Climate Change Data

Environmental Metrics

ESG Focus Areas

• Privacy
• Security
• Reliability
• Human Rights
• Transparency
• Ethics and Compliance
• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusivity (DEI)
• Renewable Energy
• Carbon Emissions Reduction

Environmental Achievements

• Commitment to 100% renewable energy for operations.
• Commitment to removing or offsetting all historic GHG emissions by 2025.
• Deployment of ARM-based CPUs in edge servers, processing 57% more Internet requests per watt of energy.
• Overall network processing 10x as many Internet requests per watt consumed compared to 2013.

Social Achievements

• Launched Project Fairshot, helping over 100 organizations schedule approximately 100 million COVID-19 vaccinations.
• Launched Project Galileo, providing free high-level cybersecurity services to journalists, humanitarian groups, and civil rights organizations.
• Launched Project Pangea, providing free internet connection services to underserved communities.
• Published first comprehensive international human rights policy.
• Achieved ISO/IEC 27701:2019 privacy certification.
• Donated $3M+ in services through Project Galileo in 2021.
• Donated $5M+ in services to state and local governments through the Athenian Project in 2021.

Governance Achievements

• Launched Cloudflare Impact, a comprehensive corporate responsibility and ESG initiative.
• Held first Impact Week, resulting in 16 new initiatives.
• Published first comprehensive international human rights policy.
• All employees will receive annual training on human rights policy starting in 2022.
• Became a full member of the Global Network Initiative (GNI).

Climate Goals & Targets

Environmental Challenges

• Wasted web crawler traffic (estimated 53%).
• Malicious bots consuming resources and generating emissions.

Mitigation Strategies

• Working with Microsoft and Yandex on a new protocol to improve search engine efficiency.
• Launched Bot Fight Mode to mitigate malicious bot activity and support tree planting projects through donations based on the number of bots stopped.

Supply Chain Management

Responsible Procurement

• Screening of suppliers, resellers, and partners at onboarding to mitigate corruption risks.

Climate-Related Risks & Opportunities

Reporting Standards

Frameworks Used: GRI Standards: Core option, SASB Standards

Certifications: ISO/IEC 27701:2019

Third-party Assurance: Sustainable Business Consulting (SBC) - Limited assurance for GHG emissions

Sustainable Products & Innovation

• Green Compute with Cloudflare Workers

Environmental Metrics

ESG Focus Areas

• Environmental
• Social
• Governance

Environmental Achievements

• Powered operations with 100% renewable energy
• Completed analysis of historical network footprint (31,284 MT CO2e) and made first offset purchase (6,060 MT CO2e)
• Implemented sustainability principles in hardware design, procurement, servicing, and decommissioning
• 95% of data centers covered by agreements to resell or recycle decommissioned equipment (35% resold or recycled in the past 12 months)

Social Achievements

• Protected Ukrainian government institutions, civil society organizations, and citizens from cyberattacks at no cost
• Provided free services to over 2,150 journalists, humanitarian groups, and human rights organizations through Project Galileo
• Launched Turnstile, a free CAPTCHA alternative
• Improved Cloudflare dashboard accessibility
• Named to Newsweek’s 100 Most Loved Workplaces 2022

Governance Achievements

• Published semiannual Transparency Report on government requests for information
• Maintained various privacy and security compliance certifications (ISO 27001, ISO 27701, ISO 27018, SOC 2 Type II, PCI DSS 3.2.1, C5:2020)
• Completed companywide human rights training
• Implemented a new Third Party Code of Conduct

Climate Goals & Targets

Environmental Challenges

• Cyberattacks on Ukrainian infrastructure
• Scope 3 emissions cataloging
• Addressing historical emissions
• Low adoption of RPKI to secure internet routing

Mitigation Strategies

• Provided free services and support to Ukrainian government and infrastructure providers
• Working on cataloging Scope 3 emissions
• Offsetting historical emissions through verified REDD+ project and renewable energy purchases
• Participating in AS112 project to improve DNS lookup reliability

Supply Chain Management

Responsible Procurement

• Third Party Code of Conduct

Climate-Related Risks & Opportunities

Reporting Standards

Frameworks Used: GRI, SASB, UNGC

Certifications: ISO 27001, ISO 27701, ISO 27018, SOC 2 Type II, PCI DSS 3.2.1, C5:2020

Third-party Assurance: Sustainable Business Consulting

UN Sustainable Development Goals

• SDG 4
• SDG 5
• SDG 7
• SDG 9
• SDG 13
• SDG 14
• SDG 15
• SDG 16

Cloudflare's initiatives contribute to these goals through various programs and commitments detailed in the report.

Sustainable Products & Innovation

• Turnstile

Awards & Recognition

• Webby Award for Project Fair Shot

Environmental Metrics

ESG Focus Areas

• Environmental
• Social
• Governance

Environmental Achievements

• Migrating from on-premises hardware to Cloudflare’s cloud-based services can decrease related carbon emissions between 78% and 96% (according to an independent study).

Social Achievements

• Launched Project Cybersafe Schools, providing free cybersecurity services to under-resourced K-12 public school districts in the US.
• Continued Project Galileo, protecting over 2,400 civil society and nonprofit internet properties from cyberattacks.
• Partnered with CyberPeace Institute to enhance security for small development and humanitarian organizations.

Governance Achievements

• Committed to setting near-term companywide emissions reduction targets in line with climate science with the SBTi.
• Completed its first self-assessment of its human rights practices related to the GNI Principles.

Climate Goals & Targets

Environmental Challenges

• War in Ukraine, terrorist attacks, increased cyberattacks, internet shutdowns, and growing regulations threatening an open internet.

Mitigation Strategies

• Providing free cybersecurity services to vulnerable organizations and communities.
• Working with partners to share threat intelligence and improve internet security.
• Advocating for policies that support an open and interconnected internet.

Supply Chain Management

Responsible Procurement

• Third Party Code of Conduct

Climate-Related Risks & Opportunities

Reporting Standards

Frameworks Used: GRI, SASB, UN Global Compact

Certifications: ISO 14064, ISO 27001, ISO 27701, ISO 27018, PCI DSS, SOC 2 Type II, C5

Third-party Assurance: Shift Advantage

Awards & Recognition

• Newsweek’s 100 Most Loved Workplaces 2023 (#55)

Environmental Metrics

ESG Focus Areas

• Sustainability
• Privacy
• Human Rights
• Governance
• Diversity & Inclusion

Environmental Achievements

• Cloudflare powers its operations with 100% renewable energy.
• Cloudflare’s 12th-generation servers are 63% more energy efficient and have a 145% performance increase.

Social Achievements

• Cloudflare mitigated over 14.5 million DDoS attacks.
• Cloudflare’s Project Galileo protected 111+ internet properties for 54 civil society partners.
• Cloudflare’s Project Cybersafe Schools protected 210K+ students and staff members in 131 school districts.
• Cloudflare’s Athenian Project provided free cybersecurity services to 33 states during the 2024 election cycle.

Governance Achievements

• Cloudflare maintains several certifications including PCI DSS 4.0, ISO 27001:2013, ISO 27701:2019, and FedRAMP Moderate.
• Cloudflare publishes a semiannual Transparency Report on government requests for user information.
• All Cloudflare employees complete annual training on bribery and corruption.

Climate Goals & Targets

Environmental Challenges

• Increased DDoS attacks (49% increase from previous quarter, 55% over the same period in 2023).
• Connection tampering observed globally, particularly in Turkmenistan, Russia, Iran, and China.
• Rise of bad bots impacting internet performance and security.

Mitigation Strategies

• Cloudflare provides unmetered and unlimited DDoS protection for free.
• Cloudflare developed and published research on connection tampering.
• Cloudflare uses Bot Fight Mode and Super Bot Fight Mode to mitigate bot traffic and donates to reforestation projects to offset increased CPU usage.

Supply Chain Management

Responsible Procurement

• Third Party Code of Conduct

Climate-Related Risks & Opportunities

Reporting Standards

Frameworks Used: GRI, SASB, GHG Protocol, ISO 14064

Certifications: PCI DSS 4.0, ISO 27001:2013, ISO 27701:2019, FedRAMP Moderate, C5:2020, ISO 27018:2019, SOC 2 Type II

Third-party Assurance: Shift Advantage

Awards & Recognition

• Newsweek’s 100 Most Loved Workplaces (#55)
• Reuters Events Sustainability Awards Social Impact Award Finalist for Cloudflare’s Project Galileo
• Best Companies to Work for in Technology in Portugal (Teamlyzer)