CONTENTS LETTER FROM LETTER FROM SUSTAINABILITY 2025 SUSTAINABILITY SUSTAINABILITY DRIVING SOCIAL HELPING PRESERVING NOEL WALLACE ANN TRACY HIGHLIGHTS SUSTAINABILITY MANAGEMENT GOVERNANCE IMPACT MILLIONS OF OUR STRATEGY HOMES ENVIRONMENT Governance Partnering for Climate Leadership Colgate’s CSO chairs our Sustainability Steering Committee, which makes strategic decisions related We understand that addressing climate change cannot be done by a single entity and will require to sustainability, monitors climate-related issues and works to integrate our sustainability strategy, collaborative action across the board. This makes our engagement and collaboration with external including climate change, into our broader organization and meet our sustainability targets and partners an important element of our sustainability strategy, and through these partnerships we KPIs. For more information regarding how sustainability is governed from a Board and management can complement our strong internal capabilities to create a healthier planet. perspective, please see Sustainability Governance. We are working with partners and organizations to accelerate action on climate change, eliminate waste, lead Transparency and Disclosures with zero waste facilities and drive sustainable sourcing. Colgate is proud to contribute to and learn from the collective intelligence of our partners in sustainability: These include: Transparency is important to us and to our stakeholders, as it provides accountability and trust. In this report, we provide climate-related information relevant to a broad range of stakeholders. • USEPA Green Power Partnership • Dow Jones Sustainability Indices As discussed above, Colgate formed an ESG Reporting Task Force in 2021 to address our • World Resources Institute • UN Global Compact stakeholders’ increasing demands for additional ESG and climate-related disclosure. • USEPA ENERGY STAR Award 2021: Partner of • U.S. Green Building Council More information is available on our climate governance, strategy, risk management, metrics and the Year, Sustained Excellence • CDP targets in our CDP surveys, TCFD report, SASB report and our KPI table. • The Consumer Goods Forum In 2021, Colgate continued to work with Walmart’s Project Gigaton to support their goal to work with their suppliers to reduce one billion metric tons of GHG emissions from the global value chain by 2030. Through Project Gigaton, Colgate has committed to GHG goals in six areas: emissions, energy, waste, deforestation, packaging and product use. Colgate reports against these goals annually and has been recognized by Walmart as a “Giga-Guru supplier.” ll of these organizations are helping Colgate to accelerate climate action on a global scale. A 2021 SUSTAINABILITY AND SOCIAL IMPACT REPORT PAGE 69
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