06-07-2009 As you sow: Apple Challenged on Laggard Climate Policies

Excerpt from the As You Sow website:

As You Sow challenged Apple Inc. to match the performance of its peers in a shareholder proposal presented at its annual meeting in May. HP, Dell, IBM and Intel have made public commitments to greenhouse gas reductions; Apple has not.

The proposal asked Apple to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and address other environmental and social impacts such as toxics and recycling, as well as employee and product safety.  After the filing of our proposal, Apple released a series of product-based greenhouse gas emission estimates last October. But this data was inadequate to address our concerns. The company did not report GHG emission data in a way that makes it comparable with peers. Apple has received low scores in several studies evaluating the quality of its public GHG disclosure.