Company: GOOGL
Filing Date: 2025-04-25
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001308179-25-000511
Chunk: 66

Company: Alphabet Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-25
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 66
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 its scope, timeline, and base year. We provide extensive reporting to allow our stockholders to understand our annual performance against our goals, including our year-over-year emissions by scope, our global and regional carbon-free energy progress, related methodology descriptions, and environmental risk management details, including our climate risk assessment process. Importantly, we are also transparent about the challenges that we face in reaching our goals, including increased data center energy consumption and supply chain emissions, procurement headwinds faced by the clean energy industry, and the complexities of decarbonizing certain industries and regions core to our supply chain. We acknowledge that achieving net-zero emissions and 24/7 carbon-free energy by 2030 are ambitious goals, and that our path will not be easy or linear. Driven by our commitment to clean energy progress, we are actively pursuing a wide range of opportunities, as evidenced by our recent ventures into next-generation nuclear energy and enhanced geothermal power. These strategic initiatives are fundamental aspects of our ordinary business operations and are best executed by management who possess the necessary expertise and insights into our business needs and opportunities. We believe that our current practices provide sufficient information to allow our stockholders to understand our climate goals, the programs and strategies that we are employing to meet them, and our latest progress and challenges. We are constantly evolving our disclosures to align with best practices and expectations, including compliance with regulatory frameworks We evolve our disclosures to meet a number of reporting regulations globally. We believe our existing and any forthcoming disclosures will continue to provide meaningful information to our stakeholders. Preparing the separate, bespoke report as requested by the proponent would be duplicative and inefficient, administratively burdensome, and an ineffective use of our resources. Given all of this, our Board believes that the additional report requested by this proposal is not necessary and would not provide additional useful information to our stockholders. Required Vote Approval of the stockholder proposal requires the affirmative FOR vote of the holders of a majority of the voting power of Alphabet’s shares of Class A common stock and Class B common stock present or represented by proxy at the Annual Meeting and entitled to vote thereon, voting together as a single class. Unless marked to the contrary, proxies received will be voted AGAINST the stockholder proposal. Alphabet Recommendation

| OUR BOARD OF DIRECTORS RECOMMENDS A VOTE AGAINST THE STOCKHOLDER PROPOSAL. |

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