Apple Environmental Responsibility Report

Transportation emissions
metric tons CO2e
200,000
160,000
120,000
80,000
40,000
0
FY13 FY14 FY15 FY16
Transportation emissions
per employee
metric tons CO2e/employee
2.0
1.5
1.5
0.5
0.0
FY13 FY14 FY15 FY16
Business Fleet Vehicles (Scope 1)
Employees’ Commute (Scope 3)
Business Travel (Scope 3)
The cleanest energy is the energy you never use.
We’ve made energy efficiency a priority across all of our facilities,
seeing energy savings of 25 percent or more in the buildings assessed.
We have conducted extensive energy efficiency projects at our corporate
headquarters in Cupertino, California, and the surrounding Santa Clara
Valley where we operate more than 180 buildings. We’ve done the same
at other campuses with high energy use—such as Elk Grove and Austin.
As buildings age and our working needs change, we’ve undertaken
aggressive programs to improve the comfort and function of our facilities,
while ensuring they require less energy.
From efficiency improvements made over the past six years, in fiscal
year 2016 we saved 55 million kilowatt-hours of energy—equivalent to
the electricity needed to power 4500 homes for a year. The efficiency
improvements include upgrading to LED lighting, retro-commissioning
building controls, and upgrading heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning
systems. When designing new buildings, we optimize energy through use
of high-efficiency lighting and heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning
systems and through careful selection of windows, insulation, shading,
and roofing materials to reduce heating and air-conditioning loads.
We’re lessening our impact when we commute or hit
the road.
Even as we shrink the carbon footprint of Apple’s facilities, we’re
continuing to look for ways to reduce carbon emissions from business
fleet vehicles, employees’ commute, and business travel. Those emissions
grew by 8 percent in fiscal year 2016, primarily because our employee
count increased by 15 percent in the same period. However, emissions
from air travel and rental car mileage decreased despite our growth,
reflecting an emphasis on only business-critical travel. We also offer
our U.S. employees a transit subsidy of up to $100 per month, and at
our Cupertino and surrounding Santa Clara Valley campus, we offer free
coach buses to commute to and from our corporate offices. In fiscal year
2016, use of these coach buses increased by 4 percent. When Apple Park
opens, we will add 700 new electric vehicle charging ports, over 1000 new
campus bicycles, and a dedicated transit center.
Environmental Responsibility Report | 2017 Progress Report, Covering FY2016
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