Apple CEO Tim Cook delivered the keynote speech at sustainability nonprofit Ceres' 30th Anniversary Gala in New York City on Monday night.
Apple received an award for its sustainability initiatives by Ceres, a nonprofit that promotes sustainable energy.Cook called on fellow business leaders to adopt measures to combat climate change.
Cook went on to hail the company's vice president of Environment, Policy and Social Initiatives Lisa Jackson, who led the Environmental Protection Agency under President Barack Obama and joined Apple in 2013. Cook said that the company runs its entire global operation on renewable energy, and now seeks to bring all of their suppliers onto the clean energy grid.
And now it's our turn to make it all worth something. To bring together the economy we have built, the science we have uncovered, and the humanity we have received — and make the whole more meaningful than the sum of its parts. To leave something worthy of passing on. As tempting as it may be in moments of adversity, we can't afford to turn away from the horizon and focus instead on defending what we've already got.
Before I say anything else on that — and though she couldn't be here with us tonight — I want to recognize a leader who has done more than anyone to focus that attention, Lisa Jackson. And what we have found through these efforts is that we can add great value to our business in the process. When we announced our goal to bring 100% of our suppliers onto the clean energy grid, we didn't do it to show off. We did it because we knew that it would provide a necessary business impulse for some of our largest partners to develop a valuable competency that sets them apart in a changing world. And because it is the right thing to do.
To us, this has never been about setting 5 yard goals that we know we can achieve really easily and without much work, and then taking a big victory lap after we do it. But I have found that something slightly magical happens when you set goals that feel a bit crazy. The effort will take you to places you didn't anticipate, but the results are almost always better than what you thought was possible at the outset.
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