Apple wins unprecedented award for its environmental efforts in China

Apple announced this week, through its Chinese website, that it was the first company to receive an award from Institute of Public & Environmental Affairs (IPE) for the environmental efforts in China, specifically for its contributions to making its entire supply chain more sustainable.

The award, which is part of the Corporate Information Transparency Index (Corporate Information Transparency Index, or CITI), honors the company's environmental efforts after it has ranked first in the last five years. As part of receiving this award, Ma stressed that working to help “promote environmental management in the country”.

In fact, the company is already working on it: as we have reported, the company has opened three new wind farms in China, in addition to announcing a million dollar fund for clean energy generation there. In addition, Ma has teamed with IPE to support and execute projects that will “reduce environmental impacts outside its own supply chain” which is extremely positive as the Cupertino giant also strives to make its partners sustainable in their activities.

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Apple's managing director in Greater China, Ge Yue, said the award represents Apple's goal to produce not only the best but also the most beneficial products:

We always believe that in order to create the best products in the world, we need to create the products that are most beneficial as well. For this reason, we are committed to promoting the development of smart and sustainable production. I am very grateful to director Ma Jun and IPE for their cooperation with us. We believe that through our joint efforts we will be able to achieve greater achievements in protecting the Earth and its important resources.

In the statement, Apple also said its clean water project in China helped its suppliers save more than 25 billion gallons of water. In addition, the company emphasized that more than 40% of its partners are committed to using renewable energy sources in their production.

via Apple World Today