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company focused on crafting a blueprint for a zero-emissions Internet, improving efficiencies of its
global network that already runs on 100 percent renewable energy, and launching new tools to help
other businesses build sustainability into their applications. Further, the report documents the
company’s initiatives to be a force for good by protecting vulnerable groups from cyberattack, providing free Internet connection services to underserved communities, and helping vaccine
distributors meet the high demand for appointments worldwide.

“Our mission is to help build a better Internet. Throughout the pandemic, it’s become abundantly clear
that we all have a responsibility to help where we can. That’s why we have been using Cloudflare’s
infrastructure, one of the largest networks in the world, to bring these efforts front and center,” said
Matthew Prince, co-founder and CEO of Cloudflare. “It is our belief that everyone should have access
to reliable, secure, and sustainable Internet. And we’re here to do our part to make that happen.”

Highlights of the 2021 Cloudflare Impact Report include how the company is:
Helping make the Internet more efficient
The fastest way to reduce the Internet’s greenhouse gas emissions is to use less energy. The Cloudflare
network was fundamentally engineered to be more efficient at every level: distributed design,
hardware, protocols, systems, and services. Alongside running on 100 percent renewable energy,

Cloudflare committed in 2021 to remove by 2025 all historical carbon its global network has emitted
since its founding. It also deployed new Arm® NeoverseTM-based processors to improve the efficiency
of how it serves Internet requests at the edge by more than 50 percent. Overall, the Cloudflare global
network is now securely processing 10X as many Internet requests for every watt consumed as it did
in 2013.

Beyond its own network, Cloudflare is helping its customers build sustainability into their own
applications. Now businesses can choose to intelligently route traffic through data centers powered
by renewable energy using Green Compute on Cloudflare Workers. Customers can also understand
and quantify their individual footprints and approximate savings from Cloudflare’s network in
comparison to Internet averages with the Carbon Impact Report. Furthermore, organizations that
deploy websites on Cloudflare Pages will automatically operate on renewable energy and receive a
green certification from The Green Web Foundation displayed through a verified badge.
Supporting more than 100 organizations in 10 countries to schedule approximately 100 million
vaccinations through Project Fair Shot
In February 2021, Cloudflare launched Project Fair Shot to provide free access to its Waiting Room
service to any government, hospital, pharmacy, or organization that is helping distribute COVID-19
vaccines. By relying on Cloudflare’s global infrastructure, Project Fair Shot can scale regardless of
demand without requiring organizations to dedicate limited IT resources to code changes.

Protecting 1,600 civil society organizations from an average of 53 million cyber attacks per day
Founded in 2014, Cloudflare’s Project Galileo provides free cybersecurity protection to qualified public
interest groups like artists, advocates, humanitarian organizations, and the voices of political dissent
that face DDoS and cyberattacks in disproportionate numbers. In 2021 alone, the number of
organizations participating increased more than 50% and Cloudflare blocked 53 million cyberattacks
per day on average. During the pandemic, Cloudflare also began offering its Cloudflare for Teams
product to help these organizations quickly and securely transition to remote work to ensure their
operations and work in promoting human rights, journalism, and community-based activities.
Providing civil society organizations with new tools to monitor Internet shutdowns
In 2021, Cloudflare announced a new program to help its Project Galileo civil society partners track
and document Internet shutdowns and protect democratic elections around the world from
cyberattacks. Radar Alerts alert civil society organizations when Cloudflare has detected significant
drops in traffic, typically associated with an Internet shutdown, with the hope that the information is
used to document, track, and help hold institutions accountable for these human rights violations.

Helping more communities access the Internet through Project Pangea
Launched in July 2021, Project Pangea provides free connection services to the Internet for rural,
nonprofit, and local community networks—particularly in underserved areas. Cloudflare can help
communities solve the network challenges of routing traffic to and from the Internet on behalf of the
local or community network, while also Cloudflare is a signatory of the UN Global Compact, and is committed to the UN Ten Principles.