Introduction Empowering individuals Working together Operating sustainably Governance and engagement Appendix 2023 Environmental Repo爀琀 Our ambition The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel operate our data centers and o昀케ce campuses on 24/7 on Climate Change is unequivocal: climate carbon-free energy on every grid where we operate by change is an urgent threat to human 2030 (24/7 CFE). We’ve been working hard to transition our operations and the electricity grids that serve us to cleaner well-being and the health of the planet. 66 sources of power, through a combination of clean energy While the last several years have seen procurement, technology innovation, and policy advocacy. signi昀椀cant progress in mobilizing the global And we expect our work to decarbonize electricity grids community to take more ambitious climate where we operate to contribute to decarbonization across action, the world isn’t on track to meet the our value chain as well. targets established by the Paris Agreement Cha爀琀ing our path  67 to limit temperature rise to 1.5°C. Our ambition Achieving net-zero emissions and 24/7 CFE by 2030 are At Google, we’re working to accelerate the transition to a extremely ambitious goals—what we call “moonshots.” carbon-free future. We know that our responsibility begins We also know that our path to net-zero emissions won’t Net-zero Our approach with our own carbon footprint, which is why we’ve taken be easy or linear; it may require us to navigate signi昀椀cant signi昀椀cant steps over the past two decades to minimize our unce爀琀ainty and deploy new systems and technologies own emissions. In 2021, we set our most ambitious goal yet: across our business. Some of our plans will take years to Measuring our carbon to achieve net-zero emissions across all of our operations carbon deliver their full results, pa爀琀icularly where they involve and value chain by 2030. To accomplish this, we aim to footprint building new large-scale infrastructure with long lead reduce 50% of our combined Scope 1, Scope 2 (market- times. So as our business continues to evolve, we expect based), and Scope 3 absolute emissions (versus our 2019 our emissions to rise before dropping towards our Reducing carbon emissions baseline) before 2030, and plan to invest in nature-based and We aim to achieve net-zero absolute emissions reduction target. technology-based carbon removal solutions to neutralize emissions across all of our our remaining emissions. We’ve formally commi琀琀ed to Advancing carbon-free energy the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) to seek their In our third decade of climate action, we recognize that we can’t achieve our goals alone. Transitioning to a carbon- operations and value chain validation of our absolute emissions reduction target. free future will require stronger government policies and Managing residual emissions pa爀琀nerships with many other organizations, as well as by 2030 One of the key levers for reducing emissions from our new technologies and structural changes to the broader operations is transitioning to clean energy. Energy use The journey ahead systems that serve our operations and value chain, contributes to a signi昀椀cant share of our carbon footprint such as electricity grids and hardware supply chains. due to the electricity needs of our operations—in pa爀琀icular, our data centers. That’s why, in 2020, we set a goal to 33