Acronyms
TCFD
Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures
From 2011 to 2022, Nest thermostats have helped customers cumulatively save more than 113 billion kWh of energy 28—more than double WHAT COUNTRY'S annual electricity consumption?
Portugal
EIE provides Tree Canopy Insights to how many cities?
more than 350 cities
On average, a Google-owned and -operated data center is more than how many times as energy efficient as a typical enterprise data center
1.5 times
In 2022, Google evolved its approach to sustainability governance by creating what?
Sustainability Focus Area (FA)
How many Environmental Reports has Google published?
8!
Our first ER was in 2016.
CNDCP
Climate Neutral Data Center Pact
Project Sunroof launched in which year?
2015
How many countries are included in our Flood Hub platform?
Hint: The platform covers 460 million people globally
80 countries
Google hosts “Egret Office Hours” at THIS ROOKERY so the public can safely see moments throughout the egret breeding cycle.
the Shorebird Way rookery
Which one of Google's senior leaders sits on the BSR board?
Our very own Kate Brandt!
In April 2021, Alphabet formally endorsed which framework?
The TCFD. We meet its recommendations through our CDP Climate Change Response.
ILFI
International Living Future Institute
In 2022, we achieved our goal to help 1 billion users make more sustainable choices, primarily through solutions offered across which three Google products?
Google Nest
Google Maps
Google Travel
Timelapse in Google Earth is a global, zoomable time-lapse video of the planet, providing a clearer picture of Earth’s dynamic change since what year?
1984
In 2022, Scope 3 emissions represented what percent of our carbon footprint?
75%
Google worked through Digital Europe and RE-Source to advocate for the inclusion of time-stamping for Guarantees of Origin in which EU directive?
Renewable Energy Directive
Alphabet's first ESG index, published in 2022, maps our public disclosures to which two reporting frameworks?
Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB)
Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD)
ISO
International Organization for Standardization
What is the name of the public and freely accessible methodology we created for predicting the per-passenger CO2 emissions produced by a flight?
Travel Impact Model (TIM)
The Freshwater Ecosystems Explorer helps member states provide data for which SDG indicator?
SDG 6.6.1: Change in the extent of water-related ecosystems over time
In 2022, what percent of our freshwater withdrawals came from regions with low water stress?
82%
What was Alphabet's rank in Corporate's Knight's 2022 100 Most Sustainable Companies?
#37
In the environmental reporting frameworks index in our 2023 ER, we've flagged where elements of our WHAT can be found throughout the report?
Climate transition plan 🌡️
WRI / WBCSD GHGP
World Resources Institute /
World Business Council for Sustainable Development
Greenhouse Gas Protocol
Eco-friendly routing in Maps is estimated to have helped prevent HOW MANY carbon emissions from launch through 2022?
Hint: This is equivalent to taking approximately 250,000 fuel-based cars off the road for a year
more than 1.2 million metric tons
Since 2017, Google has been a founding technology partner in this collaboration between seven leading conservation organizations.
Wildlife Insights
The aluminum in the phone enclosures of Pixel 5, 6, 6 Pro, 7, and 7 Pro is made with 100% recycled content.
This reduces the carbon footprint of the aluminum portion of the enclosures by over what percept compared to 100% primary aluminum?
35%
What is the name of the organization with which Google has partnered closely since 2019 to kick off the implementation of our water strategy?
Bonneville Environmental Foundation (BEF)
Since 2014, Alphabet has been included on CDP’s Climate Change A-list how many times?
8
(soon to be 9!)