Sustainability Bond
Impact Report
2021
Table of contents
Introduction
3 Overview
5 Our sustainability approach
About our sustainability bonds
8 Our sustainability bonds
- Project selection and reporting
- Looking ahead
Featured projects and impact
- Energy efficiency
- Clean energy
- Green buildings
- Clean transportation
- Circular economy and design
- Affordable housing
- Commitment to racial equity
- Support for small businesses and COVID-19 crisis response
Appendix
- Allocation by bond
- Impact by bond
- Endnotes
Alphabet's Sustainability Bond Impact Report 2021 | 1 |
Introduction
Alphabet's Sustainability Bond Impact Report 2021 | 2 |
Alphabet has allocated
$3.47billion
(61%) in Sustainability Bond net proceeds.
Overview
At Google, operating our business in an environmentally and socially responsible way has been a core value since our founding in 1998. We build our products and services to improve the lives of people all over the world. As part of this, we recognize Google's tremendous responsibility to address some of the most pressing challenges of our time-climate change, housing, racial and economic inequity, and the global COVID-19 pandemic. We've made a number of significant commitments and major investments in these areas.
In August 2020, we issued $5.75 billion in sustainability bonds, leading the way with the largest sustainability or green bond issuance by any company in history. The net proceeds fund new and ongoing projects that are environmentally or socially responsible and enable investors to join us in tackling critical issues. We believe that these investments benefit our communities, employees, and stakeholders, and they are an important part of fulfilling Google's mission and goal of creating value over the long term.
Sustainability bonds are an emerging asset class, and we are encouraged that our issuance last year contributed to the growth of this market. Sustainability bond issuance by U.S. corporations grew more than 300% year over year in the first half of 2021, exceeding the total for all of 2020.1
One year later, we are pleased to report that we've put $3.47 billion (61%) of the net proceeds to use, supporting our efforts across all eight of our green and social Eligible Project categories. This inaugural Impact Report covers the allocation to Eligible Projects that incurred expenditures or to which capital was contractually committed between January 1, 2019, and December 31, 2020. Our report also covers the associated expected sustainability impact of Eligible Projects included in our allocation (see Figure 1).
Alphabet's Sustainability Bond Impact Report 2021 | Introduction | 3 |
Figure 1
ALLOCATION OF NET PROCEEDS AND EXPECTED ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL BENEFITS
Total allocation
$3.47 billion
(61% allocated)
Environmental
ENERGY EFFICIENCY | CLEAN ENERGY | GREEN BUILDINGS |
$640 million | $1.28 billion | $1.25 billion |
1.08 PUE | 14.9 million tCO e | 415,000 m2 |
2 | of LEED Platinum certified | |
at Belgium data | emissions avoided by | |
center campus | renewable energy PPAs | office space |
CLEAN | CIRCULAR ECONOMY | |
TRANSPORTATION | AND DESIGN |
$15 million | $4 million |
3,600 ports | 1.1 million kg |
installed for EV charging | of pre-consumer food waste |
prevented in cafés |
Social
AFFORDABLE | COMMITMENT TO | SUPPORT FOR SMALL BUSINESSES |
HOUSING | RACIAL EQUITY | AND COVID-19 CRISIS RESPONSE |
$70 million | $81 million | $133 million |
1,800 units | 2,700 loans | 13,500 loans |
of affordable housing enabled | to small and medium-sized | to small and |
businesses focused on | medium-sized businesses | |
the Black community |
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