Maven Environmental Challenge
Visualize Apple's progress towards achieving the goal of becoming carbon neutral by 2030.
Sep 21, 2023
Start date
Oct 22, 2023
Deadline
Annual Membership + Winner T-Shirt
Grand Prize
Live Finalist Voting Video
Challenge Objective
In 2020, after announcing their corporate operations were officially carbon neutral, Apple pledged to make their products carbon neutral by 2030. To achieve this goal, they set their emissions for 2015 (38.4 million metric tons CO2e) as the baseline and will aim to reduce them by 75% by 2030. The remaining 25% of gross emissions (9.6 million metric tons CO2e) will be removed using carbon offsets, bringing the net emissions to 0.
For the Maven Environmental Challenge, you'll be working as an independent journalist and data viz enthusiast. Your task is to use the data provided by Apple in their Environmental Progress Reports to visualize their progress towards becoming carbon neutral in 2030.
About the Data Set
The dataset contains 3 tables, in CSV format. The "Greenhouse Gas Emissions" table contains the sources of Apple's greenhouse gas emissions from 2015 to 2022 divided by category (corporate & product life cycle), scope (direct scope 1 emissions & indirect scope 2 and 3 emissions), and type (emissions & removals). The "Carbon Footprint by Product" table contains the emissions from the product life cycle of every baseline iPhone model released between 2015-2022. The "Normalizing Factors" table contains Apple's revenue, market cap, and employees during the same period.
Official Terms & Conditions
For this challenge, Maven Analytics will give away up to 3 Annual Pro individual subscriptions (including awards for "First-time Entrant", "Fan Favorite" and "Challenge Winner").
After the 1 year period, subscriptions will renew at full price unless canceled (cancel at any time).
A "First-time entrant" is a Maven Analytics user who has published a project to Showcase assigned to a Maven Challenge for the first time.
To be eligible, you must publish your project and submit your entry prior to the challenge deadline
The "Fan Favorite" winner will be determined based on project likes on the Maven Showcase page exactly 1 week after the challenge deadline, and other finalists and winners will be selected by the Maven Analytics team via live vote, and announced from the Maven Analytics LinkedIn account.
No purchase is necessary to enter.
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