2022 Environmental Social Governance (ESG) Report

ENVIRONMENT

WATER AND WASTE [303-1, 303-2, 303-3, 306-3]

on engaging stakeholders to manage water as a shared resource. Our practice is to properly discharge wastewater to municipal treatment facilities in accordance with local and national rules and standards. Most Cushman & Wakefield offices are leased and often co-located with other tenants which makes collecting complete and accurate water and waste data difficult. We continue to work to improve our global processes in addition to our data collection and aggregation across our environmental metrics.

Managing the environmental footprint of our offices includes monitoring and mitigating the waste generated by our leased office spaces and facilities. We seek to proactively manage this waste where feasible, with diversion efforts that include recycling and composting. In 2022, we generated a total of approximately 3,126 short tons of non-hazardous waste in our office buildings, of which we estimate a total of approximately 228 short tons were recycled or diverted from landfill disposal. We consume water through irrigation, cooling, and in-office kitchen areas and restrooms. While water consumption is not a material topic for Cushman & Wakefield based on our own materiality analysis, it is a topic that we monitor to be good environmental stewards (visit ESG Priorities section for more information about our material topics). In 2022, Cushman & Wakefield offices withdrew an estimated total of over 75 million gallons of water from third-party municipal suppliers and utilities. Given that Cushman & Wakefield has not identified water-related impacts as a material topic, we have not focused

Annual Waste Generation and Diversion

4,000

3,500

3,000

2,500

2,000

1,500

1,000

500

Waste Volume (short tons)

0

2019

2020

2021

2022

Landfill

Recycled

Annual Water Withdrawals

90,000,000

80,000,000

70,000,000

60,000,000

50,000,000

40,000,000

30,000,000

20,000,000 Water Withdrawal (gallons)

10,000,000

0

2019

2020

2021

2022

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