Technology leader Apple has unveiled a significant expansion of its environmental commitments in Australia and New Zealand, advancing its ambition to become carbon neutral across its entire operations and product life cycle by 2030.

In Australia, the company has entered a long-term agreement with European Energy to enable the construction of an 80 MW solar project in Lancaster, Victoria.

The facility is expected to start feeding electricity into the National Electricity Market in 2026, contributing toward Apple’s goal of generating more than one million megawatt-hours of clean electricity annually in the country before 2030.

Apple emphasises that this new capacity will help match the electricity used to charge iPhones, Macs and other devices in Australia with 100 per cent clean energy within the next five years.

“By 2030, we want our users to know that all the energy it takes to charge their iPhone or power their Mac is matched with clean electricity,” said Lisa Jackson, Apple’s Vice President of Environment, Policy and Social Initiatives.

In New Zealand, Apple is expanding its Restore Fund—launched in partnership with Climate Asset Management—to back a forest-restoration initiative covering 8,600 hectares across four sites in the Central North Island and one in the South Island.

The project combines working redwood forestry with the conservation of approximately 3,000 hectares of native forest and is managed under Forest Stewardship Council standards.

In Queensland, Australia, Apple also highlighted its ongoing Restore Fund project converting 1,700 hectares of degraded sugar-cane farmland into a macadamia orchard with more than 800,000 trees.

A dedicated 100-hectare restoration zone, developed in partnership with Indigenous conservation organisation W.Y.L.D., will link two national parks and enhance biodiversity.

These dual efforts—expanding renewable supply in Australia and scaling nature-based carbon removal in New Zealand—are central to Apple’s strategy to reduce its global emissions by 75 per cent compared with 2015 levels and then offset remaining emissions through high-quality removal credits.

The company says it has already achieved more than a 60 per cent cut.

Apple’s announcement demonstrates a shift from purchasing existing renewable-energy credits toward actively enabling new clean infrastructure and land-based carbon-removal assets.

In doing so, the company emphasises delivering regional environmental benefit alongside global climate ambition, and aims to support the Australian and New Zealand transitions to cleaner energy systems and ecosystems.

As the Lancaster solar farm and New Zealand forest-conservation sites progress toward implementation, Apple’s initiative may serve as a model for how large technology companies seek to integrate sustainable device usage, renewable-energy sourcing and nature-based solutions within their climate-action frameworks.