The Pesticide-Contaminated Carbon Credits Apple Is Buying in Paraguay (Spanish)

An English summary of this report is below. The original report, published in Spanish in Climate Tracker, follows.

In 2023, Apple announced to the world that its new smartwatch was the company's first carbon-neutral product. This was thanks to a series of offsetting measures the company took, such as purchasing carbon credits in Paraguay.

What Apple didn't say is that the credits it bought come from a eucalyptus monoculture that uses dangerous agrochemicals and puts a small rural school right in front of the plantations at risk.

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Los bonos de carbono contaminado con pesticidas que está comprando Apple en Paraguay

En 2023 Apple le anunció al mundo que su nuevo reloj inteligente era el primer producto carbono neutral de la compañía. Esto fue gracias a una serie de medidas de compensación que tomaron, como la compra de créditos de carbono en Paraguay. Lo que no dijeron es que los créditos que compraron provienen de un monocultivo de eucaliptos que usa agroquímicos peligrosos y que ponen en riesgo a una pequeña escuela rural que está justo en frente de las plantaciones.