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 Every day, billions of people turn to Google taken a 昀椀rst-principles approach, looking at what’s suggestions in the Shopping tab can help narrow their to ask questions, discover something new, contributing the most to global emissions. Home energy search to cost-e昀昀ective and e昀케cient options. or learn about what’s impo爀琀ant to them. and transpo爀琀ation are two such areas—collectively  6 More people are interested in how to live they account for more than 20% of emissions. They’re Transpo爀琀ation relies more heavily on fossil fuels than any  7 also sectors where people are actively searching for other sector. This is why, for people in most high-income more sustainably than ever, and our aim is sustainable alternatives that o昀琀en provide bene昀椀ts like countries, changing travel pa琀琀erns is a high-impact way to make it easier for them to do so. saving them money or time, or improving their health. to reduce their footprint. We’ve added several features Empowering across our products—like eco-friendly routing in Google In 2022, searches for “solar energy,” To that end, we’ve launched a number of products and Maps and the “Less emissions 昀椀lter” on Google Flights—to “electric bicycles,” and “electric cars” reached features to help people make more informed choices allow people to more easily make sustainable travel and individuals  5 all-time highs. about the products they buy and the energy they use. transpo爀琀ation decisions. For example, Nest Renew is helping people prioritize To tackle a problem at the scale of climate change, it cleaner energy usage, and when someone uses Google can be hard to know where to sta爀琀. That’s why we’ve Search in the U.S. to look for furnaces or water heaters, HIGHLIGHTS 1 billion users Our core products helped more than 1 billion users make more sustainable choices in 2022 1.2 million metric tons of estimated carbon emissions reductions enabled by Google Maps eco-friendly routing as of the end of 2022—equivalent to taking approximately 250,000  8 fuel-based cars o昀昀 the road for a year 113 billion kWh of energy cumulatively saved by customers using  9 Nest thermostats from 2011 to 2022 —more than double  10 Po爀琀ugal’s annual electricity consumption and equivalent  11 to preventing an estimated 36 million tCO e emissions 2 99% of itineraries on Google Flights included carbon emissions estimates Eco-friendly routing in Google Maps helps users get to their destinations as quickly as possible while minimizing fuel or ba琀琀ery consumption. 6