Climate Adaptation
Apple’s Climate Promise Depends on Taiwan Partners Going Green
- TSMC and Foxconn use more clean energy, cut carbon emissions
- Apple supply chain and products to be carbon neutral by 2030
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Apple Inc. has gone carbon neutral. But in order to say the same for its flagship iPhone, it’s going to need help from Taiwan.
More than three-quarters of the emissions that come from making Apple’s ubiquitous products come from outside suppliers, according to the company’s Environmental Progress Report. That includes Taiwanese electronics giants like TSMC and Foxconn, which still get about 90% of their power from non-renewable sources, according to company reports.