CLIMATE TRANSITION Progress Toward Our 2025 Goals 2021 is the 昀椀rst year for reporting progress toward our e昀昀orts. While COVID-19 continued to have an impact on our operations and supply chain during the last year, we remained focused on our commitments. • We increased our e昀昀orts to advance smarter sourcing • We continue to maintain carbon neutrality for Scope choices for the cleaning products used in our o昀케ces 1, Scope 2, and Scope 3 business travel emissions, and and the food o昀昀ered in our cafeterias. Currently, 40% we neutralized these emissions through a combination of of our cleaning products and 21% of our food are carbon removal and avoidance o昀昀set credits. We intend to sustainably sourced. These products are either certi昀椀ed continue working with our investment team to increase our by an approved standard or meet outlined criteria to be sourcing of carbon removal credits each year as we work classi昀椀ed as environmentally preferred. We are continuing toward phasing out carbon avoidance o昀昀sets by 2030. to work with key vendors toward meeting our commitment of 100% green cleaning products and 50% sustainably • Our Scope 1 and 2 emissions increased by 60% from sourced food by 2025. 2020 to 2021 but are 25% lower than our 2017 baseline. This year-over-year change re昀氀ects an increase in activity • We continue to progress our strategy to remove 100% as our people began to return to o昀케ces, and challenges of plastic beverage bottles and disposables from on- in sourcing market-matched renewable energy in certain site cafeterias, micro-markets, and vending machines locations, speci昀椀cally Singapore. We continue to seek globally, as well as reduce the amount of 昀椀rm-provided opportunities for further reductions. o昀케ce supplies that contain plastic by 2025. Over the past year, we have reverted to compostable disposables in our • As of 2021, 74% of our global square footage has been o昀케ces following a temporary hiatus in 2020 due to health LEED certi昀椀ed. All newly certi昀椀ed facilities are LEED concerns and supply chain challenges. Gold or equivalent, with the exception of two LEED Silver certi昀椀ed properties that had leases signed prior to 2021. • With many employees working from home in 2020 and Also, 100% of our facilities continue to be ISO 14001 2021, we achieved a 79% reduction per-capita on our certi昀椀ed, and all our on-site events continue to be 100% internal paper use, far exceeding our 30% reduction ISO 20121 certi昀椀ed. target. We will continue to monitor paper use in o昀케ces as our sta昀昀 fully returns to o昀케ces. • In 2021, the energy and water intensity of our o昀케ces decreased by 36% and 42%, respectively, from a 2017 baseline. As a result, we have already exceeded our energy intensity target of 20% reduction and our water intensity target of 15% reduction by 2025. We will be closely monitoring performance of these metrics as sta昀昀 fully returns to our o昀케ces. • We continue to procure 100% renewable energy for all of our global electricity consumption — and work toward our commitment to have 80% of this from long-term contracts. Sustainability Report 2021 Climate Transition | Driving Sustainability in Our Own Business 44
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