Apple CEO Tim Cook and other tech company CEOs have jointly signed a letter urging the Trump administration to keep the U.S. a member of the Paris Agreement. In 2017, President Donald Trump announced his plans to withdraw from the pact, a landmark accord signed in 2015 by roughly 190 nations that seeks to reduce the world’s carbon emissions.
In November 2018 Apple reaffirmed its commitment to the Paris Agreement on climate change with Lisa Jackson, Apple’s head of environment, policy and social initiatives, telling an arena full of tech leaders at the Web Summit in Lisbon that the tech giant can continue to profit while being environmentally responsible.
“The air we breathe and the planet we leave to our children doesn’t belong to any one party, it doesn’t belong to any one ideology — it belongs to all of us, and governments should be the allies in our work,” she told an arena full of tech leaders. “At Apple we supported and we continue to support the Paris climate agreement.”
CEO Tim Cook issued an internal email to Apple employees on June 1, 2017, saying that corporate environmental efforts will continue even though a personal appeal to President Donald Trump failed to stop him from pulling the U.S. from the Paris climate agreement.
“Climate change is real and we all share a responsibility to fight it,” Cook said. “I want to reassure you that today’s developments will have no impact on Apple’s efforts to protect the environment. We power nearly all of our operations with renewable energy, which we believe is an example of something that’s good for our planet and makes good business sense as well.”
