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"Apple has also promised that by 2023, its supply chain and product usage will become entirely carbon neutral."

What does this mean exactly? It seems absurd to think that everything that apple does is in any way carbon neutral or neutral whatsoever with respect to the environment. As far as I can tell, Apple has much higher standards than most, but this seems dishonest.

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Apple has published a pretty detailed report on their plans and accomplishments. I also think the article is quoting Apple’s commitments wrong as their full supply chain carbon neutrality commitment is 2030 I think.

https://www.apple.com/environment/pdf/Apple_Environmental_Pr...

Probably that their suppliers all receive some kind of carbon neutral certification (probably given out by Apple themselves rather than an impartial third party).

If you consider all of the Apple hardware that gets thrown out because Apple doesn’t allow them to be repaired, a “carbon neutral supply chain” just seems like a sinister distraction.

For our company that means that we are pumping money into Chinese wind park building projects.

Nothing changes here at the production plant, but on the other side of the earth, somebody is building a wind turbine. That's how you get "carbon neutral" these days.

I imagine it means that they will buy carbon credits or the like. They certainly can't actually make a carbon neutral iPhone but they can pay to pull carbon out of the air or something. It definetely is kind of marketing speak though.

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