Company: LIN
Filing Date: 2025-04-30
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000950170-25-060925
Chunk: 93

Company: LINDE PLC
Filing Date: 2025-04-30
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 93
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 associations to encourage alignment between our core public policy objectives and their policy advocacy activities, including on climate change. Altogether, these activities and engagement support Linde's progress towards goals, including the company's science-based absolute GHG reduction target by 2035 and climate neutrality ambition by 2050. Linde has substantial sustainable development and climate change policies and undertakings that are aligned with the Paris Accords and Linde is a recognized leader in the industry. Linde has supported international action on climate change for many years. We have demonstrated this commitment through our ongoing public support of the Paris Accords, our collaboration with our peers and key stakeholders, and our active engagement with policymakers to drive positive climate action.

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Proposal 6: Shareholder Proposal Requesting Annual Climate Lobbying Report

Linde continues to steadily progress to achieve it ambitious goals for our own operations to mitigate our climate impacts, including our previously disclosed goals to (1) reduce GHG intensity by 35% by 2028, (2) reduce absolute GHG emissions by 2035; and (3) the ambition to achieve climate neutral status by 2050. We disclose our emissions performance annually in our SD Report and through the CDP Climate survey. Detailed information about these goals is available on Linde's website at https://www.linde.com/sustainability/targets-and-performance. In addition, Linde has a robust decarbonization strategy whereby many of Linde's industrial gases products, including large capital projects, enable our customers to themselves to reduce their carbon emissions. These include green and blue hydrogen plants and similar capital projects. Linde is also consistently recognized as a leader in sustainable development, including among others: • Selected to the Dow Jones Best in Class World Index for the 22 nd consecutive year • Recognized at the leadership level for CDP Climate Change Linde's comprehensive sustainable development and climate change disclosures provide transparent information needed by our shareholders and other stakeholders to understand the scope of these activities, including as it relates to our positions on climate change and the Paris Accords. Providing this information in a separate report produced annually as the Proposal requests will yield redundancy without increased value to shareholders. Our Board therefore does not believe that implementing this Proposal is necessary or would provide any meaningful additional benefit. As required under Irish Law, the resolution in respect of Proposal 6 is an ordinary resolution that requires the affirmative vote of a simple majority of the votes cast .

| The Board recommends that you vote “AGAINST” the shareholder proposal requesting