Introduction Climate Change Resources Smarter Chemistry Engagement and Advocacy Appendix 2023 Environmental Progress Report 23 How we support our suppliers Supporting supplier capacity We also educate suppliers through advanced and ignored costs of externalities, such as air pollution and Galvanizing internal champions We share the experience gained through our transition customized trainings with leading experts. And we carbon emissions. We’re encouraging governments not We’ve been able to quickly scale the Supplier Clean to 100 percent renewable electricity with our suppliers support the creation and growth of renewable energy to subsidize or expand carbon-intensive infrastructure Energy Program by involving supplier-facing Apple because knowledge empowers them to identify and industry associations that our suppliers can join to learn that will inhibit competition and discourage the employees. Apple employees are passionate about the pursue opportunities to decarbonize as their businesses about local opportunities. development of new technologies, like renewable energy environment and are driven to help meet our 2030 carbon evolve. For this reason, we invest heavily in providing and advanced energy storage technologies. We also neutrality goal. We empower supplier-facing Apple education and training across our supply chain through Expanding access to renewable electricity encourage governments to keep pace with the speed of employees — those who often travel to supplier sites or platforms such as our Clean Energy Academy. To support our suppliers’ transition to renewable technological innovation, consider life cycle emissions of have direct, consistent cadence with suppliers — with electricity, we help them find high-quality solutions so energy solutions, and support new energy solutions that the tools they need to help speed a supplier’s transition More than 170 supplier participants in China, Korea, they can decide how best to address their specific needs. effectively reduce global emissions. to 100 percent renewable electricity. This starts with Japan, and Vietnam participated in our Clean Energy When we face barriers to accessing cost-effective clean data and transparency. We track the electricity use and Academies in 2022. The academies offer updates on electricity, we innovate. One such innovation, the China We lend our voice and stand with other companies and renewable procurement of our suppliers, including those available energy procurement options in suppliers’ Clean Energy Fund, enables Apple and our suppliers to NGOs to break down policy barriers to achieve thriving just beginning to learn about renewable electricity and markets, help suppliers prepare to participate in upcoming invest in clean energy. As of March 2023, the fund has clean energy markets. Across regions where our suppliers others that are well on their way to using 100 percent renewable energy pilots, and provide guidance from local invested in over 650 m egawatts of renewable electricity operate, we engage with policy makers to support renewable electricity, and we help them measure progress experts on implementation. This program supplements projects, with nearly 100 percent of those investments renewable energy that’s cost-effective, accessible to and gain access to solutions. We’ve also created internal our Clean Energy Portal, which is available to all suppliers online. We also connect suppliers with opportunities to companies, and sourced from high-quality projects trainings and crafted a simple engagement process, and provides training materials, resources, and country- buy renewable energy directly from project developers with a material impact on local markets. For example, backed by resources for both Apple employees and specific information to guide suppliers in their transition to and utilities as those models emerge around the globe. with RE100, an initiative that brings together the world’s suppliers. By connecting our suppliers with resources and 100 percent renewable electricity. In 2022, we announced most influential businesses through commitments to providing transparency on supplier progress, our teams plans to donate these resources to create a first-of- Advocating for policy change use 100 percent renewable electricity, we’ve identified are scaling impact across our supply chain. its-kind public training platform that will be available to Our collective ability to procure and enable high-quality country-level policy barriers to procuring renewable businesses across many different industries. This platform renewable energy is often influenced by local policies. electricity. RE100 collates the challenges that member will give companies of all sizes — in Apple’s supply chain Effective government policies and rules can remove companies face and advocates for changes on our behalf. and beyond — access to the resources and advocacy significant barriers to low-carbon solutions and enable We also cofounded the Asia Clean Energy Coalition, networks we’ve cultivated for nearly a decade. solutions to rapidly scale. We recognize that to transition which convenes a diverse coalition of leading renewables to renewable energy effectively, clean energy investments private sector actors to enact critical policy shifts in need to make financial sense. But carbon-intensive Asia that will enable a variety of corporate procurement energy sources, like coal and gas, often have an unfair options for renewable energy. price advantage because of explicit subsidies and the