Apple revealed that it has scaled the capacity of renewable energy procured by suppliers for the manufacturing of its products to over 20 GW in 2025, increasing by nearly 10% over the prior year, and more than doubling since 2021, according to the company’s annual Environmental Progress Report.
Product manufacturing accounts for over half of Apple’s total carbon footprint, with efforts to address suppliers’ emissions through a transition to clean energy forming one of the company’s primary initiatives to achieve its climate goals, set by the company in 2020, to become carbon neutral across its entire business, manufacturing supply chain, and product life cycle by 2030. The goal envisions a 75% emissions reduction by 2030, the company has also committed to work toward a 90% emissions reduction by 2050.
Apple’s Supplier Code of Conduct requires the company’s entire direct manufacturing supply chain to use 100% renewable electricity for all Apple production before 2030. Apple launched a Supplier Clean Energy Program in 2015 aimed at enabling suppliers’ transition to clean, renewable electricity through levers such as policy advocacy, information about renewable energy procurement options, data insights, and engagement opportunities with renewable energy experts.
In total, Apple reported that operational renewable energy capacity in its supply chain grew to 20.7 GW in 2025, up from 18.9 GW in 2024 and 10.3 GW in 2021, with renewable energy usage by suppliers increasing to 38.3 million MWh last year, up from 31.3 million MWh in the prior year.
Apple estimated that the renewable energy procured by suppliers avoided more than 26 million metric tons of GHG emissions in 2025 – up from 21.8 million tons in 2024 – with an additional 2 million tons avoided through the company’s work with suppliers to optimize their energy efficiency, and 6 million tons through the use of low-carbon materials.
Despite the progress in transitioning suppliers to clean energy, however, the company reported that its total value chain GHG emissions remained flat for the year, as reductions in product manufacturing, operational and product use emissions were offset by increased product transportation emissions. Overall, Apple’s GHG emissions footprint remains 60% below 2015 levels.
Apple outlined a series of other sustainability achievements in its report, including revealing that it completed the transition to 100% fiber-based packaging last year, meeting its pledge to remove plastic from packaging by 2025, and that it also reached 30% recycled content across all of its products shipped in 2025, including 100% recycled cobalt in all batteries designed by Apple, and 100% recycled rare earth elements in magnets. The company also announced that it replenished more than half the water it withdrew to support its global offices, data centers, and retail stores in 2025.
Sabih Khan, Apple’s Chief Operating Officer, said:
“Across every part of our business, we’re showing how innovation and collaboration can turn big ideas and bold ambitions into measurable progress. From expanding recycled material to removing plastic from our packaging, we’re setting new benchmarks that inspire us to reach further and work even harder for the good of people and planet.”
Click here to access Apple’s Environmental Progress Report.
