Smart watches convicted Apple in deception

American smart watches filed a lawsuit against Apple, accusing their products of deception regarding the carbon neutrality of their products. The Verge edition paid attention to this.

The lawsuit filed in the California Federal Court says that Apple deceived the owners of Apple Watch, saying that her watch is “carbon-neutral”. In the fall of 2023, the IT giant said that the Apple Watch 9, Ultra 2 and SE were the first devices of the company with the zero level of carbon emissions.

The plaintiffs who convicted the American company note that the corporation could not provide zero output of carbon dioxide in the production of smart watches. Instead, Apple acquired quotas from companies whose production practically does not harm nature – the so -called “carbon loans” (Carbon Credits) buy many enterprises to be considered more environmentally friendly. Lawyers said that Apple bought quotas from Chyulu Hills projects in Kenya and Guinan in China, but they allegedly cannot be considered environmentally friendly due to fraud.

The materials say that the Chyulu Hills project received “carbon loans”, “preventing” the cutting of forests on the lands that were already protected by the 1983 law. Guinan said that the trees were planted on the “barren ground”, although the forest at this place was planted long before the start of the project. Thus, the companies did not have the right to receive quotas.

Apple denies all charges. “We are proud of our products with the zero level of carbon emissions,” the representative of the corporation Sean Redding said in an email in an electronic letter.

At the end of February, Sberman Gref, the head of Sberbet, thanked Apple’s leadership for the decision to leave the Russian market. Gref said that against the backdrop of restrictions, Sberban managed to successfully launch the “Payment of Payment” function.