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Our website serves as our primary method to communicate our sustainability strategy, progress and performance, and we update it annually in accordance with internationally recognized sustainability reporting standards and practices. We also offer printable resources, a blogof case studies illustrating our commitment to sustainability and an opportunity to provide feedbackon our website. Annual updates to our sustainability reporting are reviewed and approved by our corporate law department.

GRI INDEX

The Global Reporting Initiative standards provide a globally recognized model for us to measure and share our performance. Our GRI Index includes general disclosures, as well as topic-specific disclosures such as our company profile, economic and environmental performance, our impacts on society and other disclosures relevant to our company.

We prepare our annual update to our sustainability websitein accordance with the GRI Standards.

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Title

Location

Additional Information

GRI 2: GENERAL DISCLOSURES

The organization and its reporting practices

2-1

Organizational

Weyerhaeuser Company

details

Ownership & legal form: Annual Report:Form

10-K

Seattle, Washington, USA

Our major operations are in the United States

and Canada.

Annual Report:10- 18

2-2

Entities

Annual Report:63

included in the

organization's

sustainability

reporting

2-3

Reporting

Annually

period,

January 1, 2022 - December 31, 2022

frequency and

April 28, 2023

contact point

Feedback

2-4

Restatements

Total environmental data values no longer

of information

include: Montana timberlands (sold in 2020),

149,000 acres of Oregon timberlands (sold in

2020) and 145,000 acres of timberlands in

Washington (sold in 2021).

2-5

External

In 2023, we obtained limited assurance for our

assurance

2020, 2021, and 2022 Scope 1, Scope 2

(location-based), Scope 2 (market-based),

combined Scope 1 & 2 (location-based) and

combined Scope 1 & 2 (market -based)

emissions from a third-party attestation

provider.

Assurance letter

Activities and workers

2-6

Activities, value

We are one of the world's largest private

Responsible Wood Fiber

chain and other

owners of timberlands. We own or control 10.6

business

million acres of timberlands in the U.S. and

relationships

manage an additional 14.1 million acres of

timberlands under long-term licenses in

Canada. We manage these timberlands on a

sustainable basis in compliance with

internationally recognized forestry standards.

As one of the largest manufacturers of high-

quality wood products, we operate 35 wood

products manufacturing facilities and 19

building materials distribution centers across

North America.

Our critical suppliers are those we depend on

for market success and the sustainable

operation of our company. These include direct

suppliers of wood and raw materials, as well as

maintenance and repair suppliers who support

machinery and technology used in our

manufacturing operations. We have

approximately 1,300 suppliers of wood, 15

suppliers of chemical additives, and 3,600

maintenance, repair and operations suppliers.

We select our Tier 1 suppliers using a rigorous

process that incorporates assessments of

technical expertise, cost, quality, service and

risk.

Our Wood Products business uses a

Procurement Risk Mitigation Matrix to assess

key risks for critical suppliers, including

business continuity, safety, financial, security

and reputation risk. These and other

sustainability risks are reviewed and used to

construct a supply strategy to mitigate potential

risks. Key elements of this strategy include

supplier choice, supplier diversification and

negotiation of various contractual elements. We

monitor performance using 10 carefully

selected key performance indicators (KPIs)

related to procurement and materials

management.

In 2022, purchased 80,800 acres of

timberlands in North and South Carolina.

Annual Report: 1-20

2-7

Employees

Data - Employees

Employee data is counted

Data - Diversity

on the last day of our

financial reporting period,

2-8

Workers who

We partner with ISN, a contractor and supplier

are not

information management company, to manage

employees

the assessment of the qualifications of contract

workers and suppliers. We currently have

1,377 non-employee worker companies who

are managed by ISN and meet our defined

ESG requirements to provide services.

Governance

2-9

Governance

Strong Governance

Structure

Board Oversight

Proxy Statement: 12-22

Committee Charters and Composition

2-10

Nomination and

Board of Directors - Governance Guidelines

selection of the

Proxy Statement: 24-30

highest

governance

body

2-11

Chair of the

Board of Directors

highest

governance

body

2-12

Role of highest

Our board, through its company direction-

governance

setting process, establishes companywide

body in

strategic direction for environmental, social and

overseeing the

governance issues as well as capital spending,

management of

business and financial matters.

impacts

Annually, our sustainability materiality

assessment is closely aligned with the

company' s enterprise risk management

process. In addition to the description in

Determining What Is Significant, our enterprise

risk management team works closely with

functional and operational leaders and other

staff across the company to assemble

information on risks and their potential

likelihood and impact to the company and its

stakeholders. This process includes reviewing

current business priorities, policies and

procedures; mitigation strategies; and

emerging trends.

After processing and analyzing the risks, the

enterprise risk team prepares a companywide

heat map and business unit heat maps. A heat

map is basically a visual representation of the

greatest risks to the company and their relative

ranking in terms of likelihood and impact. After

initial preparation, the team meets with senior

management to review the heat maps and

discuss any key risks and related content that

arose from initial leadership meetings.

After final approval from senior management,

the heat maps and any other relevant

enterprise-risk-related topics are presented to

the board of directors. After this final review,

and with the board of directors' approval, the

enterprise risk team shares this information

(heat maps and risks) with other extended

leadership to ensure risk ownership and

understanding throughout the company. At this

point, the heat maps become the basis for the

sustainability materiality assessment.

Board Oversight

Determining What Is Significant

2-13

Delegation of

Our Strategy

responsibility

Proxy Statement:3, 15 - 17

for managing

impacts

2-14

Role of the

The Governance and Corporate Responsibility

highest

Committee reviews progress against our

governance

sustainability strategy and goals. Our corporate

body in

law department reviews and approves the

sustainability

annual update to our sustainability report.

reporting

2-15

Conflicts of

Board of Directors - Governance Guidelines

interest

2-16

Communication

Integrity

of critical

Proxy Statement:22

See ourCode of Ethicsfor

concerns

more information on

reporting.

Governance and Corporate Responsibility

Committee Charter

2-17

Collective

Our Strategy

knowledge of

Governance and Corporate Responsibility

the highest

Committee

governance

Corporate Governance Guidelines

body

2-18

Evaluation of

Governance Highlights

the

Proxy Statement: 21

performance of

the highest

governance

body

2-19

Remuneration

Proxy Statement:32 - 66

policies

2-20

Process to

Proxy Statement:32 - 66

determine

remuneration

2-21

Annual total

compensation

Proxy Statement:62

ratio

Strategy, policies and practices

2-22

Statement on

CEO Message

sustainable

Our Strategy

development

strategy

2-23

Policy

Integrity

commitments

Code of Ethics

Supplier Code of Ethics

Human Rights Policy

Product Stewardship Policy

2-24

Embedding

Integrity

policy

Ensuring Disciplined Risk Management

commitments

2-25

Processes to

Integrity

remediate

negative

impacts

2-26

Mechanisms

Integrity

for seeking

advice and

Inside or outside our organization, anyone can

raising

confidentially and anonymously call our

concerns

EthicsLine at 800-716-3488 or use

Weyerhaeuser EthicsOnline.

2-27

Compliance

Data - Environmental Compliance

Non-compliance issues

with laws and

Data - Health & Safety

include late submittal of

regulations

Tier 2 report, exceedance

of NPDES permit limit,

exceedances of limit on

monitoring well, health

complaints and inspection

results.

2-28

Membership

Alberta Forest Products Association

associations

Alberta Trappers Association

American Wood Council

Arkansas Forest and Paper Council

Council of Forest Industries

Forest Products Association of Canada

Forest Resources Association, Inc.

Georgia Paper & Forest Products

Association

Mississippi Forest Products Council

National Alliance of Forest Owners

National Association of REITS

North Carolina Manufacturers Alliance

Oregon Business & Industry

Oregon Forest Industries Council

Oregonians for Food & Shelter

Treated Wood Council

US Industrial Pellet Association

Washington Forest Protection Association

Stakeholder Engagement

2-29

Approach to

Stakeholder Engagement

stakeholder

engagement

2-30

Collective

Data - Employee Representation

bargaining

agreements

Human Rights Policy

GRI 3 Material Topics

3-1

Process to

Ensuring Disciplines Risk Management

determine

Determining What Is Significant

material topics

3-2

List of material

Determining What Is Significant

topics

3-3

Management of

Sustainable Forestry

material topics

Climate Change

Natural Climate Solutions

Health & Safety

Certification

Biodiversity

Public Policy & Regulations

Economic Performance

Environmental Management

Policies and commitments related to material

topics:

Anti-BriberyPolicy

Anti-Discrimination,Anti-Harassment

and Equal Employment Opportunity

Policy

Chemical Management Policy

Environmental Policy

Health and Safety Policy

Human Rights Policy(and all

commitments contained within)

Product Stewardship Policy

Supplier Code of Ethics

Sustainable Forestry Policy

Threatened and Endangered Species

Policy

Wood Procurement Policy

Consortium for Research on

Renewable Industrial Materials

Actions taken to manage material topics:

Annually, we carry out an enterprise-wide risk

assessment to gather information from across

the organization to ensure we understand

where our greatest exposures reside and what

is material to our company. We review our

assessment and ensure the identified topics

are relevant, significant, and aligned with our

companywide enterprise risk assessment. We

regularly conduct internal audits to ensure

compliance with environmental, safety,

financial, disclosure and other regulations; our

own voluntary standards; and our company

policies. When noncompliance issues are

identified, we develop, implement and track

corrective action plans to ensure timely

resolution

200 ECONOMIC

GRI 201: ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE

201-1

Direct

Annual Report: 57-61

economic value

generated and

distributed

201-2

Financial

Climate Change

Costs associated with

implications

TCFD Alignment

these risks are not

and other risks

separated since they are

and

integrated into all aspects

opportunities

of our business.

due to climate

Annual Report:33

change

Defined benefit

plan obligations

201-3

and other

retirement

Annual Report: 66-67, 72-79

plans

GRI 203: INDIRECT ECONOMIC IMPACTS

203-2

Significant

Citizenship

indirect

Data: Economic Value

economic

impacts

Rural Communities

GRI 204: PROCUREMENT PRACTICES

204-1

Proportion of

Responsible Wood Fiber

A minimum of 30 percent

spending on

of our overall spend could

local suppliers

be considered from local

suppliers. This is our

approximate spend on logs

and wood fiber for our

mills.

GRI 205: ANTI-CORRUPTION

205-1

Operations

We are committed to obeying the law in all

assessed for

countries where we do business. We have

risks related to

adopted policies and standards to ensure that

corruption

we comply with the Foreign Corrupt Practices

Act and similar anti-corruption laws in each

country where we do business.

100 percent of our main businesses and staff

function groups are analyzed each year. We

disclose material risks in our periodic filings to

the SEC.

205-2

Communication

Integrity

and training

We regularly train employees on our anti-

about anti-

bribery policy. Our contracts and purchasing

corruption

policies require agents, contractors, suppliers,

policies and

service providers and joint-venture partners to

procedures

comply with our anti-bribery policy, as well as

all statutes and regulations regarding

corruption and bribery. We require 100 percent

of targeted employees and third-party

intermediaries to take anti-bribery training. The

target audience for anti-bribery training is all

senior management team members and their

direct reports; all salaried employees who

might be expected to interact with foreign

government officials (as broadly defined under

the FCPA, this includes any foreign

government official; any person acting on their

behalf, such as a consultant; and employees of

state-owned companies); U.S., Canadian and

international employees who work in

international sales, customer service with

international responsibilities, and trade/export;

and staff function employees in finance, human

resources, information technology or other

areas who have international responsibilities

and might be expected to interact with foreign

government officials. Leaders are also

encouraged to invite the sales agents,

distributors, consultants and other third parties

with whom they do business to attend the

leader-led sessions.

205-3

Confirmed

We disclose all material litigations and legal

incidents of

proceedings in our periodic filings to the SEC.

corruption and

actions taken

GRI 206: ANTI-COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR

206-1

Legal actions

Our employees are expected to comply with

for anti-

our company's core policy, as well as all U.S.

competitive

and other countries' laws, regulating unlawful

behavior,

anti-competitive behavior. Employees receive

antitrust, and

regular training and materials as part of our

monopoly

antitrust and competition law compliance

practices

program and are responsible for being aware of

the risk and costs of violating the laws and

complying with our guidelines for behavior. We

disclose all material litigation and legal

proceedings in our periodic filings to the SEC.

GRI 207: TAX

207-1

Approach to tax

In addition to providing employment and

fostering economic activity in the communities

in which we operate, we also support the

community through a variety of U.S. federal,

state and local tax payments, as well as federal

and provincial tax payments in Canada. Our

approach to tax planning is to develop tax-

efficient solutions that support the company's

operational initiatives and goals and minimize

our consolidated tax risks and liabilities. Our

corporate tax policies and strategy are rooted

in our company's Code of Ethics. We observe

all applicable tax rules and regulations in the

jurisdictions in which we have a tax presence.

We have a low tolerance for tax risk. We strive

to obtain certainty for our financial reporting

obligations and prevent any potential negative

impacts to our shareholders and our company's

reputation.

Our tax strategy includes:

Satisfying all income tax reporting and filing

obligations in a timely manner and in

accordance with laws and regulations

Mitigating tax risk through thoughtful

implementation and documentation,

proactive involvement in legislation, and

participation in current audit programs with

federal, state, and local governments

Ensuring sustainable, arms-length pricing

on intercompany transactions

For U.S. federal and state income tax

purposes, we have elected to be taxed as a

Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) and

continue to operate in a manner that qualifies

us for REIT status. As such, a significant

portion of our income is not subject to

corporate income tax, provided we distribute

our taxable income to our shareholders.

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