Aiming to Achieve Net-Zero Emissions

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class="glue-grid__col glue-grid__col--span-4-sm glue-grid__col--span-8-md glue-grid__col--span-8-lg"> <h1 class="initiative-page--heading">Net-zero carbon</h1> </div> <div class="initiative-page-carousel sus-gutter-horizontal"> <div class="glue-grid"> <div class="glue-grid__col glue-grid__col--span-2"></div> <div class="glue-grid__col glue-grid__col--span-8 glue-grid__col--span-12-md glue-page-sm-full-bleed"> <div class="image-wrapper"> <div class="image-wrapper"> <picture> <source media="((min-width: 600px) and (max-width: 1023px))" srcset="https://www.gstatic.com/marketing-cms/assets/images/2f/e6/ce256f8d46cc97681d0303e2fdb7/carousellarge.webp=w750"> <source media="(min-width: 1024px)" srcset="https://www.gstatic.com/marketing-cms/assets/images/2f/e6/ce256f8d46cc97681d0303e2fdb7/carousellarge.webp=w1000"> <img class="image-wrapper--image" src="https://www.gstatic.com/marketing-cms/assets/images/2f/e6/ce256f8d46cc97681d0303e2fdb7/carousellarge.webp=w450" alt="Offshore windmills at sunset"> </picture> </div> <p class="initiative-page-caption">Windmills at the Norther Offshore Wind Farm in Belgium, our first offshore wind PPA</p> <a class="sus-link" href="https://blog.google/outreach-initiatives/sustainability/an-update-on-our-clean-energy-progress-in-2022/" title="Learn more about our clean energy progress" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-ga-event="select_content" data-ga-cta-url="https://blog.google/outreach-initiatives/sustainability/an-update-on-our-clean-energy-progress-in-2022/" data-ga-section-name="net-zero carbon" data-ga-content-type="cta"> Learn more about our clean energy progress </a> </div> </div> </div> </div> <section class="section-gradient"> <div class="subsection-header-content"> <div class="scroll-header"> <div class="subsection"> <div class="subsection-content"> <h2 class="subsection-content-heading"> Aiming to achieve net-zero emissions and 24/7 carbon-free energy </h2> <div class="subsection-content-para glue-spacer-3-top"> <p>At Google, our goal is to achieve net-zero emissions across all of our operations and value chain by 2030. We aim to reduce 50% of our combined Scope 1, 2 (market-based), and 3 absolute emissions (compared to our 2019 base year) by 2030, and plan to invest in nature-based and technology-based carbon removal solutions to neutralize our remaining emissions.</p> <p>Our net-zero goal is supported by an ambitious clean energy goal to operate our offices and data centers on 24/7 carbon-free energy, such as solar and wind.<sup>1</sup></p> <p>In our third decade of climate action, we continue to take a science-based approach to our efforts, while sharing our own lessons and progress with others. We’re working toward this goal in two key ways: first, we’re focused on reducing emissions across our operations and value chain (including advancing 24/7 carbon-free energy), and after reducing our emissions as much as possible, we’re addressing our residual emissions with carbon removals.</p> </div> </div> </div> <h2 class="glue-headline glue-headline--headline-3 scroll-header-text"> Our key efforts </h2> </div> </div> <div class="js-section vertical-gap sust-vertical-gap-bottom"> <div class="section-with-intro" data-sub-section-size="small"> <div class="section-side-bar"> <div class="scroll-header sus-gutter-left"> <h2 class="glue-headline glue-headline--headline-3 scroll-heading"> Our key efforts </h2> </div> <div class="section-links"> <button class="section-link active" data-link="measuring-our-carbon-footprint" data-ga-event="in_page_navigation" data-ga-section-name="our key efforts" data-ga-content-type="in_page_navigation" data-ga-item-id="measuring-our-carbon-footprint"> 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We aim to reduce 50% of our combined Scope 1, 2 (market-based), and 3 absolute emissions (compared to our 2019 base year) by 2030, and plan to invest in nature-based and technology-based carbon removal solutions to neutralize our remaining emissions.</p> <p>Our net-zero goal is supported by an ambitious clean energy goal to operate our offices and data centers on 24/7 carbon-free energy, such as solar and wind.<sup>1</sup></p> <p>In our third decade of climate action, we continue to take a science-based approach to our efforts, while sharing our own lessons and progress with others. We’re working toward this goal in two key ways: first, we’re focused on reducing emissions across our operations and value chain (including advancing 24/7 carbon-free energy), and after reducing our emissions as much as possible, we’re addressing our residual emissions with carbon removals.</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="subsection-cards"> <div class="subsection-cards-flex section-article js-section" id="measuring-our-carbon-footprint"> <p class="glue-eyebrow subsection-cards-eyebrow"> Measuring our carbon footprint </p> <div class="subsection-cards-container"> <div class="subsection-cards-items"> <div class="subsection-cards-image-container"> <div class="image-wrapper"> <img class="subsection-cards-img hide-image" data-src="https://www.gstatic.com/marketing-cms/assets/images/77/bd/e33ed2424dbda76cec93c69063e6/card1-large.webp=w300" alt="View of Google's Data Center in St. Ghislain, Belgium"> </div> </div> <p class="subsection-cards-decs"> Calculating and reporting our 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Sustainable biomass and carbon capture and storage (CCS) are special cases considered on a case-by-case basis, but are often also considered carbon-free energy sources. </div> </div> </div> </section> </div> <div class="glue-modal modal-parent report-modal-parent" role="dialog" aria-modal="true" aria-labelledby="modal-label" aria-describedby="modal-content-calculating-and-reporting-our-carbon-footprint" data-preview-id="calculating-and-reporting-our-carbon-footprint"> <div class="preview-dialog" data-ga-page-view="page_view" data-ga-preview-text="preview/" data-ga-scroll-event="scroll" data-ga-scroll-depth="25,50,75,100"> <button class="glue-modal__close-btn calculating-and-reporting-our-carbon-footprint close-button sus-icon-button" title="Close the modal" tabindex="0" aria-label="Close the modal"></button> <div id="modal-content-calculating-and-reporting-our-carbon-footprint" class="preview-content"> <div class="commitment-model" id="modal-page"> <section> <div class="navigation-menu"> <span class="navigation-menu-text">Operating sustainably</span> <span class="material-symbols-outlined nav-icon navigation-menu-icon-font"> chevron_right</span> <span> <a href="../../operating-sustainably/net-zero-carbon/" class="sus-link navigation-menu-text" title="Net-zero carbon" data-ga-event="in_page_navigation" data-ga-section-name="net zero carbon" data-ga-content-type="in_page_navigation"> Net-zero carbon </a> </span> </div> </section> <section class="main-content"> <h3 class="glue-spacer-3-top modal-title-text">Calculating and reporting our carbon footprint</h3> <div class="glue-grid__col glue-grid__col--span-4-sm glue-grid__col--span-8-md glue-grid__col--span-6-lg glue-grid__col--span-8-xl glue-order-1 glue-order-2-md glue-order-2-xl scroll-section-img"> <img class="scroll-section-img-main commitment-overview-image" loading="lazy" src="https://www.gstatic.com/marketing-cms/assets/images/9b/0c/871546bc488a9ae1860ac0235179/card1-large.webp" alt="View of Google's Data Center in St. Ghislain, Belgium"> <div class="glue-grid caption"> <div class="glue-grid__col--span-6"> <p class="image-caption-text"> Our data center in St. Ghislain, Belgium </p> </div> </div> <div class="caption-text"> <p>We began calculating our annual carbon footprint in 2006. Every year since 2009, we’ve publicly reported the results to CDP, a global organization that asks companies to disclose information on their GHG emissions performance and management. These are broken into Scope 1, Scope 2, and Scope 3 emissions.</p> <p>In 2023, our Scope 1 emissions were approximately 79,400 tCO2e, representing approximately 1% of our total carbon footprint. Compared to 2022, we reduced our Scope 1 emissions by 13% due to building electrification and decreases in emissions from transportation and data center generator use.</p> <p>Our Scope 2 (market-based) emissions were approximately 3.4 million tCO2e in 2023, representing 24% of our total carbon footprint. Our main source of Scope 2 emissions is purchased electricity for our data centers and offices. Compared to 2022, our Scope 2 (market-based) emissions—which originate primarily from our data center electricity consumption—increased by 37%, despite considerable efforts and progress on carbon-free energy. This was due to data center electricity consumption outpacing our ability to bring more CFE projects online, specifically in the United States and Asia-Pacific region, CFE contracts terminating prior to those projects becoming operational, and the current mismatch between our approach to CFE and the GHG Protocol’s Scope 2 guidance (see <a href="https://www.gstatic.com/gumdrop/sustainability/google-2024-environmental-report.pdf#page=32" target="_blank"><u>more details</u></a> on this mismatch).</p> <p>Our total Scope 3 emissions were approximately 10.8 million tCO2e in 2023, representing 75% of our total carbon footprint. Our Scope 3 emissions are indirect emissions from sources in our value chain. The majority of these emissions come from the production of goods and services purchased for our operations, including the upstream manufacturing and assembly of servers and networking equipment used in our technical infrastructure. Compared to 2022, our total Scope 3 emissions increased by 8% due to increases in emissions from goods and services purchased for our operations, upstream emissions from purchased electricity, and emissions related to data center construction.</p> <p>For more on our reporting and progress, see our <a href="https://www.gstatic.com/gumdrop/sustainability/google-2024-environmental-report.pdf" target="_blank">2024 Environmental Report</a>.</p> </div> </div> </section> <section class="card-section js-section"> <div class="card-container"> <p class="subsection-title">Related resources</p> <ul class="resource-card-container-main"> <li class="resource-sub-card-container"> <div class="card-link"> <div class="card-link-main"> <div class="image-wrapper"> <img class="card-link-image hide-image" data-src="https://www.gstatic.com/marketing-cms/assets/images/fc/22/46e2e1a847d08e20cf14f41c778f/7gafx67fbaltk7medium.webp" alt="Cover of Google's 2024 Environmental Report"> </div> </div> <p class="card-link-copy glue-headline glue-headline--headline-5"> Our 2024 Environmental Report</p> <div class="card-link-cta"> <div class="link-story"> <a href="https://www.gstatic.com/gumdrop/sustainability/google-2024-environmental-report.pdf" class="sus-link" title="View report: Our 2024 Environmental Report" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-ga-event="select_content" data-ga-cta-url="https://www.gstatic.com/gumdrop/sustainability/google-2024-environmental-report.pdf" data-ga-section-name="related resources" data-ga-content-type="report"> View report </a> </div> </div> </div> </li> </ul> </div> </section> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="glue-modal modal-parent report-modal-parent" role="dialog" aria-modal="true" aria-labelledby="modal-label" aria-describedby="modal-content-our-emissions-reduction-goal" data-preview-id="our-emissions-reduction-goal"> <div class="preview-dialog" data-ga-page-view="page_view" data-ga-preview-text="preview/" data-ga-scroll-event="scroll" data-ga-scroll-depth="25,50,75,100"> <button class="glue-modal__close-btn our-emissions-reduction-goal close-button sus-icon-button" title="Close the modal" tabindex="0" aria-label="Close the modal"></button> <div id="modal-content-our-emissions-reduction-goal" class="preview-content"> <div class="commitment-model" id="modal-page"> <section> <div class="navigation-menu"> <span class="navigation-menu-text">Operating sustainably</span> <span class="material-symbols-outlined nav-icon navigation-menu-icon-font"> chevron_right</span> <span> <a href="../../operating-sustainably/net-zero-carbon/" class="sus-link navigation-menu-text" title="Net-zero carbon" data-ga-event="in_page_navigation" data-ga-section-name="net zero carbon" data-ga-content-type="in_page_navigation"> Net-zero carbon </a> </span> </div> </section> <section class="main-content"> <h3 class="glue-spacer-3-top modal-title-text">Our emissions reduction goal</h3> <div class="glue-grid__col glue-grid__col--span-4-sm glue-grid__col--span-8-md glue-grid__col--span-6-lg glue-grid__col--span-8-xl glue-order-1 glue-order-2-md glue-order-2-xl scroll-section-img"> <img class="scroll-section-img-main commitment-overview-image" loading="lazy" src="https://www.gstatic.com/marketing-cms/assets/images/01/13/49f3f20a41b69206de323f8287b6/card2-large.webp" alt="Wildflowers bloom around cooling towers at our Council Bluffs, Iowa data center."> <div class="glue-grid caption"> <div class="glue-grid__col--span-6"> <p class="image-caption-text"> Our data center in Council Bluffs, Iowa </p> </div> </div> <div class="caption-text"> <p>We aim to reduce 50% of our combined Scope 1, 2 (market-based), and 3 absolute emissions by 2030. In 2023, our total GHG emissions were 14.3 million tCO₂e—representing a 48% increase compared to our 2019 base year emissions.</p> <p>We’re working to reduce our emissions across our data centers, offices, and upstream and downstream value chains. Our key efforts include clean energy procurement, energy-efficient and low-carbon facilities, electrification, sustainable travel and commuting, and supplier engagement.</p> <p>We’ve worked to make Google’s data centers <a href="https://www.google.com/about/datacenters/efficiency/" target="_blank">some of the most efficient</a> in the world, and we continue working to optimize their use of electricity, water, and materials.</p> <p>We design new office buildings and spaces to internationally-recognized and industry- leading green building standards, such as <a href="https://www.usgbc.org/leed" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">LEED</a> certification, <a href="https://bregroup.com/products/breeam/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">BREEAM</a>, and ILFI <a href="https://living-future.org/lbc/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">LBC</a> and <a href="https://living-future.org/zero-carbon/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Zero Carbon Certification</a>. And we use energy management strategies, building optimization, and data analytics to improve performance across our existing portfolio.</p> <p>We work with many suppliers that are committed to sustainability and we’re partnering with them to develop decarbonization roadmaps and build essential data infrastructure to accurately quantify emissions and reductions across the value chain.</p> </div> </div> </section> <section class="card-section"> <div class="card-container target-grid-section"> <p class="subsection-title">Tracking our progress</p> <div class="glue-grid card-container-main target-main-section"> <div class="glue-grid__col glue-grid__col--span-6 glue-grid__col--span-6-md target-sub-section label-text"> <p>Target</p> <h2 class="label-heading">Reduce 50% of our combined Scope 1, 2 (market-based), and 3 absolute emissions (compared to our 2019 base year) by 2030.</h2> </div> <div class="glue-grid__col glue-grid__col--span-6 glue-grid__col--span-6-md target-sub-section"> <div class="tracking-section"> <div class="tracking-subsection deadline label-text"> <p>Target year</p> <p>2030</p> </div> <div class="tracking-subsection status label-text"> <p>Status</p> <p class="progress-button"> Ongoing </p> </div> </div> <div class="progress-section"> <p class="frame-heading"> 2023</p> <p class="frame-sub-heading"> Our total GHG emissions were <b>14.3 million tCO₂e</b>, representing a 13% year-over-year increase and a 48% increase compared to our 2019 target base year—primarily due to increases in data center energy consumption and supply chain emissions. </p> <div class="text card-link-cta"> <a class="glue-cta glue-button--inline-links sus-link" href="https://www.gstatic.com/gumdrop/sustainability/google-2024-environmental-report.pdf" title="View report: Reduce 50% of our combined Scope 1, 2, and 3 absolute emissions before 2030." target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-ga-event="select_content" 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href="https://www.blog.google/outreach-initiatives/sustainability/living-building-challenge-2022/" class="sus-link" title="View story: Taking the Living Building Challenge to the next level" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-ga-event="select_content" data-ga-cta-url="https://www.blog.google/outreach-initiatives/sustainability/living-building-challenge-2022/" data-ga-section-name="related resources" data-ga-content-type="story"> View story </a> </div> </div> </div> </li> </ul> </div> </section> <section class="card-section"> <div class="card-container"> <p class="subsection-title">Did you know?</p> <ul class="resource-card-container-main"> <li class="resource-sub-card-container"> <div class="card-link"> <div class="card-bulb-cta"> <p class="sus-button-bulb-icon"> <span class="material-symbols-outlined">wb_incandescent</span> </p> </div> <div class="card-link-copy glue-headline frame-sub-heading"> <p>On average, a Google-owned and -operated data center is approximately 1.8 times as energy efficient as a typical enterprise data center.<sup>1</sup></p> </div> </div> </li> </ul> </div> </section> <section class="card-section module-bottom-spacer"> <div class="footnotes-section"> <div class="note-text"> <sup>1</sup> According to Google’s own analysis of our more efficient servers, power infrastructure, and cooling systems, compared with data center industry averages based on 2023 data. Uptime Institute’s annual data center survey from 2023 noted that the primary contributor to the flatlining of the industry average PUE is a richer geographical mix of surveyed data centers, with an increasing number of data centers in the Asia, Middle East, Africa, and Latin America regions. Facilities in these regions tend to be smaller in capacity and located in warmer climates—both factors which typically require greater energy consumption. </div> </div> </section> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="glue-modal modal-parent report-modal-parent" role="dialog" aria-modal="true" aria-labelledby="modal-label" aria-describedby="modal-content-energy-efficient-and low-carbon-facilities" data-preview-id="energy-efficient-and low-carbon-facilities"> <div class="preview-dialog" data-ga-page-view="page_view" data-ga-preview-text="preview/" data-ga-scroll-event="scroll" data-ga-scroll-depth="25,50,75,100"> <button class="glue-modal__close-btn energy-efficient-and low-carbon-facilities close-button sus-icon-button" title="Close the modal" tabindex="0" aria-label="Close the modal"></button> <div id="modal-content-energy-efficient-and low-carbon-facilities" class="preview-content"> <div class="commitment-model" id="modal-page"> <section> <div class="navigation-menu"> <span class="navigation-menu-text">Operating sustainably</span> <span class="material-symbols-outlined nav-icon navigation-menu-icon-font"> chevron_right</span> <span> <a href="../../operating-sustainably/net-zero-carbon/" class="sus-link navigation-menu-text" title="Net-zero carbon" data-ga-event="in_page_navigation" data-ga-section-name="net zero carbon" data-ga-content-type="in_page_navigation"> Net-zero carbon </a> </span> </div> </section> <section class="main-content"> <h3 class="glue-spacer-3-top modal-title-text">Energy-efficient and low-carbon facilities</h3> <div class="glue-grid__col glue-grid__col--span-4-sm glue-grid__col--span-8-md glue-grid__col--span-6-lg glue-grid__col--span-8-xl glue-order-1 glue-order-2-md glue-order-2-xl scroll-section-img"> <img class="scroll-section-img-main commitment-overview-image" loading="lazy" src="https://www.gstatic.com/marketing-cms/assets/images/5b/01/59cc07a74479838c98c951680321/card3-large.webp" alt="View of the Dragonscale Solar paneled roof at Bay View"> <div class="glue-grid caption"> <div class="glue-grid__col--span-6"> <p class="image-caption-text"> The Dragonscale solar-paneled roof at our campus in Bay View </p> </div> </div> <div class="caption-text"> <p>We’re working to reduce our electricity demand through low-carbon building design and energy-efficiency efforts in both new and existing facilities. We pursue a set of integrated strategies to reduce the carbon footprint of our facilities, including energy efficiency, building and fleet electrification, on-site generation of clean energy, and carbon-free energy<sup>1</sup> procurement. We are also <a href="../../operating-sustainably/circular-economy/">reducing waste</a> across our data centers, workplaces, and hardware products.</p> <p>When designing our data centers and offices, we consider options to reduce their carbon impacts, such as incorporation of low-GHG materials and adaptive reuse of existing buildings. For example, at our newly opened YouTube campus in San Bruno, California, we used low-carbon materials and mass timber for the buildings’ structures, which are estimated to have approximately 50% fewer embodied carbon emissions, compared to traditional materials like concrete and steel, factoring in sequestration.<sup>2</sup></p> <p>For new office buildings, we optimize for overall performance, including both efficiency and user experience, and design to internationally-recognized and industry-leading green building standards. We use energy management strategies, building optimization, and data analytics to help drive efficiency across our existing portfolio of offices.</p> <p>Our long-standing data center efficiency efforts are important because our data centers represent the vast majority of our direct electricity use. To reduce their energy use, we strive to build the world’s most energy-efficient computing network. Our efforts have paid off: On average, a Google-owned and -operated data center is approximately 1.8 times as energy efficient as a typical enterprise data center,<sup>3</sup> and compared to five years ago, our data centers deliver nearly four times as much computing power with the same amount of electrical power.<sup>4</sup></p> </div> </div> </section> <section class="card-section js-section"> <div class="card-container"> <p class="subsection-title">Related resources</p> <ul class="resource-card-container-main"> <li class="resource-sub-card-container"> <div class="card-link"> <div class="card-link-main"> <div class="image-wrapper"> <img class="card-link-image hide-image" data-src="https://www.gstatic.com/marketing-cms/assets/images/78/6d/fafae74345f690588460032ced52/res3-large.webp" alt="image of a data center building"> </div> </div> <p class="card-link-copy glue-headline glue-headline--headline-5"> Google is collaborating with industry peers to use greener concrete in its data centers</p> <div class="card-link-cta"> <div class="link-story"> <a href="https://climateaccord.org/press-releases/greener-concrete-for-digital-infrastructure-an-open-letter-and-call-to-action/" class="sus-link" title="Learn more: Google is collaborating with industry peers to use greener concrete in its data centers" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-ga-event="select_content" data-ga-cta-url="https://climateaccord.org/press-releases/greener-concrete-for-digital-infrastructure-an-open-letter-and-call-to-action/" data-ga-section-name="related resources" data-ga-content-type="cta"> Learn more </a> </div> </div> </div> </li> <li class="resource-sub-card-container"> <div class="card-link"> <div class="card-link-main"> <div class="image-wrapper"> <img class="card-link-image hide-image" data-src="https://www.gstatic.com/marketing-cms/assets/images/8d/d7/da30ce014b97bd271ea185bea367/res4large.webp" alt="View of the Dragonscale Solar paneled roof at Bay View"> </div> </div> <p class="card-link-copy glue-headline glue-headline--headline-5"> Google data center efficiency</p> <div class="card-link-cta"> <div class="link-story"> <a href="https://www.google.com/about/datacenters/efficiency/" class="sus-link" title="View story: Google data center efficiency" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-ga-event="select_content" data-ga-cta-url="https://www.google.com/about/datacenters/efficiency/" data-ga-section-name="related resources" data-ga-content-type="story"> View story </a> </div> </div> </div> </li> </ul> </div> </section> <section class="card-section"> <div class="card-container"> <p class="subsection-title">Did you know?</p> <ul class="resource-card-container-main"> <li class="resource-sub-card-container"> <div class="card-link"> <div class="card-bulb-cta"> <p class="sus-button-bulb-icon"> <span class="material-symbols-outlined">wb_incandescent</span> </p> </div> <div class="card-link-copy glue-headline frame-sub-heading"> <p>Since 2012, our average annual fleet-wide PUE<sup>5</sup> has stayed at or below 1.12.</p> </div> </div> </li> <li class="resource-sub-card-container"> <div class="card-link"> <div class="card-bulb-cta"> <p class="sus-button-bulb-icon"> <span class="material-symbols-outlined">wb_incandescent</span> </p> </div> <div class="card-link-copy glue-headline frame-sub-heading"> <p>As of the end of 2023, over 300 Google office facilities have achieved Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification, including 71 with a Platinum rating and 165 with a Gold rating.</p> </div> </div> </li> </ul> </div> </section> <section class="card-section module-bottom-spacer"> <div class="footnotes-section"> <div class="note-text"> <sup>1</sup> Carbon-free energy is any type of electricity generation that does not directly emit carbon dioxide, including (but not limited to) solar, wind, geothermal, hydropower, and nuclear. Sustainable biomass and carbon capture and storage (CCS) are special cases considered on a case-by-case basis, but are often also considered carbon-free energy sources. </div> <div class="note-text"> <sup>2</sup> This third-party estimate is based on a 2022 whole-building life cycle assessment, which includes requirements based on the LEED v4 Building Life Cycle Impact Reduction credit requirements, as well as full cradle-to-grave life cycle stages over a 75-year analysis period. The analysis included the foundation, structure, enclosure, and interior materials. </div> <div class="note-text"> <p><sup>3</sup> According to Google’s own analysis of our more efficient servers, power infrastructure, and cooling systems, compared with data center industry averages based on 2023 data. Uptime Institute’s annual data center survey from 2023 noted that the primary contributor to the flatlining of the industry average PUE is a richer geographical mix of surveyed data centers, with an increasing number of data centers in the Asia, Middle East, Africa, and Latin America regions. Facilities in these regions tend to be smaller in capacity and located in warmer climates—both factors which typically require greater energy consumption.</p> </div> <div class="note-text"> <sup>4</sup> According to Google’s platform-neutral measurement for central processing unit (CPU) resources analyzed over a five-year period from 2018-2023. </div> <div class="note-text"> <sup>5</sup> PUE is a standard industry ratio that compares the amount of non-computing overhead energy (used for things like cooling and power distribution) to the amount of energy used to power IT equipment. A PUE of 2.0 means that for every watt of IT power, an additional watt is consumed to cool and distribute power to the IT equipment. A PUE closer to 1.0 means nearly all the energy is used for computing. </div> </div> </section> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="glue-modal modal-parent report-modal-parent" role="dialog" aria-modal="true" aria-labelledby="modal-label" aria-describedby="modal-content-electrification-at-our-offices" data-preview-id="electrification-at-our-offices"> <div class="preview-dialog" data-ga-page-view="page_view" data-ga-preview-text="preview/" data-ga-scroll-event="scroll" data-ga-scroll-depth="25,50,75,100"> <button class="glue-modal__close-btn electrification-at-our-offices close-button sus-icon-button" title="Close the modal" tabindex="0" aria-label="Close the modal"></button> <div id="modal-content-electrification-at-our-offices" class="preview-content"> <div class="commitment-model" id="modal-page"> <section> <div class="navigation-menu"> <span class="navigation-menu-text">Operating sustainably</span> <span class="material-symbols-outlined nav-icon navigation-menu-icon-font"> chevron_right</span> <span> <a href="../../operating-sustainably/net-zero-carbon/" class="sus-link navigation-menu-text" title="Net-zero carbon" data-ga-event="in_page_navigation" data-ga-section-name="net zero carbon" data-ga-content-type="in_page_navigation"> Net-zero carbon </a> </span> </div> </section> <section class="main-content"> <h3 class="glue-spacer-3-top modal-title-text">Electrification at our offices</h3> <div class="glue-grid__col glue-grid__col--span-4-sm glue-grid__col--span-8-md glue-grid__col--span-6-lg glue-grid__col--span-8-xl glue-order-1 glue-order-2-md glue-order-2-xl scroll-section-img"> <img class="scroll-section-img-main commitment-overview-image" loading="lazy" src="https://www.gstatic.com/marketing-cms/assets/images/a8/c9/8b51b3d64b23b60ec8541da86967/card4-large.webp" alt="A bird’s-eye view of the second floor workspace at Bay View shows how thousands of Googlers can be in a connected space with individual team neighborhoods under an inspiring canopy."> <div class="glue-grid caption"> <div class="glue-grid__col--span-6"> <p class="image-caption-text"> A bird’s-eye view of the second floor workspace at Bay View </p> </div> </div> <div class="caption-text"> <p>Electrification—followed by clean energy procurement—is an essential first step toward decarbonizing our office and shuttle fleet operations. We’re exploring opportunities to electrify our facilities, from retrofitting existing building systems, to including electrification standards for new development, to working with landlords on electrification-friendly leases for buildings we don’t own.</p> <p>We’ve been piloting technologies to enable building electrification since 2010. For example, our first all-electric office—1842 North Shoreline in Mountain View, California—has been in operation for over a decade. Many of these pilots led us to confidently implement new technology in our large development projects. In 2023, we completed 14 full or partial office building electrification projects around the world—including in India, Brazil, and the San Francisco Bay Area—and we pledged to upgrade the iconic <a href="https://blog.google/inside-google/life-at-google/google-chicago-office-thompson-center/" target="_blank"><u>Thompson Center in Chicago</u></a> to an all-electric office building. And in 2023, we signed our first leases in the Google office portfolio with electrification provisions—located in the Asia-Pacific region—with more currently under negotiation.</p> <p>We <a href="https://blog.google/inside-google/life-at-google/bay-view-campus-grand-opening/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u>opened</u></a> Bay View—our first major campus developed by Google—an all-electric campus with the <a href="https://realestate.withgoogle.com/bayview/#/solutions/geothermal-system" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u>largest geothermal installation</u></a> in North America and the largest electric kitchen in our global portfolio.</p> <p>We’re also working to eliminate use of natural gas by designing all-electric kitchens at our offices, including in the Bay Area, Europe, and Latin America.</p> </div> </div> </section> <section class="card-section js-section"> <div class="card-container"> <p class="subsection-title">Related Resources</p> <ul class="resource-card-container-main"> <li class="resource-sub-card-container"> <div class="card-link"> <div class="card-link-main"> <div class="image-wrapper"> <img class="card-link-image hide-image" data-src="https://www.gstatic.com/marketing-cms/assets/images/72/78/d687b7c9447a909af194bc5edf23/res5large.webp" alt="An aerial photo of three large canopies that are covered in solar panels."> </div> </div> <p class="card-link-copy glue-headline glue-headline--headline-5"> Bay View is open: The first campus built by Google</p> <div class="card-link-cta"> <div class="link-story"> <a href="https://blog.google/inside-google/life-at-google/bay-view-campus-grand-opening/" class="sus-link" title="View story: Bay View is open: The first campus built by Google" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-ga-event="select_content" data-ga-cta-url="https://blog.google/inside-google/life-at-google/bay-view-campus-grand-opening/" data-ga-section-name="related resources" data-ga-content-type="story"> View story </a> </div> </div> </div> </li> <li class="resource-sub-card-container"> <div class="card-link"> <div class="card-link-main"> <div class="image-wrapper"> <img class="card-link-image hide-image" data-src="https://www.gstatic.com/marketing-cms/assets/images/55/ea/e6e9458548b1be6061837196859c/res6large.webp" alt="A cook uses a pizza tray to guide a pizza into an oven."> </div> </div> <p class="card-link-copy glue-headline glue-headline--headline-5"> It’s electric! 6 lessons from our largest electric kitchen</p> <div class="card-link-cta"> <div class="link-story"> <a href="https://blog.google/outreach-initiatives/sustainability/its-electric-6-lessons-from-our-largest-electric-kitchen/" class="sus-link" title="View story: It’s electric! 6 lessons from our largest electric kitchen" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-ga-event="select_content" data-ga-cta-url="https://blog.google/outreach-initiatives/sustainability/its-electric-6-lessons-from-our-largest-electric-kitchen/" data-ga-section-name="related resources" data-ga-content-type="story"> View story </a> </div> </div> </div> </li> </ul> </div> </section> <section class="card-section"> <div class="card-container"> <p class="subsection-title">Did you know?</p> <ul class="resource-card-container-main"> <li class="resource-sub-card-container"> <div class="card-link"> <div class="card-bulb-cta"> <p class="sus-button-bulb-icon"> <span class="material-symbols-outlined">wb_incandescent</span> </p> </div> <div class="card-link-copy glue-headline frame-sub-heading"> <p>Our 6 Pancras Square office was the first building project in the world to receive International Living Future Institute’s (ILFI) Zero Carbon Certification.</p> </div> </div> </li> <li class="resource-sub-card-container"> <div class="card-link"> <div class="card-bulb-cta"> <p class="sus-button-bulb-icon"> <span class="material-symbols-outlined">wb_incandescent</span> </p> </div> <div class="card-link-copy glue-headline frame-sub-heading"> <p>Our 237 Moffett Park Drive office in Sunnyvale is nearly entirely solar-powered, with 91% of its annual estimated energy demand covered by 5,000 on-site solar panels.</p> </div> </div> </li> </ul> </div> </section> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="glue-modal modal-parent report-modal-parent" role="dialog" aria-modal="true" aria-labelledby="modal-label" aria-describedby="modal-content-sustainable-travel-and-commuting" data-preview-id="sustainable-travel-and-commuting"> <div class="preview-dialog" data-ga-page-view="page_view" data-ga-preview-text="preview/" data-ga-scroll-event="scroll" data-ga-scroll-depth="25,50,75,100"> <button class="glue-modal__close-btn sustainable-travel-and-commuting close-button sus-icon-button" title="Close the modal" tabindex="0" aria-label="Close the modal"></button> <div id="modal-content-sustainable-travel-and-commuting" class="preview-content"> <div class="commitment-model" id="modal-page"> <section> <div class="navigation-menu"> <span class="navigation-menu-text">Operating sustainably</span> <span class="material-symbols-outlined nav-icon navigation-menu-icon-font"> chevron_right</span> <span> <a href="../../operating-sustainably/net-zero-carbon/" class="sus-link navigation-menu-text" title="Net-zero carbon" data-ga-event="in_page_navigation" data-ga-section-name="net zero carbon" data-ga-content-type="in_page_navigation"> Net-zero carbon </a> </span> </div> </section> <section class="main-content"> <h3 class="glue-spacer-3-top modal-title-text">Sustainable travel and commuting</h3> <div class="glue-grid__col glue-grid__col--span-4-sm glue-grid__col--span-8-md glue-grid__col--span-6-lg glue-grid__col--span-8-xl glue-order-1 glue-order-2-md glue-order-2-xl scroll-section-img"> <img class="scroll-section-img-main commitment-overview-image" loading="lazy" src="https://www.gstatic.com/marketing-cms/assets/images/4d/8b/ed092ec64ed79990f61018de5695/card5-large.webp" alt="Three Google bikes sit outside of a buidling"> <div class="caption-text"> <p>Our transportation team plans, implements, and operates sustainable commuting options that help Googlers get to work by riding shuttles, carpooling, taking public transit, biking, or walking. We also support hybrid meeting solutions and remote participation options to reduce employee travel needs.</p> <p>We have a growing number of electric vehicles in our corporate fleet, and the majority of our global fuel consumption from non-electric vehicles is renewable diesel. We strive to provide electric vehicle charging stations for 10% of the total parking spaces at our San Francisco Bay Area headquarters, and we continue to work toward this design standard for new development projects.</p> <p>Google offers commuter shuttles to many of its campuses to reduce individual vehicle commuting. For 2023, our shuttle buses in the San Francisco Bay Area produced savings of approximately 14,900 tCO<sub>2</sub>e emissions—the equivalent of avoiding more than 61 million vehicle kilometers (38 million vehicle miles) or taking on average more than 3,500 fuel-based cars off the road for a year.<sup>1</sup></p> </div> </div> </section> <section class="card-section js-section"> <div class="card-container"> <p class="subsection-title">Related resources</p> <ul class="resource-card-container-main"> <li class="resource-sub-card-container"> <div class="card-link"> <div class="card-link-main"> <div class="image-wrapper"> <img class="card-link-image hide-image" data-src="https://www.gstatic.com/marketing-cms/assets/images/07/3a/53bfed114fd4b25e8d8d22e463f4/evcharging-3-width-1600-format-webp.webp" alt="A cartoon shows a car driving, with images of the Google Maps pin, and two icons symbolizing electric charging."> </div> </div> <p class="card-link-copy glue-headline glue-headline--headline-5"> New ways to power up your electric vehicle adventures with Google Maps</p> <div class="card-link-cta"> <div class="link-story"> <a href="https://blog.google/products/maps/new-ways-to-power-up-your-electric-vehicle-adventures-with-google-maps/" class="sus-link" title="Learn more: New ways to power up your electric vehicle adventures with Google Maps" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-ga-event="select_content" data-ga-cta-url="https://blog.google/products/maps/new-ways-to-power-up-your-electric-vehicle-adventures-with-google-maps/" data-ga-section-name="related resources" data-ga-content-type="cta"> Learn more </a> </div> </div> </div> </li> <li class="resource-sub-card-container"> <div class="card-link"> <div class="card-link-main"> <div class="image-wrapper"> <img class="card-link-image hide-image" data-src="https://www.gstatic.com/marketing-cms/assets/images/8f/89/e361f0434ec295b433d83b5d4bbd/sustainable-travel-hero-width-1600-format-webp.webp" alt="Illustration of a public bus on a street, with a train in the background and plane flying overhead. Bubbles of text show the phrases & "Search trains" and "Climate Friendly"."> </div> </div> <p class="card-link-copy glue-headline glue-headline--headline-5"> Find more sustainable ways to get around, with new Maps and Search updates</p> <div class="card-link-cta"> <div class="link-story"> <a href="https://blog.google/products/search/find-more-sustainable-ways-to-get-around-with-new-maps-and-search-updates/" class="sus-link" title="Learn more: Find more sustainable ways to get around, with new Maps and Search updates" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-ga-event="select_content" data-ga-cta-url="https://blog.google/products/search/find-more-sustainable-ways-to-get-around-with-new-maps-and-search-updates/" data-ga-section-name="related resources" data-ga-content-type="cta"> Learn more </a> </div> </div> </div> </li> </ul> </div> </section> <section class="card-section"> <div class="card-container"> <p class="subsection-title">Did you know?</p> <ul class="resource-card-container-main"> <li class="resource-sub-card-container"> <div class="card-link"> <div class="card-bulb-cta"> <p class="sus-button-bulb-icon"> <span class="material-symbols-outlined">wb_incandescent</span> </p> </div> <div class="card-link-copy glue-headline frame-sub-heading"> <p>As of 2023, we’ve installed more than 6,000 electric vehicle charging ports at our offices in the United States and Canada.</p> </div> </div> </li> </ul> </div> </section> <section class="card-section module-bottom-spacer"> <div class="footnotes-section"> <div class="note-text"> <p></p> <p><sup>1</sup> Based on data collected from shuttle commuting trips in the San Francisco Bay Area, as compared to a scenario in which these employees had each used a private, fuel-based car for commuting. Assumptions include average Googler commute distance, miles per gallon assumptions from the Bureau of Transportation, and emissions per gallon of fuel assumptions from the Greenhouse Gas Protocol. Equivalency estimate is based on workdays in the year, using data from "<a href="https://www.epa.gov/energy/greenhouse-gas-equivalencies-calculator" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies Calculator</a>," U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, accessed May 2024.</p> <p></p> </div> </div> </section> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="glue-modal modal-parent report-modal-parent" role="dialog" aria-modal="true" aria-labelledby="modal-label" aria-describedby="modal-content-supplier-engagement" data-preview-id="supplier-engagement"> <div class="preview-dialog" data-ga-page-view="page_view" data-ga-preview-text="preview/" data-ga-scroll-event="scroll" data-ga-scroll-depth="25,50,75,100"> <button class="glue-modal__close-btn supplier-engagement close-button sus-icon-button" title="Close the modal" tabindex="0" aria-label="Close the modal"></button> <div id="modal-content-supplier-engagement" class="preview-content"> <div class="commitment-model" id="modal-page"> <section> <div class="navigation-menu"> <span class="navigation-menu-text">Operating sustainably</span> <span class="material-symbols-outlined nav-icon navigation-menu-icon-font"> chevron_right</span> <span> <a href="../../operating-sustainably/net-zero-carbon/" class="sus-link navigation-menu-text" title="Net-zero carbon" data-ga-event="in_page_navigation" data-ga-section-name="net zero carbon" data-ga-content-type="in_page_navigation"> Net-zero carbon </a> </span> </div> </section> <section class="main-content"> <h3 class="glue-spacer-3-top modal-title-text">Supplier engagement</h3> <div class="glue-grid__col glue-grid__col--span-4-sm glue-grid__col--span-8-md glue-grid__col--span-6-lg glue-grid__col--span-8-xl glue-order-1 glue-order-2-md glue-order-2-xl scroll-section-img"> <img class="scroll-section-img-main commitment-overview-image" loading="lazy" src="https://www.gstatic.com/marketing-cms/assets/images/e9/8f/41adbb994fb6bdda86d3f2a1b0b4/card6-large.webp" alt="Inside one of Google's supply chain factories"> <div class="caption-text"> <p>We partner with many suppliers—from hardware manufacturing to indirect services suppliers. Together, we’re developing decarbonization roadmaps and building essential data infrastructure to accurately quantify emissions and reductions across the value chain.</p> <p>As stated in our <a href="https://about.google/intl/en_us/supplier-code-of-conduct/" target="_blank"><u>Supplier Code of Conduct</u></a>, which all suppliers are required to sign, suppliers should seek to minimize energy consumption and GHG emissions. We assess supplier performance in reporting, managing, and reducing their emissions and incorporate this evaluation into our supplier scorecards.</p> <p>We directly engage with suppliers to improve their environmental data and accounting, including for their Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions. We expect all our suppliers to report environmental data, and we encourage them to respond to CDP’s Climate Change survey. In 2023, we invited 312 suppliers to participate, a 40% increase compared to 2022. Of these suppliers, at least 90% of our hardware suppliers, by spend, provided data. Collecting supplier-specific data helps us identify hotspots (or areas with the highest emissions impact) in our hardware supply chain and focus our work with our suppliers on emissions reduction roadmaps.</p> <p>Of the suppliers that we invited to respond to the CDP Climate Change survey in 2023, 60% reported having structured GHG emissions reduction targets,<sup>1</sup> and 74% of those targets were science-based.</p> </div> </div> </section> <section class="card-section js-section"> <div class="card-container"> <p class="subsection-title">Related resources</p> <ul class="resource-card-container-main"> <li class="resource-sub-card-container"> <div class="card-link"> <div class="card-link-main"> <div class="image-wrapper"> <img class="card-link-image hide-image" data-src="https://www.gstatic.com/marketing-cms/assets/images/5c/25/f80b84cc4dbfa2a6cd33aa23b900/res9large.webp" alt="First page of Google's Supplier Code of Conduct"> </div> </div> <p class="card-link-copy glue-headline glue-headline--headline-5"> Google Supplier Code of Conduct</p> <div class="card-link-cta"> <div class="link-story"> <a href="https://about.google/intl/en_us/supplier-code-of-conduct/" class="sus-link" title="Learn more: Google Supplier Code of Conduct" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-ga-event="select_content" data-ga-cta-url="https://about.google/intl/en_us/supplier-code-of-conduct/" data-ga-section-name="related resources" data-ga-content-type="cta"> Learn more </a> </div> </div> </div> </li> </ul> </div> </section> <section class="card-section module-bottom-spacer"> <div class="footnotes-section"> <div class="note-text"> <p><sup>1</sup> Per CDP’s <a href="https://cdn.cdp.net/cdp-production/cms/guidance_docs/pdfs/000/004/884/original/2023_Snapshot_Technical_Guidance.pdf?1706179291" target="_blank">guidance documents</a>, reported targets are considered “structured” if they include the scope(s) of emissions covered, the reduction percentage from the base year, the total base year emissions, the target year, and the target status.</p> </div> </div> </section> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="glue-modal modal-parent report-modal-parent" role="dialog" aria-modal="true" aria-labelledby="modal-label" aria-describedby="modal-content-purchasing-carbon-free-energy" data-preview-id="purchasing-carbon-free-energy"> <div class="preview-dialog" data-ga-page-view="page_view" data-ga-preview-text="preview/" data-ga-scroll-event="scroll" data-ga-scroll-depth="25,50,75,100"> <button class="glue-modal__close-btn purchasing-carbon-free-energy close-button sus-icon-button" title="Close the modal" tabindex="0" aria-label="Close the modal"></button> <div id="modal-content-purchasing-carbon-free-energy" class="preview-content"> <div class="commitment-model" id="modal-page"> <section> <div class="navigation-menu"> <span class="navigation-menu-text">Operating sustainably</span> <span class="material-symbols-outlined nav-icon navigation-menu-icon-font"> chevron_right</span> <span> <a href="../../operating-sustainably/net-zero-carbon/" class="sus-link navigation-menu-text" title="Net-zero carbon" data-ga-event="in_page_navigation" data-ga-section-name="net zero carbon" data-ga-content-type="in_page_navigation"> Net-zero carbon </a> </span> </div> </section> <section class="main-content"> <h3 class="glue-spacer-3-top modal-title-text">Purchasing carbon-free energy</h3> <div class="glue-grid__col glue-grid__col--span-4-sm glue-grid__col--span-8-md glue-grid__col--span-6-lg glue-grid__col--span-8-xl glue-order-1 glue-order-2-md glue-order-2-xl scroll-section-img"> <img class="scroll-section-img-main commitment-overview-image" loading="lazy" src="https://www.gstatic.com/marketing-cms/assets/images/53/4e/a4bc08c048aca5c38adf273dba35/card7large.webp" alt="View of a next-generation geothermal site"> <div class="glue-grid caption"> <div class="glue-grid__col--span-6"> <p class="image-caption-text"> The next-generation geothermal site in Nevada, in collaboration with clean-energy startup Fervo </p> </div> </div> <div class="caption-text"> <p>Our 24/7 carbon-free energy (CFE) strategy is focused on driving progress across three focus areas: purchasing carbon-free energy, accelerating new and improved technologies, and transforming the energy system through policy, partnerships, and advocacy.</p> <p>Carbon-free energy is any type of electricity generation that does not directly emit carbon dioxide, including (but not limited to) solar, wind, geothermal, hydropower, and nuclear. Sustainable biomass and carbon capture and storage (CCS) are special cases considered on a case-by-case basis, but are often also considered carbon-free energy sources.</p> <p>We buy electricity directly from new wind and solar farms via long-term power purchase agreements (PPAs) on the grids where we operate, and we also buy renewable power through utilities via renewable energy purchasing models that we helped create. Through these agreements, we estimate we'll spend more than $16 billion to purchase clean energy through 2040.<sup>1</sup></p> <p>We are also working on a wide range of projects to demonstrate, scale, and maximize the climate impact of carbon-free energy technologies, such as <a href="https://blog.google/outreach-initiatives/sustainability/dragonscale-solar/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u>new solar roofing</u></a> for on-site power generation, <a href="https://blog.google/inside-google/infrastructure/data-centers-work-harder-sun-shines-wind-blows/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u>carbon-intelligent computing</u></a>, and <a href="https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/infrastructure/google-fervo-geothermal-project-creates-carbon-free-energy" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u>next-generation geothermal power</u></a>.<br></p> <p>Achieving 24/7 CFE is far more complex and technically challenging than annually matching our energy use with renewable energy purchases. We see our efforts as part of a bigger picture, and we’ve set these ambitious goals to help scale new, global solutions. We’re excited to see others—like the <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/12/08/fact-sheet-president-biden-signs-executive-order-catalyzing-americas-clean-energy-economy-through-federal-sustainability/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u>U.S. federal government</u></a>—set similar goals as well.</p> </div> </div> </section> <section class="card-section"> <div class="card-container target-grid-section"> <p class="subsection-title">Tracking our progress</p> <div class="glue-grid card-container-main target-main-section"> <div class="glue-grid__col glue-grid__col--span-6 glue-grid__col--span-6-md target-sub-section label-text"> <p>Target</p> <h2 class="label-heading">Run on 24/7 carbon-free energy on every grid where we operate by 2030.<sup>2</sup></h2> </div> <div class="glue-grid__col glue-grid__col--span-6 glue-grid__col--span-6-md target-sub-section"> <div class="tracking-section"> <div class="tracking-subsection deadline label-text"> <p>Target year</p> <p>2030</p> </div> <div class="tracking-subsection status label-text"> <p>Status</p> <p class="progress-button"> Ongoing </p> </div> </div> <div class="progress-section"> <p class="frame-heading"> 2023</p> <p class="frame-sub-heading"> We maintained a global average of approximately <b>64%</b> carbon-free energy across our data centers and offices from 2022 to 2023—despite growth in electricity demand over this period. </p> <div class="text card-link-cta"> <a class="glue-cta glue-button--inline-links sus-link" href="https://www.gstatic.com/gumdrop/sustainability/google-2024-environmental-report.pdf" title="View report: Run on carbon-free energy 24/7 on every grid where we operate by 2030." target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-ga-event="select_content" data-ga-cta-url="https://www.gstatic.com/gumdrop/sustainability/google-2024-environmental-report.pdf" data-ga-section-name="tracking our progress" data-ga-content-type="report"> View report </a> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </section> <section class="card-section js-section"> <div class="card-container"> <p class="subsection-title">Related resources</p> <ul class="resource-card-container-main"> <li class="resource-sub-card-container"> <div class="card-link"> <div class="card-link-main"> <div class="image-wrapper"> <img class="card-link-image hide-image" data-src="https://www.gstatic.com/marketing-cms/assets/images/ef/d2/6f23d7a94bb7955a3f69177b85a0/leap-thumbnail-o-max-2600x2600-medium.webp" alt="Collage of mountain range with wind turbines and solar panels"> </div> </div> <p class="card-link-copy glue-headline glue-headline--headline-5"> 1.5 gigawatts later, our smarter way of buying clean energy is here to stay</p> <div class="card-link-cta"> <div class="link-story"> <a href="https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/sustainability/new-power-purchasing-agreement-method-lands-1-gw-clean-energy" class="sus-link" title="View story: 1.5 gigawatts later, our smarter way of buying clean energy is here to stay" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-ga-event="select_content" data-ga-cta-url="https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/sustainability/new-power-purchasing-agreement-method-lands-1-gw-clean-energy" data-ga-section-name="related resources" data-ga-content-type="story"> View story </a> </div> </div> </div> </li> <li class="resource-sub-card-container"> <div class="card-link"> <div class="card-link-main"> <div class="image-wrapper"> <img class="card-link-image hide-image" data-src="https://www.gstatic.com/marketing-cms/assets/images/69/18/016ee3f746aa91909a50cdf563de/pledge.webp" alt="Illustration of a woman on a bike with images of wind power, forests and solar power in the background."> </div> </div> <p class="card-link-copy glue-headline glue-headline--headline-5"> Our pledge to support carbon removal solutions</p> <div class="card-link-cta"> <div class="link-story"> <a href="https://blog.google/outreach-initiatives/sustainability/pledge-to-support-carbon-removal-solutions/" class="sus-link" title="View story: Our pledge to support carbon removal solutions" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-ga-event="select_content" data-ga-cta-url="https://blog.google/outreach-initiatives/sustainability/pledge-to-support-carbon-removal-solutions/" data-ga-section-name="working together" data-ga-content-type="story"> View story </a> </div> </div> </div> </li> </ul> </div> </section> <section class="card-section"> <div class="card-container"> <p class="subsection-title">Did you know?</p> <ul class="resource-card-container-main"> <li class="resource-sub-card-container"> <div class="card-link"> <div class="card-bulb-cta"> <p class="sus-button-bulb-icon"> <span class="material-symbols-outlined">wb_incandescent</span> </p> </div> <div class="card-link-copy glue-headline frame-sub-heading"> <p>From 2010 to 2023, we signed more than 115 agreements totaling over 14 GW of clean energy generation capacity<sup>4</sup>—the equivalent of more than 36 million solar panels.<sup>5</sup></p> </div> </div> </li> <li class="resource-sub-card-container"> <div class="card-link"> <div class="card-bulb-cta"> <p class="sus-button-bulb-icon"> <span class="material-symbols-outlined">wb_incandescent</span> </p> </div> <div class="card-link-copy glue-headline frame-sub-heading"> <p>In 2023, 10 of our 44 grid regions<sup>3</sup> achieved at least 90% CFE.</p> </div> </div> </li> </ul> </div> </section> <section class="card-section module-bottom-spacer"> <div class="footnotes-section"> <div class="note-text"> <sup>1</sup> This estimated spend is based on contracts signed to purchase clean energy for our operations. Actual spend may vary from these estimates based on changes in renewable electricity output from operational projects, the number of contracts signed, and energy market prices. </div> <div class="note-text"> <sup>2</sup> Carbon-free energy is any type of electricity generation that does not directly emit carbon dioxide, including (but not limited to) solar, wind, geothermal, hydropower, and nuclear. Sustainable biomass and carbon capture and storage (CCS) are special cases considered on a case-by-case basis, but are often also considered carbon-free energy sources. </div> <div class="note-text"> <sup>3</sup> A grid region (or regional grid) corresponds to the area over which a single entity manages the operation of the electric power system and ensures that demand and supply are finely balanced. In the United States, this generally means the ISO or RTO in regions that have these regional market structures. If no such structure exists, then Google defines the grid region as the electricity balancing authority where our data centers are located. Outside of the United States, the grid region most often refers to the geographic boundary of a country, because most grid system operators operate at the national level. Certain regions that span multiple countries are well interconnected and could be considered as one grid; however, our grid mix calculations already include import and export considerations and therefore take into account power flows from neighboring grids. In the future, we may update our definition as we work with grid operators to better understand how transmission constraints or congestion impact CFE measurement within and across grid regions. </div> <div class="note-text"> <sup>4</sup> The total GW figure includes generation capacity from tax equity agreements. </div> <div class="note-text"> <p><sup>5</sup> Solar panels equivalency based on “<a href="https://www.energy.gov/eere/articles/how-much-power-1-gigawatt" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How much power is 1 Gigawatt?</a>,” Office of Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy, August 2023.</p> </div> </div> </section> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="glue-modal modal-parent report-modal-parent" role="dialog" aria-modal="true" aria-labelledby="modal-label" aria-describedby="modal-content-accelerating-new-and-improved-technologies" data-preview-id="accelerating-new-and-improved-technologies"> <div class="preview-dialog" data-ga-page-view="page_view" data-ga-preview-text="preview/" data-ga-scroll-event="scroll" data-ga-scroll-depth="25,50,75,100"> <button class="glue-modal__close-btn accelerating-new-and-improved-technologies close-button sus-icon-button" title="Close the modal" tabindex="0" aria-label="Close the modal"></button> <div id="modal-content-accelerating-new-and-improved-technologies" class="preview-content"> <div class="commitment-model" id="modal-page"> <section> <div class="navigation-menu"> <span class="navigation-menu-text">Operating sustainably</span> <span class="material-symbols-outlined nav-icon navigation-menu-icon-font"> chevron_right</span> <span> <a href="../../operating-sustainably/net-zero-carbon/" class="sus-link navigation-menu-text" title="Net-zero carbon" data-ga-event="in_page_navigation" data-ga-section-name="net zero carbon" data-ga-content-type="in_page_navigation"> Net-zero carbon </a> </span> </div> </section> <section class="main-content"> <h3 class="glue-spacer-3-top modal-title-text">Accelerating new and improved technologies</h3> <div class="glue-grid__col glue-grid__col--span-4-sm glue-grid__col--span-8-md glue-grid__col--span-6-lg glue-grid__col--span-8-xl glue-order-1 glue-order-2-md glue-order-2-xl scroll-section-img"> <img class="scroll-section-img-main commitment-overview-image" loading="lazy" src="https://www.gstatic.com/marketing-cms/assets/images/ad/7b/62008bfc43db8bf2ed36e1557b23/card8large.webp" alt="An offshore windmill in the ocean with a bright blue sky in the background"> <div class="glue-grid caption"> <div class="glue-grid__col--span-6"> <p class="image-caption-text"> Windmills at the Norther Offshore Wind Farm in Belgium, our first offshore wind PPA </p> </div> </div> <div class="caption-text"> <p>Wind and solar power have played a critical role in enabling Google’s clean energy progress, but meeting our 24/7 carbon-free energy goal—and maximizing our contribution to global decarbonization—will require expanding our technology toolkit. In 2023, we <a href="https://blog.google/outreach-initiatives/sustainability/advanced-clean-energy-google-paper/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u>continued to work</u></a> on a wide range of projects to demonstrate, scale, and maximize the climate impact of carbon-free energy technologies, leveraging Google’s engineering capabilities and purchasing power to accelerate the commercialization of new clean energy technologies.</p> <p>Examples of our efforts to accelerate new clean energy technologies:<br></p> <p></p> <p></p> <ul> <li>Optimizing generation from existing CFE technologies</li> <li>Managing energy demand across our global operations</li> <li>Accelerating next generation energy sources</li> <li>Improving clean energy data, tracking, and trading</li> </ul> <p></p> <p></p> </div> </div> </section> <section class="card-section js-section"> <div class="card-container"> <p class="subsection-title">Related resources</p> <ul class="resource-card-container-main"> <li 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src="https://www.gstatic.com/marketing-cms/assets/images/dc/88/76aa113141bba20bdcbc84542ccd/card9large.webp" alt="Worker onsite at the next-generation geothermal site, in collaboration with clean-energy startup Fervo"> <div class="glue-grid caption"> <div class="glue-grid__col--span-6"> <p class="image-caption-text"> Onsite at the next-generation geothermal site, in collaboration with clean-energy startup Fervo </p> </div> </div> <div class="caption-text"> <p>We are supporting others to join us on the journey to 24/7 carbon-free energy,<sup>1</sup> by sharing insights and lessons we are learning and new approaches we are developing.</p> <p>One such example is the United Nations 24/7 <a href="https://gocarbonfree247.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u>Carbon-free Energy Compact</u></a>, which we helped launch with Sustainable Energy for All and other partners in 2021. The Compact is a global community dedicated to building the technologies, policies, tools, ideas, and advocacy needed to accelerate the decarbonization of electricity grids.</p> <p>In Europe, we work with the European <a href="https://247.eurelectric.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u>24/7 CFE Hub</u></a>, a collaboration with Eurelectric to create a platform where energy buyers, suppliers, and policymakers can meet to learn more about 24/7 CFE and receive technical training and implementation guidance.</p> <p>In 2022, we published a first-of-its-kind <a href="https://www.gstatic.com/gumdrop/sustainability/policy-roadmap-carbon-free-energy.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><u>policy roadmap</u></a> sharing our recommendations for energy policy and market reforms to accelerate electricity decarbonization, informed by our experiences as a large energy user and clean energy buyer around the world.</p> <p>We are committed to working with others and advocating for clean energy policies that can enable 24/7 CFE for all energy consumers by decarbonizing electricity grids at the scale and pace required to meet the world’s climate challenge.</p> </div> </div> </section> <section class="card-section js-section"> <div class="card-container"> <p class="subsection-title">Related resources</p> <ul class="resource-card-container-main"> <li class="resource-sub-card-container"> <div class="card-link"> <div class="card-link-main"> <div class="image-wrapper"> <img class="card-link-image hide-image" data-src="https://www.gstatic.com/marketing-cms/assets/images/12/0b/eae1f92846c694473383c96d1f1e/res14large.webp" alt="Illustration showing a building with solar panels and wind turbines."> </div> </div> <p class="card-link-copy glue-headline glue-headline--headline-5"> Building more accurate and effective greenhouse gas accounting</p> <div class="card-link-cta"> <div class="link-story"> <a href="https://blog.google/outreach-initiatives/sustainability/greenhouse-gas-protocol-comments/" class="sus-link" title="View story: Building more accurate and effective greenhouse gas accounting" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-ga-event="select_content" data-ga-cta-url="https://blog.google/outreach-initiatives/sustainability/greenhouse-gas-protocol-comments/" data-ga-section-name="related resources" data-ga-content-type="story"> View story </a> </div> </div> </div> </li> <li class="resource-sub-card-container"> <div class="card-link"> <div class="card-link-main"> <div class="image-wrapper"> <img class="card-link-image hide-image" data-src="https://www.gstatic.com/marketing-cms/assets/images/d8/ed/4b15170d40d3b43e1a5a75933519/sustainability-hero-width-1600-format-webp.webp" alt="A graphic showing carbon-free energy technologies against a green landscape."> </div> </div> <p class="card-link-copy glue-headline glue-headline--headline-5"> A new initiative with Microsoft and Nucor to accelerate advanced clean electricity technologies</p> <div class="card-link-cta"> <div class="link-story"> <a href="https://blog.google/outreach-initiatives/sustainability/google-microsoft-nucor-clean-energy-initiative/" class="sus-link" title="View story: A new initiative with Microsoft and Nucor to accelerate advanced clean electricity technologies" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-ga-event="select_content" data-ga-cta-url="https://blog.google/outreach-initiatives/sustainability/google-microsoft-nucor-clean-energy-initiative/" data-ga-section-name="related resources" data-ga-content-type="story"> View story </a> </div> </div> </div> </li> </ul> </div> </section> <section class="card-section"> <div class="card-container"> <p class="subsection-title">Did you know?</p> <ul class="resource-card-container-main"> <li class="resource-sub-card-container"> <div class="card-link"> <div class="card-bulb-cta"> <p class="sus-button-bulb-icon"> <span class="material-symbols-outlined">wb_incandescent</span> </p> </div> <div class="card-link-copy glue-headline frame-sub-heading"> <p>In 2023, the 24/7 CFE compact surpassed 140 signatories.</p> </div> </div> </li> </ul> </div> </section> <section class="card-section module-bottom-spacer"> <div class="footnotes-section"> <div class="note-text"> <sup>1</sup> Carbon-free energy is any type of electricity generation that does not directly emit carbon dioxide, including (but not limited to) solar, wind, geothermal, hydropower, and nuclear. Sustainable biomass and carbon capture and storage (CCS) are special cases considered on a case-by-case basis, but are often also considered carbon-free energy sources. </div> </div> </section> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="glue-modal modal-parent report-modal-parent" role="dialog" aria-modal="true" aria-labelledby="modal-label" aria-describedby="modal-content-cfe-investments" data-preview-id="cfe-investments"> <div class="preview-dialog" data-ga-page-view="page_view" data-ga-preview-text="preview/" data-ga-scroll-event="scroll" data-ga-scroll-depth="25,50,75,100"> <button class="glue-modal__close-btn cfe-investments close-button sus-icon-button" title="Close the modal" tabindex="0" aria-label="Close the modal"></button> <div id="modal-content-cfe-investments" class="preview-content"> <div class="commitment-model" id="modal-page"> <section> <div class="navigation-menu"> <span class="navigation-menu-text">Operating sustainably</span> <span class="material-symbols-outlined nav-icon navigation-menu-icon-font"> chevron_right</span> <span> <a href="../../operating-sustainably/net-zero-carbon/" class="sus-link navigation-menu-text" title="Net-zero carbon" data-ga-event="in_page_navigation" data-ga-section-name="net zero emissions" data-ga-content-type="in_page_navigation"> Net-zero carbon </a> </span> </div> </section> <section class="main-content"> <h3 class="glue-spacer-3-top modal-title-text">CFE investments</h3> <div class="glue-grid__col glue-grid__col--span-4-sm glue-grid__col--span-8-md glue-grid__col--span-6-lg glue-grid__col--span-8-xl glue-order-1 glue-order-2-md glue-order-2-xl scroll-section-img"> <img class="scroll-section-img-main commitment-overview-image" loading="lazy" src="https://www.gstatic.com/marketing-cms/assets/images/87/c0/ce67024d444293245f808b00486c/card10large.webp" alt="A solar installation in Rødby, Denmark"> <div class="glue-grid caption"> <div class="glue-grid__col--span-6"> <p class="image-caption-text"> A solar installation in Rødby that adds carbon-free energy to the grid that powers our data center in Fredericia, Denmark </p> </div> </div> <div class="caption-text"> <p>Our long-term vision is that all of our suppliers—for hardware manufacturing, transport, logistics, and indirect services—and their communities have access to reliable, cost-effective, carbon-free energy.<sup>1</sup> And we’ll get there only through significant global investment in new wind, solar, and other clean energy capacity, as well as more robust grid systems.</p> <p>In 2020, Google set a goal to enable 5 gigawatts (GW) of new carbon-free energy through investments in our key manufacturing regions by 2030. Investment in renewable capacity is a scalable approach to creating system-level change by driving grid decarbonization and enabling greater access to carbon-free energy.</p> <p>To fulfill this goal, Google has been advancing efforts across the globe. Google’s investments will be targeted to support bringing additional carbon-free energy capacity online in key manufacturing regions around the globe, including in the North America, Latin America, Europe, and Asia Pacific regions. Such projects may reduce Google’s carbon footprint directly, may reduce a Google supplier’s carbon footprint, or may simply help decarbonize the local grid.</p> <p>In 2023, we continued to invest toward this goal as part of a holistic strategy to increase the availability of CFE across our hardware supply chain.</p> </div> </div> </section> <section class="card-section js-section"> <div class="card-container"> <p class="subsection-title">Related resources</p> <ul class="resource-card-container-main"> <li class="resource-sub-card-container"> <div class="card-link"> <div class="card-link-main"> <div class="image-wrapper"> <img class="card-link-image hide-image" data-src="https://www.gstatic.com/marketing-cms/assets/images/3b/a8/527afb134ed0aa1eb75b48c11700/8hz6k9hwn2fhuui.jpeg" alt="Sundar Pichai speaking to the camera with a green Gleaf logo in the left hand corner"> </div> </div> <p class="card-link-copy glue-headline glue-headline--headline-5"> Our third decade of climate action: Realizing a carbon-free future</p> <div class="card-link-cta"> <div class="link-story"> <a href="https://blog.google/outreach-initiatives/sustainability/our-third-decade-climate-action-realizing-carbon-free-future/" class="sus-link" title="View story: Our third decade of climate action: Realizing a carbon-free future" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-ga-event="select_content" data-ga-cta-url="https://blog.google/outreach-initiatives/sustainability/our-third-decade-climate-action-realizing-carbon-free-future/" data-ga-section-name="related resources" data-ga-content-type="story"> View story </a> </div> </div> </div> </li> </ul> </div> </section> <section class="card-section"> <div class="card-container"> <p class="subsection-title">Did you know?</p> <ul class="resource-card-container-main"> <li class="resource-sub-card-container"> <div class="card-link"> <div class="card-bulb-cta"> <p class="sus-button-bulb-icon"> <span class="material-symbols-outlined">wb_incandescent</span> </p> </div> <div class="card-link-copy glue-headline frame-sub-heading"> <p>From 2010 to 2023, we entered into agreements to invest approximately $3.1 billion in renewable energy projects with an expected combined generation capacity of approximately 4.5 GW.<sup>2</sup></p> </div> </div> </li> </ul> </div> </section> <section class="card-section module-bottom-spacer"> <div class="footnotes-section"> <div class="note-text"> <sup>1</sup> Carbon-free energy is any type of electricity generation that does not directly emit carbon dioxide, including (but not limited to) solar, wind, geothermal, hydropower, and nuclear. Sustainable biomass and carbon capture and storage (CCS) are special cases considered on a case-by-case basis, but are often also considered carbon-free energy sources. </div> <div class="note-text"> <sup>2</sup> The total GW figure includes generation capacity from targeted renewable energy investments. Actual amounts funded and generation capacity developed may vary from the amounts anticipated when the agreements were signed. </div> </div> </section> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="glue-modal modal-parent report-modal-parent" role="dialog" aria-modal="true" aria-labelledby="modal-label" aria-describedby="modal-content-strengthening-carbon-credit-markets" data-preview-id="strengthening-carbon-credit-markets"> <div class="preview-dialog" data-ga-page-view="page_view" data-ga-preview-text="preview/" data-ga-scroll-event="scroll" data-ga-scroll-depth="25,50,75,100"> <button class="glue-modal__close-btn strengthening-carbon-credit-markets close-button sus-icon-button" title="Close the modal" tabindex="0" aria-label="Close the modal"></button> <div id="modal-content-strengthening-carbon-credit-markets" class="preview-content"> <div class="commitment-model" id="modal-page"> <section> <div class="navigation-menu"> <span class="navigation-menu-text">Operating sustainably</span> <span class="material-symbols-outlined nav-icon navigation-menu-icon-font"> chevron_right</span> <span> <a href="../../operating-sustainably/net-zero-carbon/" class="sus-link navigation-menu-text" title="Net-zero carbon" data-ga-event="in_page_navigation" data-ga-section-name="net zero carbon" data-ga-content-type="in_page_navigation"> Net-zero carbon </a> </span> </div> </section> <section class="main-content"> <h3 class="glue-spacer-3-top modal-title-text">Strengthening carbon credit markets</h3> <div class="glue-grid__col glue-grid__col--span-4-sm glue-grid__col--span-8-md glue-grid__col--span-6-lg glue-grid__col--span-8-xl glue-order-1 glue-order-2-md glue-order-2-xl scroll-section-img"> <img class="scroll-section-img-main commitment-overview-image" loading="lazy" src="https://www.gstatic.com/marketing-cms/assets/images/f8/9f/f28d131844ee8e4c43fad5056f98/card12large.webp" alt="Solar panels at the Acciona, Chile site"> <div class="glue-grid caption"> <div class="glue-grid__col--span-6"> <p class="image-caption-text"> Solar panels at the Acciona, Chile site. Google has invested in Chile in the use of clean energy for its operations since 2017 </p> </div> </div> <div class="caption-text"> <p>Carbon markets can be a valuable mechanism for businesses to counterbalance residual emissions, but only if there are strong standards and effective verification mechanisms to ensure that the credits that businesses purchase lead to real and lasting emissions reductions or removals.</p> <p>We will continue to work with other companies and stakeholders in the scientific, academic, and NGO community to improve measurement, reporting, and verification (MRV) and develop tools to support robust, well-functioning markets. 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