Company: LIN
Filing Date: 2025-04-30
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000950170-25-060925
Chunk: 91

Company: LINDE PLC
Filing Date: 2025-04-30
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 91
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 substantial public disclosures regarding its sustainability policies and efforts, including those related to climate change, including the 2050 climate neutrality ambition and other goals. These disclosures include, among others, (1) the annual Sustainable Development ("SD") Report, (2) Linde's detailed responses to the CDP Climate Change questionnaire, and (3) Linde’s Climate Transition Plan. These documents disclose key trade and other association memberships and lobbying/ advocacy activities, including those related to climate change. Disclosures for climate related membership organizations, as well as those for climate related lobbying and similar activities, provide information on the mission and purpose of membership organizations, climate related focus of the law, policy, or regulation, as well the alignment with the Paris Accords and congruence with Linde's climate transition strategy. While they do not specifically disclose alignment with Linde’s 2050 climate neutrality ambition or any other specific Linde climate goal, all such goals and the 2050 climate neutrality ambition are in furtherance of the Paris Accords generally and, therefore, the disclosures about lobbying and related activities’ alignment with the Paris Accords do, by extension, apply to Linde’s climate goals, and the 2050 climate neutralityambition.

These disclosures are available on Linde's public website at https://www.linde.com/sustainability/reporting-center. The chart on the following page summarizes Linda's public disclosures, and how they substantially meet what the Proposal requests.

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Proposal 6: Shareholder Proposal Requesting Annual Climate Lobbying Report

| Proposal Element                                                                                                                        | Linde Policies/Disclosures                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    | Linde Memberships                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    |
| Whether Linde’s lobbying and policy influence activities (both direct and indirect) align with Linde’s 2050 Carbon Neutrality ambition. | CDP Climate Change Section 4.11.1 requests disclosure on climate-impacting policies, laws, and/or regulations about which we have been engaging directly with policy makers.  As part of this disclosure, we indicate if the policy, law, or regulation is aligned with the Paris Accords goals generally, but not with Linde’s 2050 carbon neutrality ambition or other specific Linde climate goals. In the 2024 CDP, we presented four priority policy activities.  All of which are aligned with the Paris Accords.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       | For membership associations that are related to climate change and the like, we also indicate whether their climate position is consistent