Apple has a big goal of making all its products carbon neutral by 2030.But the company is now being sued over claims that its first such product to hit that goal—Apple Watch—isn’t actually as carbon neutral as Apple says.Here’s what you should know about the new Apple Watch carbon neutral lawsuit.
to include Apple’s statement in response below.Watch buyers believe they were misled by Apple’s carbon neutral claims Jonathan Stempel writes at : Two specific offsetting projects are named as not “genuine”: Kenya’s Chyulu Hills Project China’s Guinan Project Plaintiffs argue that neither of these should actually qualify for providing carbon offsets to Apple: Top comment by urname Liked by 2 people Maybe I don’t understand how carbon offsets work, but isn’t the point that Apple purchases them as some sort of credit towards the carbon produced by the manufacturing of their products?So of course Apple would have no hand in the reductions produced by those projects.The point is that they’re buying those offsets produced.
Not funding the project as an investment, or managing it themselves.View all comments The lawsuit seeks damages from Apple and an injunction blocking Apple from using the term ‘carbon neutral’ in any of its product marketing.Since the 2023 launch of the first carbon neutral Apple Watch models, Apple has also launched the M4 Mac mini as its first carbon neutral Mac, and also expanded the options for carbon neutral watches with the Apple Watch Series 10 line.
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