Executive le琀琀ers Our sustainability strategy Targets and progress summary Emerging oppo爀琀unities Awards and recognition Appendix 2023 Environmental Repo爀琀: Executive Summary A le琀琀er from our Chief Sustainability O昀케cer sustainability strategy, which focuses on where we can make the most signi昀椀cant positive impact. Our work In 2022, we signed contracts for is organized around three key pillars: empowering I grew up in Muir Beach, California, and was fo爀琀unate individuals to take action, working together with approximately 2.8 GW of clean energy to spend my childhood exploring its beautiful redwood our pa爀琀ners and customers, and operating our generation capacity—more than in forests and vibrant tidepools with my family. Today, I’m business sustainably. any prior year. raising my daughter in these same special places, but now these delicate ecosystems are threatened, just like many In 2022, we reached our goal to help 1 billion people other pa爀琀s of the world. make more sustainable choices through our products. We achieved this by o昀昀ering sustainability features like Climate change a昀昀ects all aspects of society, from food eco-friendly routing in Google Maps, energy e昀케ciency • We opened our new Bay View campus, which is production and human health to infrastructure and the features in Google Nest thermostats, and carbon all-electric, net water-positive, restores over 17 acres economy. These impacts are interconnected and can have emissions information in Google Flights. Looking ahead, of high-value nature, and incorporates the leading a cascading e昀昀ect on people and the planet. The response our aspiration is to help individuals, cities, and other principles of circular design. calls for systemic, global action to reduce emissions, pa爀琀ners collectively reduce 1 gigaton of their carbon • We signed 20 more renewable energy agreements, improve watershed health, maximize the reuse of 昀椀nite  2 equivalent emissions annually by 2030. bringing our total to more than 80 agreements resources, and protect biodiversity. totaling approximately 10 GW of clean energy A昀琀er two years of condensed repo爀琀ing, we’re sharing a generation capacity—we estimate we’ll spend Since Google was founded, our e昀昀o爀琀s to mitigate climate deeper dive into our approach in one place in our 2023 approximately $10 billion to purchase clean energy change have sta爀琀ed with our own operations, and we’ve Environmental Repo爀琀. In 2022, we continued to make  4 through 2040. worked hard to lead by example with the ultimate goal measurable progress in many key ways, such as: of driving larger systemic change. In our third decade We expect this new era of technological innovation to of climate action, we’ll continue to take a science-based • We enhanced and launched new sustainability open up even greater oppo爀琀unities to accelerate system- approach to our e昀昀o爀琀s, while sharing our own lessons product features, such as eco-friendly routing in level change. It’s a big pa爀琀 of the reason we’re optimistic and progress with others. Maps, which is estimated to have helped prevent about what’s possible in the years ahead. If we move more than 1.2 million metric tons of carbon emissions forward collectively and decisively, there’s no limit to I joined Google eight years ago to lead our sustainability from launch through 2022—equivalent to taking what we can achieve. e昀昀o爀琀s, and have witnessed our sense of urgency and approximately 250,000 fuel-based cars o昀昀 the road ambition 昀椀rsthand. We’re empowering individuals,  3 for a year. Kate E. Brandt governments, businesses, and other organizations to • We expanded the availability of Google Ea爀琀h make decisions that can drive positive action for people Kate E. Brandt Engine—which provides access to reliable, up-to- and our planet. Chief Sustainability O昀케cer date insights on how our planet is changing—to Google include businesses and governments worldwide as an The oppo爀琀unity we have through our products and enterprise-grade service through Google Cloud. pla琀昀orms is re昀氀ected in our updated environmental 4