CONTENTS LETTER FROM NOEL WALLACE LETTER FROM ANN TRACY 2025 SUSTAINABILITY STRATEGY SUSTAINABILITY HIGHLIGHTS SUSTAINABILITY MANAGEMENT SUSTAINABILITY GOVERNANCE DRIVING SOCIAL IMPACT HELPING MILLIONS OF HOMES PRESERVING OUR ENVIRONMENT Environment, Health and Safety Colgate’s value of Caring is aligned with our EHS Guiding Principles to ensure that we protect the health and safety of all our employees and any individuals who access our sites, minimize our impact on the environment, strive to consider sustainable product solutions and minimize global impacts in all operations. Colgate People around the world are committed to maintaining healthy and safe working conditions in our facilities and to keeping our business operations environmentally sound. In 2020, we modified our Health Incident Management Plan (HIMP) to address COVID-19 and establish measures to protect our workforce, visitors, contractors and temporary employees. These measures may include temperature/symptom screening at entrances, social distancing and masks, handwashing, respiratory hygiene and cleaning and disinfection. We have modified and will continue to modify preventive measures in certain circumstances based on direction from health ministries, external experts and prevailing COVID-19 case statistics and rates. Our Executive Crisis Management Team (ECMT), which provides global direction and guidance to our division and site leaders, and our People Relations sub-team have worked together to ensure the protection of our people, operations and business throughout the pandemic. The People Relations team addresses issues including employee communication, training, technical management of COVID-19 employee cases, coordination of functional responsibilities related to COVID-19 and space and site management. These teams are still actively managing pandemic-related issues, maintaining focus on risk reduction, leadership at all levels and culture and engagement. In 2021, we created a team focused on assessing global vaccine access. The team worked with external providers and health ministries to support vaccine access for our employees. We continue to maintain a robust EHS Management System and EHS Global Sta ndards. The EHS Management System contains key provisions for our requirements including self-assessments and inspection, management of change, training, documentation and EHS leadership expectations. We annually evaluate our EHS Management System with a third-party vendor to ensure it is the equivalent of benchmark consensus standards, such as ISO 45001:2018 or ISO 14001:2015. Sites are required to develop appropriate programs to comply with Company standards and applicable regulatory requirements. We maintain an EHS Audit Program that is executed by our employees and a third-party provider. During 2021, we continued with the virtual audit process we began in 2020. Our operations are evaluated annually to ensure occupational health exposures are well-controlled. Any identified exposures are managed using the hierarchy of controls. Closure of previously identified exposures is verified by a global third- party industrial hygiene provider and tracked in a global data system. PAGE 28 2021 SUSTAINABILITY AND SOCIAL IMPACT REPORT