2022 Environmental Social Governance (ESG) Report

INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY In 2022, our Technology & Data Solutions

The following key products, partnerships and offerings have been added to our pipeline as the result of the approach described above: CFP Green Buildings CFP Green Buildings (CFP) is a tool to enable real estate owners and investors worldwide to reduce carbon emissions. Retrofitting existing commercial property for energy efficiency is a critically important goal. To help clients reduce carbon emissions and meet net zero goals, Cushman & Wakefield launched C&W Green Buildings, a proprietary digital software assessment tool that identifies custom decarbonization, retrofitting and cost-savings opportunities for real estate owners and investors. Created through an exclusive partnership with CFP, a consultancy with a mission of making all buildings and homes more sustainable, the tool offers Cushman & Wakefield clients a fast, cost-effective, more accurate and auditable way to estimate energy consumption and create a roadmap to greener real estate assets. Clients can request a demo to use the Green Buildings tool independently or as part of related Cushman & Wakefield services. Inveniam With a continued commitment to client needs, Cushman & Wakefield's strategic alliance with Inveniam leverages a proprietary data management platform to assess the value of real estate assets more quickly and efficiently with trust and transparency. Using the Inveniam.io data operating system and its patented blockchain technology, Cushman & Wakefield is enhancing how asset data is credentialed, extracted, structured and delivered to clients—providing better data quicker and creating a framework for real-time global trading and more transparent real estate transactions. Jupiter Intelligence Jupiter is a trusted leader in climate risk analytics for organizations looking to strengthen their climate resilience. With forward-focused, rigorous methodologies, and analytics delivered by some of the best scientists in the industry, Jupiter turns

organization optimized its operating model to strengthen the link between our technologists and our clients and employees. A Business Information Officer is now accountable for the holistic technology and digital experience in each business area (Services, Advisory and Enterprise). These Business Information Officer organizations and our governance structure ultimately determine our capacity and our approach to key technology partnerships guided by a two-pronged approach: 1. Discovery: Our Global Innovation Hub and service line leadership collaborate to discover and assess new opportunities, helping to ensure they are aligned against the priorities of our clients and our firm’s strategic goals. 2. Growth: Once we decide to pursue a technology solution, the Global Innovation Hub focuses on deployment, in order to ensure it is scalable and that our professionals are equipped to implement the solution. We seek to ensure that all deployments are trackable to help guide future partnership and implementation decisions. We have key strategic partnerships with the following: > Salesforce: Leveraging Salesforce's Net Zero Cloud globally for Cushman & Wakefield to efficiently track, analyze and report reliable ESG data and insights. > Microsoft: Working to reduce our overall IT energy consumption and related GHG emissions by migrating on-premises applications, workloads and databases to Microsoft Azure and Microsoft 365; using the Emissions Impact Dashboard to assess the emissions and reductions related to using these services and platforms and to make data driven decisions about our cloud usage.

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