Dow Inc. releases its INtersections Progress Report

Midland, MI – Dow Inc. released its INtersections Progress Report, demonstrating how the Company’s continued focus and actions align to its ambition and goal to deliver value growth; best-in-class performance; and innovative, sustainable solutions to address global challenges.

Dow’s INtersections Progress Report outlines the performance and management of its commitment to deliver long-term value for all of the Company’s stakeholders while also addressing environmental, social and governance priorities. The integrated, comprehensive report continues a total 19 consecutive years of voluntary sustainability reporting and five years of inclusion, diversity and equity reporting.

“Guided by our ambition, we are using our expertise, products, technologies and partnerships to meet the evolving needs of our customers while leading the transition to a more sustainable and inclusive future,” said Dow Chair and CEO Jim Fitterling. “Every day we are becoming a stronger, more competitive and future-ready company that is well-positioned to continue delivering value to our customers, employees, shareholders and communities.”

Key highlights from the report, which is based on full-year 2022 data, include:

Advancing Dow’s strategy to Decarbonize and Grow, while achieving carbon neutrality by 2050.

Reached significant milestones toward the planned construction of the world’s first net-zero Scope 1 and 2 carbon emissions integrated ethylene cracker and derivatives site, including a preliminary investment decision in 2022. Progress continues with Fluor contracted to provide front-end engineering and design, procurement and construction management services; and Linde was selected as the industrial gas partner to supply clean hydrogen and nitrogen. To be located at Dow’s Fort Saskatchewan site in Alberta, Canada, the project is part of Dow’s path to increase its underlying earnings by more than $3 billion per year while also reducing its global CO2 emissions by 30% by 2030 versus a 2005 baseline.
Outlined detailed carbon reduction plans for each of Dow’s 25 highest carbon-emitting sites, which collectively account for approximately 95% of its Scope 1 and 2 carbon emissions.
Announced a joint development agreement with X-energy to install the first grid-scale advanced nuclear reactor for Dow’s UCC1 Seadrift Operations manufacturing site in Texas. The project is expected to provide the site with safe, reliable, zero-carbon emissions power and steam.
Partnering across value chains to build materials ecosystems to collect, reuse or recycle plastic waste and meet customers’ increasing demands for more sustainable and circular products.

Expanded our Stop the Waste sustainability target to Transform the Waste, with a new commitment to commercialize 3 million metric tons of circular and renewable solutions annually by 2030.
Expanded partnership with Mura Technology to construct multiple world-scale advanced recycling facilities in the United States and Europe, with the goal of collectively adding as much as 600 kilotons of annual recycling capacity by 2030.
Partnered to minimize and manage plastic pollution, including a collaboration with WM to address hard-to-recycle plastic films by enabling them to be placed directly into residential curbside recycling.
Taking action to drive inclusion, diversity and equity and create meaningful social impact.

Achieved best-in-class employee resource group (ERG) participation, with 57.3% of employees participating in at least one of the Company’s 10 ERGs. Dow’s annual employee engagement survey shows ERG participants have 13 percentage points higher overall job satisfaction than non-ERG participants.
Surpassed Dow’s target for certified diverse supplier spend by 12%, achieving approximately $275 million globally and retaining 84% of diverse suppliers.
Leveraged our people and partnerships to advance community-driven solutions around the world, resulting in 75,000 people benefitting from increased access to community resources; 40,000 students improving academic performance or earning credentials; and 136,000 people gaining access to safe, affirming and inclusive environments.
Enhancing governance, transparency and accountability.

Maintained Dow’s clear link to pay-for-performance by adding a quantifiable carbon emissions reduction metric to its long-term incentive compensation program, and significantly advanced Scope 3 reporting methodology as the Company works toward setting specific targets.
Continued the Company’s focus on Board refreshment and expertise – electing one new Director in 2022 – and outpacing the S&P 500 for board diversity.
Enhanced structural oversight and responsibility for environmental, social and governance progress and enterprise risk management within Board Committee charters.
The 2022 INtersections Progress Report includes disclosures prepared in accordance with the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Standards and the Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol. The report also includes disclosures aligned with the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD), Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB), and World Economic Forum (WEF) Stakeholder Capitalism Metrics. Dow engaged Deloitte & Touche, LLP to perform a review engagement to obtain limited assurance on management’s assertion related to disclosures presented in accordance with the 2021 GRI Sustainability Reporting Standards as of, and for the year ended, December 31, 2022, and related to Scopes 1, 2 and 3 emissions presented in accordance with the GHG Protocol Corporate Accounting and Reporting Standards under its Corporate Standards for the year ended December 31, 2022.