{"id":993665,"date":"2026-02-19T08:25:55","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T02:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=993665"},"modified":"2026-02-19T08:44:53","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T03:14:53","slug":"apple-drops-esg-links-from-top-executives-pay-packages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/19\/apple-drops-esg-links-from-top-executives-pay-packages\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple drops ESG links from top executives\u2019 pay packages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two years ago, many of America\u2019s largest companies began stripping diversity targets out of executive pay packages. Now, environmental measures\u2014including goals tied to climate emissions\u2014are beginning to face a similar fate. <\/p>\n<p>Apple Inc. quietly dropped a so-called \u201cESG modifier\u201d from its 2025 pay packages for Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook and other top executives, according to a corporate filing last month. The provision, in place since 2021, had allowed Apple\u2019s board to adjust annual bonuses up or down by as much as 10% depending on the company\u2019s performance on a variety of measures, including greenhouse-gas reductions and renewable energy use among suppliers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two years ago, many of America\u2019s largest companies began stripping diversity targets out of executive pay packages. Now, environmental measures\u2014including goals tied to climate emissions\u2014are beginning to face a similar fate. Apple Inc. quietly dropped a so-called \u201cESG modifier\u201d from its 2025 pay packages for Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook and other top executives, according to a corporate filing last month. The provision, in place since 2021, had allowed Apple\u2019s board to adjust annual bonuses up or down by as much as 10% depending on the company\u2019s performance on a variety of measures, including greenhouse-gas reductions and renewable energy use [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-993665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=993665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=993665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=993665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=993665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}