2023 Sustainability Report Summary

INTRODUCTION OUR CLIENTS OUR PLANET OUR PEOPLE AND COMMUNITIES OUR BUSINESS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

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Scope 3 Emissions – Category 11

TARGET #2: ENGAGING OUR CLIENTS TO SET SCIENCE-BASED TARGETS Our goal is for science-based targets to be set throughout our value chain. We prioritize working with our clients to set ambitious environmental goals. With the majority of our emissions coming from our property and facilities management services, this partnership with our clients is a crucial component in our ability to reduce and mitigate our environmental impacts across our value chain. To date, 32% of our clients have set science-based targets. We encourage our clients to align with the SBTi goals and commitments and will further enhance our client engagement activities through the Net Zero Cloud platform. This new data-gathering system significantly improves our ability to measure, monitor and guide our clients’ targets and progress on their climate goals. We measure the success of our engagement through client retention, expansion of scopes of work, the development of new client relationships, and energy and climate mitigation achievements/certifications resulting from our work. For those clients falling under the operational boundary of our SBTi commitment for engagement, we are actively tracking emissions associated with managing their properties and incorporating factors unique to each client, their facilities and properties, and their geographies.

TARGET #3: REACHING NET-ZERO EMISSIONS ACROSS OUR VALUE CHAIN We expect our efforts to reduce our Scope 1 and 2 emissions should progressively lead us toward our net-zero target as it relates to our own operations. The accelerating engagement with suppliers, partners and clients across our value chain meanwhile, is intended to move Scope 3 emissions along the path to our end goal. We monitor the Scope 3 GHG emissions across our value chain. Pursuant to the GHG Protocol, the Scope 3 categories we track and report include: > Category 1 – Purchased goods and services > Category 2 – Capital goods > Category 3 – Fuel and energy-related activities > Category 5 – Waste generated in operations > Category 6 – Business travel (air and rail) > Category 7 – Employee commuting > Category 11 – Use of sold products and services > Category 15 – Investments We expect our suppliers and subcontractors to operate and conduct their business with all necessary considerations for environmental responsibility. To that end, we have established protocols and guidelines outlining our requirements for a supplier relationship with Cushman & Wakefield. For more information, please consult our Global Vendor/Supplier Integrity Policy and our Global Code of Business Conduct. To understand our Scope 3 emissions, it is important to note that Category 11 — Use of sold products and services — accounts for 96% of the total. Therefore, the key to meeting our net-zero targets lies in working with our clients on the emissions in their properties. In 2023, a 37% reduction in Category 11 emissions drove our overall Scope 3 reduction of 36% as compared to 2022. 11

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As we work to update our existing science-based targets (as required by SBTi every five years), we plan to recalculate and restate previous years’ emissions figures to account for changes in improving calculation methodology and/or determining what client-related data is within our operational boundary.

In 2023, we reduced our total Scope 3 GHG emissions by 5.3M CO 2 e from the previous year, equivalent to a 36% decrease, driven by a 37% reduction in Category 11 emissions. This decrease can partially be attributed to an update in 2023, where a certain client building type was excluded from our operational boundary for the first time.

11 For more information on how we measure our emissions reduction progress, including calculation methodology and scope of third-party verification of relevant emissions data, see the “Environmental Data” section of the Appendix.

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