WEYERHAEUSER SUPPORTS THE UNITED NATIONS SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS.
The United Nations asserts that businesses have a responsibility to contribute positively to the global effort to meet the challenges of the SDGs. Weyerhaeuser developed these SDG commitments through internal evaluation relevant to our industry and geography and in alignment with the WBCSD Forest Sector SDG Roadmap. In 2020, our board of directors confirmed the SDGs most strategic to our business.
We sustainably manage 10.5 million acres of timberlands in the United States and manage millions of acres of publicly owned land under provincial licenses in Canada. We recognize we have a critical role to play in creating a more just, equitable and sustainable world - and we are committed to demonstrating our positive impact. These SDGs also motivate and inspire many of our 3 by 30 Sustainability Ambitions.
THE GOAL
OUR CONTRIBUTION
Ensure access to affordable, reliable, | We focus on continual improvement of our own operational energy efficiency, generate renewable energy for our own |
operations and facilitate the generation of renewable energy by others. We fulfill more than 70% of our own energy needs | |
sustainable and modern energy for all | using renewable biomass from our manufacturing residuals. We also sell biomass to other clean energy providers and lease |
certain parts of our land for wind and solar energy production.
Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all
Safety is a core value at Weyerhaeuser and comes first in everything we do, and our newest core value - Inclusion - was added in 2019 and guides our work creating an inclusive environment for all employees across our company.
We provide living-wage jobs, promote equitable workplaces and prioritize leadership and development opportunities for our employees. For our 3 by 30 Sustainability Ambition: Rural Communities, we are working to ensure the rural communities where we operate are thriving places to work and live.
Innovation is fundamental to our success as a company. Our teams develop innovative scientific and technical solutions to | |
solve sustainable forestry challenges, improve safety and efficiency across our operations and safely produce a range of high- | |
Build resilient infrastructure, promote | quality wood products. |
inclusive and sustainable industrialization and | Our Natural Climate Solutionsbusiness has developed a carbon platform that supports long-term environmental |
foster innovation | |
sustainability, including forest carbon, carbon capture and sequestration (CCS), conservation and mitigation banking, and | |
renewable energy development. |
Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable
Wood is the ultimate green building material. Independent life-cycleassessmentreports substantiate the low energy intensity of wood products compared to other building materials.
Cities of the future will be more sustainablewhen they are built with wood. For our 3 by 30 Sustainability Ambition: Sustainable Homes, we are working toward a future where sustainable wood products from well-managed forests help provide sustainable homes for all.
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THE GOAL
OUR CONTRIBUTION
Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns
We are dedicated to sustainable management and efficient use of natural resources. We actively support the goal of enabling a more circular economy, both through the products we sell and the processes we employ to make them. Timber is a renewable resource, and wood is a long-lasting, sustainable building material.
We actively seek ways to maximize the utilization of our raw material by repurposingby-productsthat might otherwise be discarded as mill waste, using some by-productsto generate energyto power our mills, and selling other by-products to third parties for alternate uses.
Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts
Working forests and wood products are natural climate solutions, and wood products have lower embodied energy than other building materials. We also remove far more carbon from the atmosphere through our forests and wood products than we emit through our operations each year.
We are committed to meeting our near-term target to reduce Scope 1 and 2 GHG emissions by 42% by 2030. Not only do we have companywide goals to minimize the climate impact of our own operations, we develop climate solutions that help other companies reach their own net-zero goals. For our 3 by 30 Sustainability Ambition: Climate Solutions, we are collaborating with others to ensure forests serve as one of many solutions to mitigate the impacts of climate change.
Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss
We have practiced sustainable forestryfor more than a century and emphasize reforestation with species native to local
environments. Today, all our forests are certified to the Sustainable Forestry Initiative's® Forest Management Standard. Our forests support countless co-benefits, and we measure and report on more than 15 of the ecosystem servicesthat our
forests provide.
Strengthen the means of implementation and | We build coalitions and proactively engage with partners to define and enhance knowledge sharing and promote the role of |
the forest sector in addressing and accelerating global sustainable development. We aim to deepen understanding of best | |
revitalize the Global Partnership for | |
practices and to chart robust implementation pathways for our industry to contribute to achieving the Goals. | |
Sustainable Development | |
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