The science is clear: The world must act now if we’re going to avert the worst consequences of climate change. We are committed to doing our part. We were the first major company to become carbon neutral in 2007. We were the first major company to match our energy use with 100 percent renewable energy in 2017. We operate the cleanest global cloud in the industry, and we’re the world’s largest corporate purchaser of renewable energy.

While Google is the world’s largest corporate purchaser of renewable energy, we’re also taking action on climate change by minimizing the amount of energy we need to use in the first place. For more than a decade, we’ve worked to make our data centers as energy efficient as possible.

Electricity is the fuel that enables Google to serve our billions of users’ needs, around the world and around the clock. Yet in many places the energy we use is still produced in ways that result in carbon emissions. That’s why we’ve long strived to lead the way to a carbon-free future.