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 Board of Directors Our Board of Directors (Board) views sustainability as being critically important to Nominating, Governance and Corporate Responsibility Committee Colgate’s overall business and growth strategy and our Board plays an essential role in Within our Board, the NGCR Committee has from management on sustainability matters, guiding and overseeing that strategy. Our Board was deeply involved in the development responsibility for overseeing our sustainability risks and opportunities, including our actions to of our strategic plan and received detailed briefings throughout the year on critical program, including our 2025 Sustainability & Social preserve the environment and accelerate action on aspects of its implementation. As we work to integrate sustainability into all aspects of Impact Strategy, while the Personnel & Organization climate change. The NGCR Committee is scheduled our business, our Board addresses sustainability in their oversight of the implementation Committee has responsibility for overseeing our to meet quarterly and a sustainability-related of Colgate’s strategic plan, annual budget, capital expenditures, capital structure and workplace and human rights practices, including topic is typically presented and discussed at each innovation plans and is kept abreast about the Company’s sustainability efforts during diversity and inclusion and equal opportunity scheduled meeting. It is management’s intention reviews of our operating divisions and functions, product categories and competitive and initiatives. The NGCR Committee was reconstituted to provide the Board, through the NGCR Committee, marketplace trends. In further recognition of the importance of ESG matters to Colgate’s and renamed in 2020 to heighten the Board’s focus with the highlights of our progress against the continued success, the Personnel & Organization Committee of the Board has determined on sustainability (including climate change), social targets within our 2025 Sustainability & Social to add performance measures to the 2022 annual incentive program tied to Colgate’s responsibility and corporate citizenship matters. Impact Strategy on at least an annual basis. sustainability and diversity, equity and inclusion progress. The NGCR Committee receives regular updates Audit Committee In addition, our Board is kept abreast of sustainability risks through the Audit Committee, which oversees the Company’s enterprise risk management and the implementation of appropriate risk monitoring and management systems. In this capacity, the Audit Committee receives regular updates from members of the Company’s ERM Committee (as discussed in further detail above), which has identified sustainability as a critical risk facing the Company. Please visit Colgate’s Policy Statements for a complete listing of Colgate’s policies. 2021 SUSTAINABILITY AND SOCIAL IMPACT REPORT PAGE 19