If you’re considering the environmental impact of hosting an event, you might focus on logistics like energy efficiency, the food you serve, or the event materials distributed to attendees. While focusing on these types of areas can help soften the event’s environmental footprint and greenhouse gas emissions, it’s hard to build a truly sustainable event based on operational choices alone.

The problem is that events, especially large ones like conferences or major sporting events, tend to involve decisions outside your control, like how attendees travel to your event and how they consume resources at the event venue. These factors can create a significant negative impact, even when sustainability measures are in place.

Carbon emissions from people flying in to attend, one of the largest contributors to event related greenhouse gasses, can easily overshadow the emissions you avoid by reusing name badge lanyards from previous events, for example. And you might put out compost bins next to landfill and recycling containers, but at a busy, crowded event, an attendee might haphazardly throw whatever trash they have on hand into whatever bin they first see.

That’s not to say you shouldn’t try to focus on logistics, as sustainability isn’t all or nothing. Every step helps. And you may be able to make meaningful progress toward sustainability goals, based on choices like venue location, reducing reliance on traditional power plants, and improving energy savings through more efficient or renewable energy sources, such as swapping diesel generators for solar ones.

But if you really want to make your event net zero or at least get closer to minimizing environmental impacts, buying high quality carbon credits and other environmental credits, like renewable energy certificates, is often critical.

Doing so isn’t a shortcut to event sustainability. Instead, carbon credits can help you account for the areas outside your control, like travel emissions, as well as taking responsibility for the emissions impact of all the little details that you cannot reduce or avoid. Many carbon credit projects work to store carbon or support initiatives where emissions are actively reduced or carbon removed from the atmosphere, often at a large scale.

To ensure credibility, it’s important that carbon credits follow strict verification standards aligned with global frameworks like those supported by the United Nations. This helps prevent issues like double counting, where the same emissions reduction is claimed more than once.

Terrapass makes it easy to buy carbon credits for both individuals and businesses. You can buy credits that align with emissions from specific events like weddings, those that help address the impact of flying, or other personal or corporate packages based on your emissions goals.

Case Study: The Olympics

The Olympics haven’t always had the best environmental reputation, such as with the legacy of host cities spinning up massive new sporting facilities that soon become abandoned. Recent Olympic Games, however, have made environmental sustainability and social responsibility more of a focal point.

For example, the Paris 2024 Games included significant sustainability efforts, such as with 95 percent of the venues being temporary or from preexisting infrastructure. Event organizers also added grid connections so that nearly all energy consumption came from renewable sources, reducing dependence on fossil fuel-based power plants and increasing overall energy savings, instead of relying as much on sources like diesel generators.

Yet despite reducing emissions by more than half compared to the preceding Rio and London summer Olympics, the Paris Games still had a carbon footprint of 1.59 million tCO2e, which was more than Netflix’s total Scope 1 to 3 emissions that year, for comparison. Nearly half of those emissions came from spectators traveling to the Games, indicating how hard it is to cut your way to zero while still maintaining the power of live events.

So, Paris 2024 spent €12.1 million on carbon sequestration and avoidance credits that matched the 1.59 million tCO2e residual emissions total. This included financing projects such as cooking systems in several African countries, solar projects in Senegal and Vietnam, deforestation protection in Guatemala and Kenya, and mangrove restoration in Senegal. These types of initiatives help store carbon and contribute to carbon removed from the atmosphere on a large scale. The Organising Committee also financed some forestry projects within France to more directly compensate for emissions within its control.

Another type of credit usage showed up recently during the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympics. Their commitment to using virtually all clean electricity during the Games was made possible in part by Italian electricity company Enel procuring Guarantees of Origin, essentially a European version of renewable energy certificates, that correspond with renewable energy, as PBS reported.

And for the upcoming LA 2028 Olympics, the host has established an internal carbon price as a way to incentivize efficiencies while also generating funds for the LA28 Resilience Champions Fund. This will finance local improvements rather than international carbon offsets. For example, the fund will focus on areas including cooling solutions like native tree planting, wildfire resilience such as by planting fire resilient native plants, and ocean protection such as through beach cleanups.

Going forward, carbon credits could become even more important to Olympic events, considering that in 2020, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) set a requirement that, starting in 2030, all host cities would need to go even further by making the Games climate positive. Granted, that has arguably since been softened, such as with Brisbane 2032’s contract being adjusted to make being climate positive more of a goal than a necessity.

Still, carbon credits and similar financing mechanisms will likely continue to provide ways for host cities to address unavoidable emissions, such as those associated with flying, while reducing their overall negative impact. In addition to addressing emissions, carbon credits also typically provide co benefits that support health and other positive outcomes in local communities.

Terrapass offers carbon credits across a broad range of project types, such as reforestation and landfill gas capture. You can support a mix of projects and their associated benefits with a monthly subscription of carbon credits for just $8.50 per employee that offsets what many businesses emit during normal operations, or you could build a carbon credit portfolio that aligns more with specific events if you’re hosting.

Using Carbon Offsets for Your Own Events

While you’re probably not hosting an Olympic sized event, similar strategies can be scaled to all sorts of other sustainable event planning, ranging from conferences to parties.

To fully balance emissions, an event organizer would ideally calculate total emissions. Depending on the scale of your event, this might require working with a third-party sustainability consultant that can assist with carbon accounting, or you might be able to use online carbon footprint calculators.

Even if you can’t map out all of your emissions, you might calculate some of the largest sources, like flight emissions. A virtual event might avoid a big chunk of these travel emissions, but that might run counter to your goals of facilitating in person bonding that’s hard to replicate online. So, if you’re hosting a company retreat in another city, for example, you could add up the flight miles among your employees and calculate the associated emissions.

While this doesn’t account for everything, such as on-site emissions like hotel energy usage and food, it can give you a good starting point. By at least purchasing flight carbon offsets, organizers can take responsibility for what is typically one of the largest emissions components of any large event, particularly those tied to greenhouse gasses. Meanwhile, you can make operational choices for your corporate event, like choosing a sustainable venue, reducing reliance on fossil fuel-based power plants, and improving energy savings through efficient practices.

You also may be able to buy carbon credits that align with the approximate emissions from specific types of events. For example, Terrapass sells carbon offsets for weddings, which you can scale according to how many guests you have and whether you also want to account for honeymoon emissions and the impact on water systems.

Whether you’re hosting a personal event or a large corporate one, Terrapass offers a mix of ready to buy carbon offset packages, or our team of sustainability experts can help you develop a custom carbon offset plan as you aim to balance your carbon footprint. By supporting verified projects that operate at a large scale, you can address emissions responsibly while contributing to meaningful climate solutions.

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The electric vehicle (EV) revolution is unfolding at full speed. EV sales, battery factories, and electrification plans are all increasing rapidly across the world. But behind this clean‑energy success story lies a growing risk that few people fully grasp: the supply of high‑purity nickel — known as Class 1 nickel — is under increasing strain.

While overall nickel output appears large, the specific kind of nickel that powers EV batteries is far harder to secure. Add in rising geopolitical tensions and energy price shocks, and the result is a supply chain that is both fragile and critical.

Nickel’s Role in the EV Revolution

Nickel is a key ingredient in the lithium‑ion batteries that power most long‑range electric vehicles. Modern battery chemistries like NMC (Nickel‑Manganese‑Cobalt) and NCA (Nickel‑Cobalt‑Aluminum) use large amounts of nickel because it improves energy density, which helps EVs travel farther on a single charge.

• As a result, demand for nickel from EV batteries is soaring. IRENA data suggested that global demand for nickel used in EV batteries could reach more than 1.09 million tonnes by 2030 under current trends, depending on battery technology and adoption rates.

As per analysts and industry pundits, as EV markets grow across the U.S., Europe, China, and other regions, this nickel demand is only expected to rise further. What makes this particularly challenging is that EV battery producers only accept Class 1 nickel — nickel that is at least 99.8% pure and suitable for conversion into nickel sulfate, which is essential for battery cathodes.

Why Class 1 Nickel Is Scarce

On the surface, the global nickel supply seems large. Countries like Indonesia have rapidly increased production, and numerous mines operate in Asia, Russia, and Latin America. But most of this nickel is Class 2, a lower‑purity type used mainly in stainless steel production, which cannot easily or cheaply be turned into battery‑grade material.

This means the world may have enough nickel in total, but the kind that matters most to the EV industry is limited. This structural imbalance between total output and battery‑grade supply is now one of the EV sector’s biggest supply challenges.

According to McKinsey, Class 1 supply growth is lagging demand growth. Some analysts project that even by 2025, primary Class 1 capacity may only supply around 1.2 million tonnes, compared with demand closer to 1.5 million tonnes, indicating a shortfall right when EV adoption accelerates.

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Global Conflict Adds Supply Risk

Geopolitics is also heightening uncertainty. Russia, historically one of the largest producers of high‑grade nickel, saw its exports disrupted after the Ukraine war began. Sanctions and shifting trade relationships have forced automakers and battery makers to look for alternatives.

Meanwhile, an analysis from S&P Global explained how instability in the Middle East may not directly affect nickel mining, but it does influence everything from energy costs to shipping routes. Critical passages like the Strait of Hormuz handle significant volumes of global oil and gas. Any disruption there can increase fuel prices, which raises costs throughout the mining, refining, and logistics chain.

Since nickel production and refining are energy‑intensive, rising energy costs feed directly into higher production costs. In this way, even conflict far from nickel mines can tighten the Class 1 supply chain.

Processing Bottlenecks Drive Hidden Risk

Another often overlooked factor is processing. Much of the world’s nickel comes from lateritic ores, especially in Indonesia and the Philippines. To turn these ores into battery‑ready nickel sulfate requires a complex High‑Pressure Acid Leach (HPAL) process that depends heavily on sulfuric acid and stable energy inputs.

Disruptions to sulfur supply — linked closely to global energy markets — can slow down or increase the cost of HPAL operations. Analysts have highlighted that future price swings in battery‑grade nickel could be driven not just by ore availability but by these processing input risks tied to sulfur and acid supply.

So even if mines produce enough nickel ore, the ability to convert it into usable battery material can become the real bottleneck.

A Two‑Tier Nickel Market

As a result of these pressures, the nickel world is dividing into a clear two‑tier market:

• A surplus of lower‑grade Class 2 nickel
• A shortage of high‑purity Class 1 nickel demanded by EV makers

This gap is expected to grow as EV battery demand rises more sharply than Class 1 production capacity. Data from IEA shows that demand for nickel in cleantech applications, mainly EVs, could more than double from around 560 kilotonnes in the early 2020s to over 1,349 kilotonnes by 2030.

Yet most new refining capacity is focused on processing laterite ores, and planned Class 1 expansions are relatively limited. This makes high‑purity nickel increasingly strategic.

Tight Battery Nickel Amid Shifting Market Trends

The same S&P report has emphasized this imbalance as a core structural challenge in the nickel market. While overall nickel supply may at times appear ample, the availability of battery‑grade nickel remains tight and vulnerable to both demand shifts and supply disruptions.

Furthermore, tracking the broader nickel market trends showed that industrial demand dynamics and tariff uncertainty have at times weighed on prices, even as battery‑grade demand continues to grow.

This mixed picture of soft prices amid growing strategic demand underscores how complicated the nickel supply story has become.

The Rising Value of Sulphide Nickel in North America

Not all nickel sources are equal. Sulphide nickel deposits — found in places like parts of Canada, Australia, and Alaska — are much easier to process into high‑purity Class 1 material than laterites. They also tend to have lower emissions and simpler refining paths.

Not all nickel sources are equal. Sulphide nickel deposits found in places like parts of Canada, Australia, and Alaska are much easier to process into high‑purity Class 1 material than laterites. They also tend to have lower emissions and simpler refining paths.

However, sulphide deposits are rare compared with laterite ores. Most of the easy‑to‑develop sulphide assets have already been mined. Discoveries are limited, making existing and new sulphide projects more strategically valuable.

This is why automakers and governments in Western countries are placing greater attention on domestic and North American projects as they seek to reduce reliance on geopolitically sensitive supply chains.

Alaska Energy Metals’ Nikolai Project and Cleaner Supply Chains

A high‑profile case is the Nikolai project in Alaska, developed by Alaska Energy Metals Corporation or AEMC. It contains not just nickel but also copper, cobalt, and platinum group metals — all important for EV batteries and broader clean energy technologies.

Projects like this offer several key advantages:

• Cleaner processing pathways
• Simpler conversion to battery‑grade nickel
• Stronger environmental, social, and governance (ESG) transparency

As of March 10, 2025, the nickel junior shows a major increase in contained metals. The resource estimate also confirms the presence of a treasure trove of energy transition metals: copper, cobalt, platinum, and palladium.

• The Indicated category now includes 5.6 billion pounds of nickel and 1.77 billion pounds of copper, and along with the value of the other metals equal to 11.03 billion pounds of nickel equivalent metal. This marks a 46% increase from the previous estimate.
• The Inferred category holds 9.38 billion pounds of nickel and 2.43 billion pounds of copper, and along with the value of the other metals equal to 17.98 billion pounds of nickel equivalent metal. This represents a sharp 122% increase, highlighting the scale of new resource growth.

As automakers push to decarbonize their supply chains, these attributes are becoming more valuable, not just economically but also in regulatory and brand terms.

Friendshoring and Supply Security

The concept of “friendshoring” — sourcing critical materials from politically stable and allied regions — is gaining traction. Governments in the U.S., Europe, and elsewhere are funding and incentivizing projects that can produce strategic minerals like nickel in safer jurisdictions.

This shift aligns with national security goals as well as corporate sustainability targets. Securing battery metals in friendly regions helps reduce exposure to conflicts and sanctions while supporting long‑term industrial planning.

Outlook: Quality Over Quantity

In the early days of the EV transition, the focus was simply on increasing battery production. Today, the conversation has shifted. It is no longer enough for the world to produce more nickel — it must produce the right kind of nickel.

High‑purity, battery‑grade nickel is becoming one of the most strategic materials in the energy transition. Its supply chain is deeply influenced by geopolitics, processing challenges, and shifting industrial priorities.

Conflicts like the Russia‑Ukraine war, energy price shocks, and sulfur supply vulnerabilities have all shown how fragile the nickel ecosystem can be. At the same time, demand projections through 2030 make it clear that EV adoption will continue pushing nickel demand higher.

• FURTHER READING: Nickel Demand for EVs Could Flip the 2030 Market Balance • Carbon Credits

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Apple’s latest Environmental Progress Report shows a clear shift in how the company is approaching sustainability. It shows that 30 percent of materials across all products shipped in 2025 came from recycled content, up from the previous year. This represents a steady year-on-year increase of around 6% points, showing consistent progress rather than one-time gains.

The company now uses 100% recycled cobalt in all its batteries. It also uses 100% recycled rare earth elements in all magnets. All of these show how circular manufacturing is becoming a core part of the way Apple designs, builds, and scales its products.

The shift reflects a broader strategy. The tech giant is working to reduce reliance on virgin mining and move toward a more circular supply chain. This is central to its long-term goal of reaching carbon neutrality across its entire value chain by 2030.

Recycled Materials Move Into Core Product Architecture

The most important change is not just how much recycled material Apple uses, but where it is being used. In its newest product line, including the MacBook Neo, Apple has significantly increased recycled content in critical components. According to the company’s 2026 Environmental Progress Report:

• Around 90% of the aluminum in the MacBook Neo enclosure is recycled
• 100% of cobalt in Apple-designed batteries is recycled
• The device overall reaches around 60% recycled content across key materials

These figures matter because aluminum and cobalt are among the most carbon-intensive materials in electronics manufacturing. Primary aluminum production uses a lot of energy. Cobalt extraction causes high emissions and comes with supply chain risks.

By shifting toward recycled inputs, Apple reduces emissions at the earliest stage of production. And that’s before devices are even assembled. This approach is part of a broader design philosophy.

The iPhone maker is increasingly engineering products around material recovery, not just performance or cost. That shift is central to its decarbonization strategy.

Emissions Avoidance Becomes a Key Climate Lever

Apple’s report highlights a clear link between recycled materials and emissions reduction.

In 2024, the company says that its use of recycled and lower-carbon materials helped avoid 6.2 million metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions. Over the same period, Apple’s total carbon footprint was 15.1 million metric tons. This means that material strategy alone accounted for a meaningful portion of the emissions reduction impact.

The logic is straightforward. When recycled materials replace virgin mining and refining, emissions fall sharply. This is especially important for metals like aluminum, copper, and cobalt, which carry high embedded carbon.

Apple is effectively shifting emissions reductions upstream — reducing impact before manufacturing even begins.

Meet Daisy, Dave & Cora: The Robots Powering Apple’s Recycling Revolution

A key part of Apple’s system is automation in recycling. The company has developed a set of specialized robotics platforms designed to recover materials from used devices at scale.

The first system, Daisy, can disassemble up to 36 different iPhone models and process as many as 1.2 million devices per year. Engineers designed it to efficiently recover high-value components that traditional recycling systems often miss.

Another system, Dave, focuses on dismantling the taptic engine, a component rich in rare earth magnets, tungsten, and steel. These materials are critical for electronics production but difficult to recover without precision engineering.

The newest system, Cora, expands Apple’s recycling capability further. It uses smart shredding and sensor sorting to boost recovery rates for more types of materials.

Together, these systems form a structured recovery pipeline. Devices returned through Apple’s trade-in and recycling programs are not simply dismantled. They are processed with the goal of reintroducing materials back into future product cycles.

This is a key shift. Instead of linear production — mine, build, dispose — Apple is moving toward closed-loop manufacturing.

Why Materials Are Now the Heart of Apple’s Net-Zero Plan

Apple’s recycled materials strategy is directly tied to its climate target.

The company aims to be carbon neutral by 2030. This commitment includes its business, supply chain, and product lifecycle. It also includes not just its own operations but also supplier emissions and product use emissions.

Within this framework, materials and manufacturing are the largest drivers of Apple’s emissions. The company’s lifecycle analysis reveals that most of its carbon footprint comes from product manufacturing. This mainly happens in Scope 3 supply chain activities like raw material extraction, component production, and assembly.

Apple also sees materials, electricity, and transportation as the top three sources of product emissions. Materials are key because metals like aluminum, cobalt, and rare earth elements have high carbon intensity.

This is why recycled content is central to Apple’s decarbonization roadmap. It reduces emissions in Scope 3 categories, which are typically the hardest to control.

Apple has also pushed suppliers to adopt renewable energy and lower-carbon production methods, particularly in high-impact manufacturing regions. This creates two ways to reduce emissions: cleaner energy and cleaner inputs. 

• MUST READ: Apple Doubles Down on Carbon Removal with Solar and Forest Projects Across Oceania

Emissions Profile Shows Progress, But Not a Straight Line

Apple’s emissions profile reflects both progress and complexity. The company’s total footprint is in the tens of millions of metric tons each year, reflecting the scale of its global operations. 

In 2025, the company reported a total net carbon footprint of 14.5 million metric tons of CO₂e, down from 15.3 million metric tons of gross emissions before offsets.

Product manufacturing is still the main source of emissions, accounting for the largest share of emissions within Scope 3. In fact, manufacturing alone contributed about 8.15 million metric tons of CO₂e, or more than half of total product lifecycle emissions.

However, Apple reports gradual reductions in emissions intensity per product over time. Emissions have dropped by over 60% since 2015, while revenue has risen sharply during this time.

This means each device is now easier to make with less carbon. Total emissions can still change based on product cycles and demand.

The increasing use of recycled materials is a key driver of this improvement. It reduces the need for mining, refining, and high-energy processing — all of which sit upstream in the supply chain.

However, Apple’s emissions trajectory is not linear. Like many hardware companies, its reach depends on global demand, new product launches, and supply chain limits. This makes structural changes like material redesign more important than incremental operational gains.

Apple’s Carbon Credit Portfolio

Moreover, Apple uses carbon credits in a targeted way to address a small portion of its remaining emissions as it works toward its 2030 net-zero goal. The 2026 Environmental Progress Report states that the company retired verified credits from nature-based projects in 2025.

The portfolio includes the Lumin/Eucapine reforestation project in Uruguay, which accounted for 422,395 metric tons CO₂e (vintage 2020). It also includes the Windrock Improved Forest Management project in the United States, covering 319,785 metric tons CO₂e (vintage 2022).

These projects focus on restoring degraded land, improving forest management, and increasing long-term carbon sequestration. Apple sees carbon credits as a complement, not as substitutes, to its main decarbonization strategy.

This strategy focuses on reducing emissions first. It emphasizes using recycled materials, renewable energy, and improving the supply chain. Only after these efforts does Apple use high-quality credits to tackle leftover emissions.

The Real Shift: Apple Is Redesigning How Electronics Are Made

Apple’s recent report shows a clear direction for tackling its environmental footprint. The company is no longer treating sustainability as an external offset mechanism. Instead, it is embedding it directly into product architecture.

The increase to 30% recycled materials in products shows a big change in how the tech giant makes things. Key parts, like cobalt and aluminum, are almost entirely made from recycled content. Robotics-driven recycling systems reinforce this direction, creating a closed-loop system where old devices feed directly into new production.

At the same time, Apple’s emissions profile shows both progress and constraint. Reductions are real, but scaling global hardware production means absolute emissions remain significant.

Still, the direction is clear. Apple is moving away from linear electronics manufacturing and toward a circular model where materials are continuously recovered, reused, and reintroduced into production.

In doing so, it is reshaping what sustainability looks like in the global tech industry — not as an add-on, but as a design principle built into the product itself.

• READ MORE: Apple Beats ‘Carbon Neutral’ Lawsuit, But Greenwashing Scrutiny Is Heating Up

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