## SUSTAINABILITY IS IN OUR NATURE— IT IMPACTS THE WAY WE VIEW AND OPERATE OUR BUSINESS. 

## IN OUR NATURE INTERNATIONAL PAPER 

Sustainability is integral to International Paper’s vision of becoming one of the best and most respected companies in the world. As the world’s largest user of wood fiber, our story begins in the forest and extends across the entire life cycle of our products. Sustainability touches every aspect of our business, from our employees and communities to our supply chain and manufacturing processes. We continuously strive to improve our efficiency and shrink our environmental footprint. To that end, we created a set of 12 voluntary sustainability goals that address water use and quality, fiber certification, employee safety, community involvement, solid waste, fiber efficiency, greenhouse gas and air emissions, energy efficiency, recycling and supply chain. Through our 58,000 dedicated team members worldwide, International Paper will continue to focus on generating deliberate, continuous and sustainable improvement, and applying what we learn across every area of the company. 

Globally, International Paper’s sustainability efforts continue to evolve. Through a continuous review  process, we identify opportunities that make us better; better at improving our environmental footprint, better at supporting the communities where we live and operate and better at ensuring the safety of our employees. 

Our initiatives also support our customers and our shareholders by improving our financial performance and mitigating risk; that’s good for everyone. 

In 2014 our work with internal and external stakeholders led us to focus on six key sustainability areas: safety, forests and ecosystem services, water use in our 

