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 Sustainability Impact Matrix The matrix highlights our key sustainability issues, and demonstrate our commitment to responsible categorized by the impact on our stakeholders and business practices. Additional detail on each of the our business and aligned with the three Key Ambitions issues and our actions to address them is provided of our 2025 Sustainability & Social Impact Strategy: throughout the content of the website. Driving Social Impact, Helping Millions of Homes and Preserving Our Environment. These issues also The “materiality” thresholds of the guidelines intersect with the following GRI Standards and define and disclosure frameworks that help inform the the content of this report: Economic Performance, sustainability risks and opportunities disclosed in Materials, Energy, Water, Emissions, Effluents and this sustainability and social impact report may Waste, Products and Services, Compliance, Transport, differ from the concept of “materiality” (as defined T C Environmental Health and Safety, Training and A by the U.S. federal securities laws or the rules and MP Education, Diversity and Equal Opportunity, Local I regulations of the U.S. Securities and Exchange ER Communities, Public Policy and Service Labeling. D Commission (SEC)) that guides our disclosure of L O sustainability matters in our SEC filings, including EH K A Colgate is managing risks and opportunities related in our Annual Report on Form 10-K. Consequently, T S to these issues through the implementation of the use of the term “material” in this report should our 2025 Sustainability & Social Impact Strategy. not be interpreted in the same manner as the use Through our Enterprise Risk Management process, of “material” in our SEC filings, including in Item 1A, we focus on sustainability as a critical risk, “Risk Factors” in our Annual Report on Form 10-K. including the environmental and social impact risk of plastic waste, climate change and water scarcity and access, as well as on deforestation. These BUSINESS IMPACT same issues also provide an opportunity to drive innovation and growth, strengthen brand reputation 2021 SUSTAINABILITY AND SOCIAL IMPACT REPORT PAGE 12