow to cut carbon emissions by 75 per cent from 2015 levels by 2030</li><li>A promise to use only “high quality” carbon credits to make up for whatever emissions Apple can’t eliminate</li><li>A new tool in the Home app called “Grid Forecast” that alerts users when green power is available</li></ul><p>These days, corporate “wokeism” attracts conservative backlash faster than sound draws the monsters in <em>A Quiet Place</em>. Apple deserves kudos for making as much noise about its social values as possible. In this, at least, the company is on the right side of history, setting a good example for its peers.</p><p>Apple also knows its target audience, of course; its user base leans young, female and fairly well-to-do. But if capitalism has any hope of helping solve the climate-change problem it created, then this is basically how it should work: The invisible hand of the market guiding companies and customers toward more-sustainable behaviour.</p><p>Some of Apple’s choices will also do clear and measurable good. Ditching leather, for example, is big: Cattle ranching is responsible for 14.5 per cent of the planet’s emissions, by one estimate. Committing to renewable energy and setting aggressive targets for emissions reduction are important. Grid Forecast could nudge electricity use in a positive direction. And the sheer volume of recycled materials in Apple’s iPhones and other products is genuinely impressive.</p></div><div><p>After that, the promises get murkier. For example, it isn’t entirely clear paper packaging is superior to plastic. Though most of the fibres in Apple’s “fibre-based” packaging are recycled, the rest come from precious carbon-storing trees. Ocean shipping does emit far less carbon than air transport, but it also spews pollution directly into the oceans.</p><p>More important, Apple’s emissions goals depend heavily on carbon offsets, which are credits companies and people get for investing in projects to reduce carbon — often, planting trees.</p><blockquote><p>This is a company, after all, with a history of making green claims while also making it difficult to reuse and repair its devices.</p></blockquote><p>Carbon offsets have been under intense scrutiny lately for promising more than they can deliver. Too many give credit for measures that would happen anyway, such as not chopping down trees, for example. Without a central authority to assure quality control for offsets, they will always be suspect. Rainforest offsets certified by Verra, one of the private standard-setters Apple uses, have been accused of being mostly “worthless.”</p><p>Apple is savvy enough to acknowledge the controversy. It promises its offsets will be “real, additional, measurable, and quantified, with systems in place to avoid double-counting, and that ensure permanence.”</p></div><div><p>Its carbon-removal projects include building forests and other ecosystems in South America. Such a “rewilding” approach should hopefully store more carbon and be more sustainable than single-species tree plantations. Otherwise the trees risk dying, releasing their carbon right back into the atmosphere.</p><div><span><span></span><span>Loading</span></span></div><p>More than 300 of Apple’s suppliers have vowed to use 100 per cent clean energy, but many can hit that goal only by using “renewable energy certificates,” another type of credit.</p><p>Apple was a relative standout in the latest Corporate Climate Responsibility Monitor by the New Climate Institute, a nonprofit group that tracks corporate green promises. It scored decent marks for transparency and goals. It was one of only a few companies studied that seemed on track to helping the world avoid a long-term warming trend of 1.5C above preindustrial averages.</p><p>At the same time, Apple was knocked for not cutting emissions even more aggressively, for relying too much on offsets and for not setting a longer-term target for reduction. It has addressed the latter issue by promising a 90 per cent reduction by 2050.</p></div><div><p>But the value of the rest remains to be seen. This is a company, after all, with a history of making green claims while also making it difficult to reuse and repair its devices. Given that manufacturing new phones is Apple’s biggest carbon source by far, this was a critical contradiction.</p><p>Apple has started to address the repair problem while again declaring itself a corporate leader in fighting climate change. That’s all the more reason to hold it to a higher standard.</p><p><em>Mark Gongloff is a Bloomberg Opinion editor and columnist covering climate change. A former managing editor of Fortune.com, he ran the HuffPost’s business and technology coverage and was a reporter and editor for the Wall Street Journal.</em></p><p><strong>Bloomberg</strong></p><p><strong><i>The Business Briefing newsletter delivers major stories, exclusive coverage and expert opinion. </i><i>Sign up to get it every weekday morning</i><i>.</i></strong></p></div></body></html>","source":"smh_stock","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Beyond the razzle-dazzle, Apple’s climate claims deserve scrutiny</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nBeyond the razzle-dazzle, Apple’s climate claims deserve scrutiny\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2023-09-15 09:00 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/beyond-the-razzle-dazzle-apple-s-climate-claims-deserve-scrutiny-20230914-p5e4me.html><strong>The Sydney Morning Herald</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>Apple’s true specialty isn’t consumer technology. It’s marketing. Few other enterprises in human history have managed to efficiently separate people from their money at such scale.So when this ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/beyond-the-razzle-dazzle-apple-s-climate-claims-deserve-scrutiny-20230914-p5e4me.html\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"BK4571":"数字音乐概念","IE0004445015.USD":"JANUS HENDERSON BALANCED \"A2\" (USD) ACC","LU0011850046.USD":"贝莱德全球长线股票 A2 USD","BK4507":"流媒体概念","BK4534":"瑞士信贷持仓","BK4585":"ETF&股票定投概念","BK4576":"AR","BK4533":"AQR资本管理(全球第二大对冲基金)","LU0097036916.USD":"贝莱德美国增长A2 USD","LU0320765059.SGD":"FTIF - Franklin US Opportunities A Acc SGD","LU0511384066.AUD":"SUSTAINABLE GLOBAL THEMATIC PORTFOLIO \"A\" (AUDHDG) ACC","BK4575":"芯片概念","BK4566":"资本集团","LU0198837287.USD":"UBS (LUX) EQUITY SICAV - USA GROWTH \"P\" (USD) ACC","LU0444971666.USD":"天利全球科技基金","AAPL":"苹果","LU0289961442.SGD":"SUSTAINABLE GLOBAL THEMATIC PORTFOLIO \"AX\" (SGD) ACC","BK4501":"段永平概念","BK4559":"巴菲特持仓","LU0149725797.USD":"汇丰美国股市经济规模基金","BK4579":"人工智能","BK4588":"碎股","BK4550":"红杉资本持仓","LU0127658192.USD":"EASTSPRING INVESTMENTS GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY \"A\" (USD) ACC","IE00BKVL7J92.USD":"Legg Mason ClearBridge - US Equity Sustainability Leaders A Acc USD","IE00BJTD4N35.SGD":"Neuberger Berman US Long Short Equity A1  Acc SGD-H","LU0289739343.SGD":"SUSTAINABLE GLOBAL THEMATIC PORTFOLIO \"A\" (SGD) ACC","LU0256863811.USD":"ALLIANZ US EQUITY \"A\" INC","IE00B775SV38.USD":"NEUBERGER BERMAN US MULTICAP OPPORTUNITIES \"A\" (USD) ACC","IE00BFSS7M15.SGD":"Janus Henderson Balanced A Acc SGD-H","IE00B3S45H60.SGD":"Neuberger Berman US Multicap Opportunities A Acc SGD-H","LU0238689110.USD":"贝莱德环球动力股票基金","LU0234570918.USD":"高盛全球核心股票组合Acc Close","LU0170899867.USD":"EASTSPRING INVESTMENTS WORLD VALUE EQUITY  \"A\" (USD) ACC","BK4512":"苹果概念","IE0004445239.USD":"JANUS HENDERSON US FORTY \"A2\" (USD) ACC","LU0072462426.USD":"贝莱德全球配置 A2","IE00BJJMRX11.SGD":"Janus Henderson Balanced A Acc SGD","LU0456855351.SGD":"JPMorgan Funds - Global Equity A (acc) SGD","IE00BJTD4V19.USD":"NEUBERGER BERMAN US LONG SHORT EQUITY \"A1\" (USD) ACC","LU0056508442.USD":"贝莱德世界科技基金A2","IE00B1XK9C88.USD":"PINEBRIDGE US LARGE CAP RESEARCH ENHANCED \"A\" (USD) ACC","LU0353189680.USD":"富国美国全盘成长基金Cl A Acc","IE00BJJMRY28.SGD":"Janus Henderson Balanced A Inc SGD","IE00BSNM7G36.USD":"NEUBERGER BERMAN SYSTEMATIC GLOBAL SUSTAINABLE VALUE \"A\" (USD) ACC","BK4532":"文艺复兴科技持仓","BK4515":"5G概念","LU0109392836.USD":"富兰克林科技股A","BK4554":"元宇宙及AR概念","BK4553":"喜马拉雅资本持仓"},"source_url":"https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/beyond-the-razzle-dazzle-apple-s-climate-claims-deserve-scrutiny-20230914-p5e4me.html","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"2367652778","content_text":"Apple’s true specialty isn’t consumer technology. It’s marketing. Few other enterprises in human history have managed to efficiently separate people from their money at such scale.So when this marketing juggernaut turns its prowess to selling its own green credentials, you should expect nothing less than, say, Oscar winner Octavia Spencer playing Mother Nature in a slick viral video.But the credibility of Apple’s environmental claims is a little fuzzier than the razzle-dazzle would have you believe.Attendees at this week’s Apple Event, the company’s annual celebration of mass consumerism.Credit: BloombergTuesday’s Apple Event, the company’s annual celebration of mass consumerism, featured not only Spencer’s Mother Nature but a barrage of promises about all the ways Apple is looking out for her:A new watch lineup Apple calls its first “carbon neutral” product, a label Apple vows will apply to all its products by 2030No more leather in watch bands or accessoriesNo more plastic in packaging by 2025Shipping more products by sea rather than by airUsing more recycled materialsUsing renewable energy for some watch manufacturing, along with corporate offices, data centres and retail storesA vow to cut carbon emissions by 75 per cent from 2015 levels by 2030A promise to use only “high quality” carbon credits to make up for whatever emissions Apple can’t eliminateA new tool in the Home app called “Grid Forecast” that alerts users when green power is availableThese days, corporate “wokeism” attracts conservative backlash faster than sound draws the monsters in A Quiet Place. Apple deserves kudos for making as much noise about its social values as possible. In this, at least, the company is on the right side of history, setting a good example for its peers.Apple also knows its target audience, of course; its user base leans young, female and fairly well-to-do. But if capitalism has any hope of helping solve the climate-change problem it created, then this is basically how it should work: The invisible hand of the market guiding companies and customers toward more-sustainable behaviour.Some of Apple’s choices will also do clear and measurable good. Ditching leather, for example, is big: Cattle ranching is responsible for 14.5 per cent of the planet’s emissions, by one estimate. Committing to renewable energy and setting aggressive targets for emissions reduction are important. Grid Forecast could nudge electricity use in a positive direction. And the sheer volume of recycled materials in Apple’s iPhones and other products is genuinely impressive.After that, the promises get murkier. For example, it isn’t entirely clear paper packaging is superior to plastic. Though most of the fibres in Apple’s “fibre-based” packaging are recycled, the rest come from precious carbon-storing trees. Ocean shipping does emit far less carbon than air transport, but it also spews pollution directly into the oceans.More important, Apple’s emissions goals depend heavily on carbon offsets, which are credits companies and people get for investing in projects to reduce carbon — often, planting trees.This is a company, after all, with a history of making green claims while also making it difficult to reuse and repair its devices.Carbon offsets have been under intense scrutiny lately for promising more than they can deliver. Too many give credit for measures that would happen anyway, such as not chopping down trees, for example. Without a central authority to assure quality control for offsets, they will always be suspect. Rainforest offsets certified by Verra, one of the private standard-setters Apple uses, have been accused of being mostly “worthless.”Apple is savvy enough to acknowledge the controversy. It promises its offsets will be “real, additional, measurable, and quantified, with systems in place to avoid double-counting, and that ensure permanence.”Its carbon-removal projects include building forests and other ecosystems in South America. Such a “rewilding” approach should hopefully store more carbon and be more sustainable than single-species tree plantations. Otherwise the trees risk dying, releasing their carbon right back into the atmosphere.LoadingMore than 300 of Apple’s suppliers have vowed to use 100 per cent clean energy, but many can hit that goal only by using “renewable energy certificates,” another type of credit.Apple was a relative standout in the latest Corporate Climate Responsibility Monitor by the New Climate Institute, a nonprofit group that tracks corporate green promises. It scored decent marks for transparency and goals. It was one of only a few companies studied that seemed on track to helping the world avoid a long-term warming trend of 1.5C above preindustrial averages.At the same time, Apple was knocked for not cutting emissions even more aggressively, for relying too much on offsets and for not setting a longer-term target for reduction. It has addressed the latter issue by promising a 90 per cent reduction by 2050.But the value of the rest remains to be seen. This is a company, after all, with a history of making green claims while also making it difficult to reuse and repair its devices. Given that manufacturing new phones is Apple’s biggest carbon source by far, this was a critical contradiction.Apple has started to address the repair problem while again declaring itself a corporate leader in fighting climate change. That’s all the more reason to hold it to a higher standard.Mark Gongloff is a Bloomberg Opinion editor and columnist covering climate change. A former managing editor of Fortune.com, he ran the HuffPost’s business and technology coverage and was a reporter and editor for the Wall Street Journal.BloombergThe Business Briefing newsletter delivers major stories, exclusive coverage and expert opinion. 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