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Sustainability For Our For Our Creating Value For the For Our Managing Appendix at MetLife Workforce Customers as an Investor Environment Communities Responsibly 1 MetLife General Account Investment Portfolio MetLife maintains a well-diversified investment portfolio and applies prudent risk management to secure long-term returns in accordance with MetLife’s ESG Investment Policy. MetLife is building a foundation for a less carbon-intensive and more socially responsible general account portfolio through our investment strategy. MetLife has a commitment to energy transition initiatives that drive environmental sustainability and decarbonization. To harness the power of our influence as a leading insurance and financial services firm, we have set goals to help transition to a zero-carbon economy and more sustainable future. In 2022, MetLife, Inc. made the commitment to take the company’s carbon neutrality commitment a step further by targeting net zero emissions for global operations and its general 2 account investment portfolio by 2050 or sooner. EXCLUSIONARY INVESTMENT SCREENS MetLife has applied exclusionary investment screens for our general account, which have been implemented to avoid investment in companies doing business in certain industries or business lines that are not in alignment with our core values, including: • Manufacturers of automatic and • Tobacco, vaping and e-cigarette manufacturers; semiautomatic assault weapons intended • Mining and/or utility companies deriving for sale to civilian customers; 25% or more of their revenue from thermal • Direct producers of controversial weapons, coal; and including cluster munitions, landmines, and • Companies that hold at least 20% of their oil biological and chemical weapons; reserves in oil sands. 1. FOR A DEFINITION OF GENERAL ACCOUNT, PLEASE SEE EXPLANATORY NOTE ON PAGE 149. 2. THE NET ZERO COMMITMENT APPLIES TO GHG EMISSIONS FROM METLIFE, INC.’S OWNED AND LEASED OFFICES ACROSS THE WORLD, AUTOMOBILE FLEETS, EMPLOYEE BUSINESS TRAVEL AND ASSETS IN METLIFE’S GENERAL ACCOUNT INVESTMENT PORTFOLIO, WHICH INCLUDES THE GENERAL ACCOUNTS OF METLIFE, INC.’S WHOLLY OWNED INSURANCE COMPANY SUBSIDIARIES, WHERE DATA AND METHODOLOGIES ARE AVAILABLE. EMISSIONS ARE TRACKED AND REPORTED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE GREENHOUSE GAS PROTOCOL. READ MORE ABOUT METLIFE’S CLIMATE COMMITMENTS ONLINE. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ABOUT METLIFE’S GENERAL ACCOUNT INVESTMENT PORTFOLIO IS AVAILABLE HERE. 2021 SUSTAINABILITY REPORT 44

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