What is Green Bond?
According to International Capital Market Association,
Green bonds enable capital-raising and investment for new and existing projects with environmental benefits.
The Green Bond Principles (GBP) seek to support issuers in financing environmentally sound and sustainable projects that foster a net-zero emissions economy and protect the environment.
It emphasizes the required transparency, accuracy and integrity of the information that will be disclosed and reported by issuers to stakeholders through core components and key recommendations.
Apple’s $4.7 billion Green Bond spend is helping to create 1.2 gigawatts of clean power.
Apple’s newly completed renewable projects, part of the company’s planned $4.7 billion Green Bond spend, are bringing clean energy to local communities while reducing carbon emissions. The projects will generate 1.2 gigawatts of renewable energy globally, with Apple adding over 350 megawatts of newly installed renewable energy over the last year in Nevada, Illinois, Virginia, and Denmark.
Apple’s Green Bond issuances are among the largest in the private sector . . .
All of Apple’s data centers have been powered by 100 percent renewable energy since 2014.
It's a work-in-progress!
Within Green Bond Project, Apple has continued funding new projects that support low carbon design and engineering, energy efficiency, renewable energy, carbon mitigation, and carbon sequestration.
Several Latest Investments in Renewable Energy of Apple are bulit around the US, and more . . .
Onsite solar project outside of Reno, Nevada
Wind farm outside of Chicago
Solar project in Fredericksburg, Virginia
Largest onshore wind turbines in Denmark