Sustainability For Our For Our Creating Value For the For Our Managing Appendix at MetLife Workforce Customers as an Investor Environment Communities Responsibly PROTECTING OUR COMMUNITY 2030 CLIMATE GOALS Protecting Our Communities $ 10 million INSPIRING EMPLOYEES TO MAKE AN IMPACT in grants committed to environmental Each year, approximately 10,000 employees participate in our employee engagement program to causes by MetLife Foundation promote environmental stewardship, called “Our Green Impact.” The program offers employees on-site and virtual environmental education, as well as volunteer events. In addition to location- based “green teams” that drive initiatives at the office level, every MetLife line of business, function and region has a climate goals champion responsible for helping the enterprise achieve its goals 5 million by 2030. This includes setting objectives for their function, driving action, collecting metrics and sharing progress with their senior leaders and associates regularly. trees planted, prioritizing areas vulnerable to 2021 EcoChallenge Tree planting natural disasters More than 3,100 employees from 40 markets MetLife’s goal to plant 5 million trees by 2030 participated in the 2021 MetLife EcoChallenge, is an effort to reduce carbon emissions in an annual two-week effort to encourage the atmosphere and help reforest areas that 50,000 employees to adopt green habits, tripling have been decimated by natural disasters, participation rates from 2020 and making it including hurricanes, floods and wildfires. stakeholders engaged and the most impactful challenge to date. Our We expect to reach our target through initiatives educated on environmental collective actions resulted in: that include large-scale reforestation programs stewardship annually • Over 147,000 actions completed; in national and state forests, distribution of • Avoiding 35,000 lbs. of CO2; trees to homeowners in communities impacted by disaster and employee volunteer projects • Removing over 10,000 cups, 25,000 plastic in urban areas around the world. We plan to bottles, 12,000 plastic containers and engage all stakeholders in this commitment 15,000 plastic straws from landfills; and educate our employees, customers and community members about the importance • Spending more than 435,000 minutes of trees. MetLife also joined 1t.org, a global exercising; and leadership platform to mobilize, connect and • Spending more than 110,000 minutes learning empower the global reforestation community about environmental issues. to conserve, restore and grow 1 trillion trees by 2030. 2021 SUSTAINABILITY REPORT 60