Company: GEF
Filing Date: 2025-11-19
Form Type: 10-KT
Source: 0001628280-25-053146
Chunk: 31

Company: GREIF, INC
Filing Date: 2025-11-19
Form: 10-KT
Chunk 31
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 could damage our reputation, customer and investor relationships or our access to financing. Further, given certain investors’ focus related to ESG matters, such a failure or other perspectives on such initiatives could cause stockholders to reduce their ownership holdings, all of which, in turn could adversely affect our business, financial condition, results of operations and cash flows and reduce our stock price.

We have made and may continue to make public statements regarding our ESG strategies, goals, initiatives and performance, including climate commitments and sustainability targets such as our 2030 GHG emissions reduction goal. These statements are subject to the disclosure requirements described above under SEC rules, California legislation, the EU Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive and other regulatory frameworks. If our disclosures, targets or claims are perceived as inaccurate, misleading, or not supported by adequate data or progress, we could be subject to regulatory investigations, enforcement actions, litigation, shareholder claims, or allegations of “greenwashing.” In addition, the overlapping and distinct disclosure requirements across multiple jurisdictions create a heightened risk of inadvertent misstatements or omissions. Any of these outcomes could harm our reputation, increase costs, and negatively affect our business, results of operations and financial condition.

Legislation/Regulation Related to Environmental and Health and Safety Matters Could Negatively Impact our Operations and Financial Performance.

We must comply with extensive and sometimes inconsistent laws, rules and regulations in the United States, Europe and in each of the countries where we conduct business regarding environmental matters, such as air, soil and water quality and waste disposal. We must also comply with extensive laws, rules and regulations regarding safety, health and corporate social responsibility matters. There can be no assurance that compliance with existing and new laws, rules and regulations will not require significant expenditures.

In addition, existing laws, rules and regulations, as well as the interpretation and administration of such laws and regulations by governmental agencies, can be revised or reinterpreted or new laws and regulations could be adopted or become applicable to us that restrict or prohibit the manner in which we conduct our current operations, require additional permits to engage in some or all of our current operations, or increase the cost of some or all our operations. For example, the U.S. EPA previously

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indicated potential forthcoming changes to the regulatory framework that may impact our reconditioning business requiring a change to our processes and operations going forward. Such changes could adversely affect our business, financial condition, results of operations and cash flows.

We are also subject to transportation safety regulations prom