2023 Sustainability Report: Empire State Realty Trust

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SUSTAINABILITY OBJECTIVES AND STRATEGY

INTRODUCTION

ENVIRONMENTAL

SOCIAL

POLICIES AND TRANSPARENT REPORTING

APPENDICES

Industry Participation ESRT openly shares our advanced sustainability principles through industry cooperation, policy engagement, and

SVP and Director of Energy, Sustainability, and ESG, Dana Robbins Schneider, serves on the Mayor’s Sustainability Advisory Board, Real Estate Roundtable Sustainable Policy Advisory Committee, Urban Green Board of Directors, ULI Think Tank Committee, REBNY Sustainability Committee, and is a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Fellow since 2016. Dana served on the LL97 Technical Pathways for Commercial Buildings and Economic Working Group and served maximum terms on the USGBC LEED Steering Committee and USGBC Technical Advisory Group for IEQ. Our President, Christina Chiu, is a member of New York University’s and NYC Economic Development Corporation’s Decarbonization Finance Task Force.

NYC SUSTAINABILITY ADVISORY BOARD ESRT’s SVP and Director of Energy, Sustainability, and ESG, Dana Robbins Schneider was appointed to New York City’s Sustainability Advisory Board to help inform the city’s PlaNYC strategy. The board is made up of 26 members who will advise the city on a range of potential climate initiatives, which include energy, transportation, waste management, and expansion of NYC’s green space, among other areas of importance. 1 ESRT is the only REIT represented on the board. “I share the knowledge I have been privileged to gain in over 20 years in this field to drive continued partnership and effective policy, informed by successful practice, to deliver on Mayor Adams’s vision for a Net Zero New York City,” Dana said of her appointment. “My goal is to prove the technical and economic cases to decarbonize the built environment and deliver a healthy city, innovation, and job creation for all New Yorkers.”

collaborative implementation of effective practices. We actively engage in a host of industry organizations, working groups, partnerships, and initiatives to gather and share information that will shape sustainability-related industry standards and government policy. ESRT’s Chairman and CEO, Tony Malkin, is a board member of the Real Estate Roundtable and Chair of its Sustainability Policy Advisory Committee, and a member of the Climate Mobilization Advisory Board of the New York City Department of Buildings, the Urban Land Institute (ULI), the Board of Governors of the Real Estate Board of New York (REBNY), and the Partnership for New York City’s Innovation Council.

LL97 Advisory Board and Commercial Buildings Working Group Co-Chair

Board Member and Sustainability Policy Advisory Committee Chair

Sustainability Committee

Tenant Energy Optimization Program

Real Estate Sustainability Committee

Board of Directors

Steering Committee

Commitment Maker

DOE’s Better Climate Challenge and Better Buildings Initiative

Mayor’s Sustainability Advisory Board

Innovator

Judge

1 https://www.nyc.gov/office-of-the-mayor/news/895-22/mayor-adams-appoints-26-members-sustainability-advisory-board

EMPIRE STATE REALTY TRUST: 2023 SUSTAINABILITY REPORT

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