Weyerhaeuser

Lobbying
Weyerhaeuser discloses a list of trade associations of which it is a member wherever it operates.

Stakeholder engagement
The company discloses its process for engaging with stakeholder groups, including frequency and channels, beyond its materiality assessment or an equivalent.

Sustainability strategy and accountability
The company discloses its process for identifying and prioritising its most relevant sustainability impacts as well as the outcome of this process, in relation to its sustainability strategy and reports consistently against all its targets.

Ecosystem conversion and restoration
The company has a commitment to minimise ecosystem conversion, and discloses some activities to minimise ecosystem conversion.

Furthermore, the company discloses details and outcomes of ecosystem restoration projects in areas affected by its own operations or by its suppliers, as well as efforts beyond these areas (e.g. through compensation or offset mechanisms).

GHG emissions
The company has set time-bound targets to reduce its scope 1 and 2 emissions and these targets are aligned with a 1.5-degree trajectory. Additionally, it reduces its scope 3 emissions compared to the previous year.

Resource exploitation and circularity performance
Weyerhaeuser discloses which organisms it directly exploits for commercial uses, including wild animal and plant species.

Solid and air pollution
The company reports regularly on air quality parameters of emissions of harmful air pollutants.

Water
The company discloses that none of its sites showed a high-water risk and it does not withdraw water from water-stressed areas. Furthermore, the company demonstrates reducing water withdrawal in its own operations.

Indigenous Peoples’ and land rights
The company is committed to respect Indigenous Peoples’ rights.

Act ethically
The company has a policy prohibiting bribery and corruption. It also discloses a public commitment to protect personal data and its approach to lobbying and political engagement in a policy statement.

Provide and promote decent work
The company has a publicly available policy statement that unequivocally commits to respecting the health and safety of its workers, underscoring its dedication to employee well-being. Moreover, the company takes an inclusive approach to its workforce by disclosing the proportion of its total direct operations workforce for each employee category by race or ethnicity.

Additionally, the company’s commitment to diversity extends to its board of directors, as indicated on its website. Out of the 9 board members, 4 are female, showcasing a commendable 44.44% female representation on the board.

Respect human rights
The company has a publicly available policy statement committing it to respect the ILO core labour rights. Moreover, the company demonstrates its dedication to accountability by indicating that it has established a human rights grievance mechanism accessible to all external stakeholders who may be adversely impacted by the company.

Lobbying
The company has an opportunity to disclose a clear and detailed framework for assessing alignment of its trade associations with its sustainability targets and to report (potential) misalignments.

Stakeholder engagement
The company has an opportunity to disclose an overview of the issues raised during its stakeholder engagement activities.

Sustainability strategy and accountability
While the company discloses some sustainability objectives/targets including climate, there is an opportunity to establish group-wide targets for the most material parts of its value chain. Furthermore, the company discloses a remuneration policy related to climate. However, it could link this policy to improvement in specific nature-related objectives and social issues. Lastly, although it states that the board of directors has expertise in social inclusion and climate, it has an opportunity to disclose whether its highest governance body has expertise with respect to the company’s most material sustainability topics.

Ecosystem conversion and restoration
No evidence was found regarding the company’s efforts to avoid ecosystem conversion, including deforestation, or promote restoration. The company has an opportunity to develop a strategy and publicly report on specific, time-bound targets.

GHG emissions
The company should reduce its scope 1 and 2 emissions and should report progress against its scope 1 and 2 targets. Furthermore, it should set time-bound targets to reduce its scope 3 emissions and report progress against it. Crucially, its scope 3 targets need to align with a 1.5-degree trajectory.

Impact and dependencies assessment
While the company discloses conducting biodiversity impact assessments, there is no evidence of it providing sufficient details regarding the assessment methodology and results, both within its own operations and the supply chain. Furthermore, the company does not disclose any assessments related to its dependencies on nature within its own operations or upstream business relationships.

Invasive species
The company has not identified any activities that could lead to the introduction of invasive alien species in its own operations.

Key areas and species
The company has an opportunity to disclose locations within or adjacent to areas important for biodiversity, both in its own operations and its supplier locations. It could also disclose existing species populations existing in or adjacent to both its own and its suppliers’ locations, as well as the conservation status of species identified at its own sites according to national and international lists.

Resource exploitation and circularity performance
The company has an opportunity to disclose all its inputs according to an international standard, and to report quantitatively on its group-wide circularity performance.

Solid and air pollution
The company should commit to avoid developing or marketing new chemicals or products with SVHC (substance of very high concern) properties, as well as work on reducing the production of hazardous substances and waste.

Water
The company has an opportunity to further improve water withdrawal by setting a time-bound target and engaging with suppliers. The company does not disclose relevant information on water pollution or rights to water in its operations or supply chains.

Indigenous Peoples’ and land rights
The company does not disclose its processes to identify and recognize the rights of Indigenous Peoples when activities in its own operations may impact their rights or describes how it obtains Indigenous Peoples’ free, prior and informed consent.

Safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment
The company has an opportunity to commit to respecting local communities’ right to a safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment, and to zero tolerance for acts of violence, threats, intimidation or judicial harassment committed against land and environmental rights defenders. Moreover, it should track its actual or potential negative impacts on the health of local communities.

Act ethically
The company could describe the process for identifying its bribery and corruption risks and impacts in specific locations or activities covering its own operations. Additionally, it can take a proactive step by including anti-bribery and anti-corruption clauses in its contracts with business relationships. While the company has established a mechanism for stakeholders to raise bribery and corruption concerns, it could ensure that this mechanism is accessible to all stakeholders.

Furthermore, the company can bolster its transparency efforts by disclosing a publicly available policy statement specifying that it does not make political contributions. Additionally, disclosing its expenditures on lobbying activities and the requirement for third-party lobbyists to comply with its lobbying and political engagement policy would provide stakeholders with a more comprehensive view of its political activities and commitments to ethical lobbying practices

Provide and promote decent work
The company could disclose quantitative information on the health and safety of its workers, and extend its commitment throughout its supply chain by disclosing a policy statement that expects its suppliers to commit to respecting the health and safety of their workers. It can also share how it monitors the health and safety performance of its suppliers.

In terms of fair labor practices, the company can disclose a time-bound target for paying all workers a living wage or announcing its achievements in this regard. To provide clarity on its standards, the company should also disclose how it determines a living wage for the regions where it operates and how it actively supports the payment of a living wage by its suppliers. Additionally, the company can make a public commitment to gender equality and women’s empowerment and set time-bound targets to drive meaningful change in this area.

Respect human rights
The company could enhance its disclosure efforts by making the results of its human rights risk assessment public. It expects its suppliers to respect specific workers’ rights, but it has an opportunity to reference all the ILO fundamental rights at work in its supplier requirements. To further strengthen its human rights initiatives, the company has an opportunity to provide detailed descriptions of the processes it employs to identify human rights risks and impacts in specific locations or activities, both within its own operations and across its supply chain.

Moreover, the company could describe the process it uses to assess and identify what it considers to be its salient human rights issues, fostering a deeper understanding of its priorities in this area. Lastly, the company could demonstrate its commitment to addressing human rights issues by disclosing a global system aimed at acting on, preventing, or mitigating its salient human rights issues.