Apple Teams Up With The Conservation Fund On A New Forest Restoration Project In California

Apple and The Conservation Fund are joining forces on a project that will restore and sustainably manage a working redwood forest in California. 

Through this initiative, Apple is investing to support forest restoration and management activities in the Gualala River Forest in Mendocino County, California.

The tech titan is making this investment through its Restore Fund—an initiative that supports the global scaling of nature-based climate solutions. Launched in 2021 together with Goldman Sachs and Conservation International, the Restore Fund has already gone through two significant expansions.

The first expansion was in 2023 with the addition of a new fund managed by Climate Asset Management, and then again this year, when Apple allocated direct investments to support nature-based projects in the US and Latin America. The fund has also garnered financial support from Apple suppliers TSMC and Murata.

Currently, the Restore Fund has a track record of supporting dozens of nature-based carbon removal, regenerative agriculture, and innovative conservation projects in Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, and South America.

In a broader perspective, the fund and the newly announced forestry project form part of Apple’s strategy for becoming carbon neutral across its entire footprint by 2030. 

As part of this strategy, the company is working on reducing its global emissions by 75% in comparison to 2015 levels, and so far, it has successfully done so for 60% of its pollution. 

To balance the remaining emissions, Apple is resorting to carbon dioxide removal projects, prioritizing nature-based solutions like the forestry initiative with The Conservation Fund. 

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Apple’s carbon removal vision is to support projects around the world together with its suppliers, aiming to remove 9.6 million metric tons of atmospheric CO2 on a yearly basis by the end of this decade.

Under the collaborative forestry project in the Gualala River, The Conservation Fund will continue sustainably managing the forest in this area, and Apple will receive the carbon credits generated through these activities over time.

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