Introduction Empowering individuals Working together Operating sustainably Governance and engagement Appendix 2023 Environmental Repo爀琀 Our ambition Our approach Humans are consuming natural resources Our impact on the circular economy cuts across all our and generating waste at alarming rates. core business operations. It includes the data centers we build and operate to power our products, the workplaces We need 1.75 Ea爀琀hs to sustain our current rate of natural resource consumption, but where Googlers come together to create the next breakthrough technology, and the consumer hardware we only have one planet. 105 The circular products that people use every day. Our impact also economy aims to minimize waste and spans the entire value chain, including data centers, maximize reuse of existing materials. workplaces and stores, products, and our suppliers, and we’ve set goals to measure our progress in each area. An impo爀琀ant component of this is Our ambition promoting safer materials for human and environmental health, to maximize their Our circularity principles focus on designing out waste from the sta爀琀, keeping materials in use for as long as reuse potential. The circular economy Our approach possible, and promoting healthy materials—for our data o昀昀ers a tremendous oppo爀琀unity for centers, workplaces, and products (see Figure 21). new business and innovation, capable of Circular Reducing data center waste generating an estimated $4.5 trillion in new economic output by 2030. 106 Building circular workplaces economy The world can’t achieve net-zero carbon emissions and stores without accelerating the circular economy. Roughly 45% of global GHGs come from embodied carbon emissions, generated from creating new goods and infrastructure. 107 Designing more sustainable We aim to maximize the reuse We can reduce up to 10 GT of carbon by 2050 through consumer hardware products circular strategies, such as using recycled materials and  108 of 昀椀nite resources across our low-carbon building approaches. operations, products, and Working with suppliers To suppo爀琀 the transition to a circular economy, we aim to supply chains become a circular Google—maximizing the reuse of 昀椀nite Enabling others resources across our operations, products, and supply chains and enabling others to do the same. The journey ahead 55