Climate Policy Engagement Analysis
Climate Policy Engagement Overview: Apple appears to broadly support climate policy across the globe, though recent evidence of direct engagement (from 2023 to present) is somewhat limited. Apple appears most actively engaged on climate policy related to renewable energy development, with evidence of engagement in the US, EU, and multiple countries throughout its supply chain in Asia. The company is a member of several industry associations which also actively engage on climate policy, including the Clean Energy Buyers Association (CEBA), where an Apple executive serves on the Advisory Board.
Top-line Messaging on Climate Policy: Apple demonstrates positive top-line messaging on climate policy. In June 2024, Apple published its Framework Proposal for Science-aligned Corporate Climate Action, which clearly outlines the company’s support for global emissions reductions in line with limiting global temperature rise to 1.5°C. In its 2025 Environmental Progress Report, released April 2025, the company states support for a wide range of government actions to respond to climate change, and emphasizes the need for global targets that align with the Paris Agreement.
Engagement with Climate-Related Regulations: Apple engages with broadly positive positions across a range of climate policy strands, but appears most active on policies related to renewable energy. Apple participated in a September 2023 joint letter with the Global Renewables Alliance that called on leaders at COP28 to set an ambitious global target to triple renewable energy capacity by 2030. In its 2023 CDP Response, the company highlighted its advocacy in Japan and Vietnam, where it supported policies to incentivize renewable energy procurement.
Apple also appears supportive of policies to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. In August 2023 comments to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the company stated clear support for the Agency’s proposed Rules for Power Plants under Clean Air Act Section 111, calling the Rules “an important regulatory action to advance broad scale decarbonization to the benefit of all sectors of the American economy.”
Positioning on Energy Transition: Apple appears supportive of a global energy transition and widespread decarbonization of the economy. The company outlines various principles that guide its advocacy on energy in its 2025 Environmental Progress Report, clearly supporting “a move away from electricity sources emitting more pollution, such as fossil fuels.” In its August 2023 comments on EPA’s proposed Power Plant Rules, Apple advocated for rigorous hydrogen production standards to maximize the decarbonization potential of the regulations, including by calling for the use of carbon capture and storage (CCS) for hydrogen that is produced by fossil methane gas (blue hydrogen). Apple engaged directly with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) in support of permitting reform to increase renewable capacity on the grid, as reported in its 2023 CDP Response.
Apple has also engaged on energy policy at the state level in appealing to regulators to push utilities to decarbonize. For example, in December 2022, Apple joined several other companies in a comment to regulators in North Carolina advocating to raise the ambition of Duke Energy's carbon plan.
Industry Association Governance: Apple is not fully transparent regarding its indirect engagement with climate policy. The company has published a list of its trade association memberships on its website, but the list does not appear to have been updated since 2023, and is mostly limited to US-based organizations. Apple did not disclose its industry association memberships in its 2024 CDP Response. Previously, the company offered some detail of its industry associations’ climate policy positions in its 2023 CDP Response, particularly around the Business Roundtable, although it does not specifically disclose that CEO Tim Cook serves on the Board of Directors for the group, which has advocated with a mix of positive and negative positions on climate policy.
InfluenceMap collects and assesses evidence of corporate climate policy engagement on a weekly basis, depending on the availability of information from each specific data source (for more information see our methodology). While this analysis flows through to the company’s scores each week, the summary above is updated periodically. This summary was last updated in Q2 2025.