Cloud services provider Cloudflare has published its fifth annual Impact Report, in which the company announced it had achieved its key emissions reduction commitments.
The San Francisco-based firm, which has been in the news recently due to a couple of high-profile service outages, said in the report that it has offset 31,000 metric tonnes of CO2e through investment in verified projects.
‘Cloudflare successfully completed its commitment to offset or remove all emissions associated with powering its network from its launch up until its first renewable energy purchase in 2018,’ the company noted.
Other highlights from the report include Cloudflare’s efforts to defend democratic institutions from cyberattacks, equipping journalists and non-profits with more control over how AI uses their original content, and digital inclusion and economic development through improved access to AI.
‘Build a better internet’
“Our mission – to help build a better internet – is the driving force behind everything we do,” commented Matthew Prince, co-founder and CEO, Cloudflare.
“In 2025, we took critical steps to further that mission by making our products free and accessible to those who need them most, from journalists facing attacks to startups and developers around the world working on the next generation of AI-native applications. A principled, accessible, and sustainable internet is not just a goal; it’s our responsibility.”
Cyber security
Cloudflare said that it protected more than 3,000 online properties through its Project Galileo initiative, which provides free cyber security services to journalists, human rights organisations and humanitarian groups, while it also rolled out Bot Management and AI Crawl Control into its free services for Project Galileo participants, to address the use of online content by AI systems.
Elsewhere, Cloudflare highlighted its efforts to address election security, with its Athenian Project protecting election-related infrastructure across 33 US states and seven other countries.
Overall, Cloudflare invested more than $19 million in products and services during 2025 through its impact programmes. Read more here.
