2019 Sustainability Report Addendum

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4Message from Lisa Morden Smallest Environmental Footprint Our Business 23 Plastics Footprint Our Business Table of 5 Forest Footprint Carbon Footprint Our Strategy Contents 6Our Strategy for the Decisive Decade Water Footprint Decisive Action for the Decisive Decade

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Cover Caring for the Community Our "Toilets Change Lives" program and long-time partner Water For People is impacting communities in Honduras and across Latin America by providing sustainable water, sanitation, and hygiene services.

Doing the Right Thing Doing the Photo Credit: Anthony Adams, Water For People For more detailed data, metrics and disclosures, see the 2019 Sustainability Report Addendum. Living Our Values Message from Mike Hsu Message from Lisa Morden A Message from Mike Hsu Leadership Message Message Leadership

Each day, Kimberly-Clark and its employees around the concerned too. That's why we will focus on the areas where Our Business world are driven to provide the best for our consumers, our we can make the biggest difference – climate, forests, water, customers and the communities where we work and live, all ingredients and plastics. while minimizing the impact on our planet. Just as important, and incredibly inspiring to me, we will Yet as we share an ambitious strategy for 2030 and new advance the well-being of one billion people by 2030 through Our Strategy sustainability goals for the company, we do so against the innovation, access and programs that support underserved backdrop of an unprecedented challenge, the COVID-19 communities around the world. We will continue innovating our pandemic. products, which service peoples' essential needs throughout their life journeys. Better Lives Better This global health crisis is changing the way we think about the health and safety of our teams and the accessibility of I’m proud of the work our company is doing to meet the our products. These extraordinary times have reminded us challenges of today and prepare for the challenges of why our purpose to deliver the essentials for a better life is tomorrow, and I’m enthusiastic about what the future holds. more important than ever, as the values that have guided us for nearly 150 years continue to shape our response to our Mike Hsu

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As you will see in this report, we know that the next 10 years will be decisive. We know our consumers are concerned about the impact our products have on the environment, and we are Doing the Right Thing Doing the Setting Up the Journey to 2030 Message from Mike Hsu Message from Lisa Morden A Message from Lisa Morden Leadership Message Message Leadership

When we look back at 2019, it was a pivotal But we recognize that the world around us is 26,300 metric tons of product and packaging Our Business year for sustainability at Kimberly-Clark. changing rapidly and that we need a bigger waste to higher-value alternatives. ambition designed to positively impact more Our Sustainability 2022 strategy, introduced in people and the planet. But the challenges of plastics and single- 2015, provided the framework to drive programs use products require us to think beyond just and initiatives that protect our planet and In 2018, Kimberly-Clark surpassed our energy recycling schemes, so we’ve set our sights on Our Strategy build stronger communities. And with so many and climate goal four years early, so we innovative new materials that use less plastic, sustainability challenges facing the world, doubled down and set a new goal to reduce less natural forest fibers and more ingredients these efforts were imperative to our business. absolute greenhouse gas emissions by 40% that consumers expect. by 2022. Our teams were up to the challenge, Better Lives Better The past year saw our social impact programs achieving a 34.7% reduction in 2019. While we’ve made strong progress against reach some big milestones. We celebrated five our goals, we know we must do more. Our years of Toilets Change Lives, a program that Looking forward to 2030, we are thinking even 2030 ambitions are a recognition of the has brought improved access to sanitation bigger in pursuit of science-based climate targets. risks and opportunities that lie ahead, and to nearly 4 million people in need. Huggies’ a challenge to make lives better with the “No Baby Unhugged” expanded into Latin In 2019, we reduced our natural forests smallest environmental footprint.

Smallest Footprint Smallest America which will add nearly 2 million babies footprint by 31% and our water footprint in and young children across 16 countries to its water-stressed areas by 28.9%. And our brand We’re ready to take it on. global impact. And we continued to combat and innovation teams launched innovative stigmas and fight period poverty by providing and impactful initiatives to reduce waste, Lisa Morden education and period products to those who allowing Kimberly-Clark to divert 96% of its Vice President, Safety, Sustainability, need them most. manufacturing waste and consumers to send and Occupational Health Doing the Right Thing Doing the Our Business

Net Sales Our portfolio of brands, including Huggies, Kleenex, Leadership Message Message Leadership Kimberly-Clark and its 52% Scott, Kotex, Cottonelle, 148 trusted brands are an North America Poise, Depend, Andrex, years in indispensable part of life Pull-Ups, GoodNites, Neve, business for people in more than 175 Plenitud, Viva and WypAll, 48% countries. hold the No. 1 or No. 2 share

Our Business outside North America position in 80 countries. We are headquartered in 1/4 Dallas, Texas, with approximately of the world’s 40,000 employees worldwide and Personal Care Consumer Tissue K-C Professional population manufacturing operations in Our Strategy use one of 34 countries. Diapers Facial Tissue Facial Tissue, Bathroom our products Training/Youth/Swim Pants Bathroom Tissue Tissue and Paper Towels every day Fueled by ingenuity, creativity, for away-from-home use and an understanding of Baby Wipes Paper Wipers Better Lives Better $ people’s most essential needs, Feminine Care Towels 6.0 bilion $ $ Safety Products 3.3 we create products that help Incontinence 9. 1 bilion bilion $18.5 individuals experience more of Care bilion sales what’s important to them. in 2019 For nearly 150 years, we’ve had

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In 2016, Kimberly-Clark established our Sustainability and change things for the better, starting now. By 2030 we will: Our Business Our Business 2022 goals, which focused on improving the well-being The Decisive Decade of underrepresented and vulnerable communities That’s why, as we look further ahead to 2030, we have Our Value Chain while reducing waste, greenhouse gas emissions and reevaluated our Sustainability 2022 goals. Refreshing Creating Shared Value Advance the well-being of Focusing on the Essentials forest impacts associated with the manufacture of our materiality assessment helped us to understand billion people Converting Words to Action our products. As this report shows, we are making how the operating environment around the world has 1 Our Strategy Our Strategy Our Aspirations and Goals significant progress. To date, we have helped improve shifted and sharpen our focus on areas where we can the lives of 17 million people through programs such as make the greatest difference. Reduce our plastics footprint by Toilets Change Lives and the Kotex "Period or Not, She 50% Can" promise. We have reduced our GHG emissions by With our refined strategy, we challenged ourselves Better Lives Better Better Lives Better 34% and decreased our use of natural forest fiber by 31%. to reset our ambition level to drive action that we believe is proportionate to the challenges and Reduce our Natural (Northern) Forest These are important achievements; however, much opportunities that lie ahead. Fiber footprint by has changed in the world since 2016. Science 50% (by 2025) has highlighted the potential impacts and rapid Kimberly-Clark’s new commitment is to acceleration of the twin climate and biodiversity improve the lives and well-being of one billion Smallest Footprint Smallest Smallest Footprint Smallest crises, leading many to dub the 2020s "the decisive people in underserved communities around Reduce our absolute GHG emissions (Scope decade" – our last chance to avoid the worst the world, with the smallest environmental 1 and Scope 2), over a 2015 base year, by consequences of environmental degradation. It is footprint. 50% also clearer than ever that we cannot effectively and equitably address these environmental challenges if we don’t also tackle poverty and inequality and build Reduce our water footprint in access to education, health care and sanitation. We water-stressed areas by Doing the Right Thing Doing the Doing the Right Thing Doing the can’t wait. We must think bigger, move faster 50% Making a Difference Leadership Message Message Leadership Leadership Message Message Leadership in Our Value Chain

Our direct environmental and social Forest-dependent Sustainable water use Sustainable water use Our Business Our Business impacts are only a part of the full life communities Water stewardship Water stewardship The Decisive Decade cycle impacts of our products. Human rights and Our Value Chain Forest carbon footprint ethical practices Zero waste to landfill Creating Shared Value Social compliance audits Focusing on the Essentials We have considered the United Nations Converting Words to Action Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Biodiversity Scope 3 emissions Scope 1 & 2 emissions Our Strategy Our Strategy Our Aspirations and Goals against our value chain to better understand risks and opportunities and drive positive change. Raw Materials Supplier Mfg. Kimberly- Clar k M fg Better Lives Better Better Lives Better That is why our strategy is . focused on addressing key Recovery Residual D sustainability impacts and i

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An important lesson from our We believe we can make Our Business Our Business programs over the last decade is meaningful contributions The Decisive Decade that we can only have the scale of to gender equality, clean Our Value Chain positive impact we now seek when Creating Shared Value water and sanitation, Focusing on the Essentials we align our commercial plans climate action and Converting Words to Action with what the world really needs. responsible consumption Our Strategy Our Strategy Our Aspirations and Goals So, sustainability is not a brake and production. on our business – in fact quite the opposite – and our new strategy puts our brand and innovation teams Better Lives Better Better Lives Better to work to create shared value by solving global challenges. The United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals are now accepted as the best shared definition of what needs to be done over the next decade, and we Smallest Footprint Smallest Smallest Footprint Smallest have aligned our own goals with Photo Credit: Jannatul Mawa, WaterAid Mawa, Jannatul Credit: Photo that framework. Doing the Right Thing Doing the Doing the Right Thing Doing the Focusing on the Essentials Leadership Message Message Leadership Leadership Message Message Leadership Kimberly-Clark Brands at the Leading Edge of Social Impact Our Business Our Business

The Decisive Decade Our Value Chain Creating Shared Value Kimberly-Clark delivers essentials Between 2015 and 2019 we reached 17 million MAKING LIVES WITH THE SMALLEST Focusing on the Essentials for a better life to one quarter of people through our social impact program, so BETTER ENVIRONMENTAL Converting Words to Action the world’s population every day, our new goal - advancing the well-being of 1 FOOTPRINT Our Strategy Our Strategy Our Aspirations and Goals yet millions around the world still billion people in underserved communities by lack basic products and services 2030 – is certainly ambitious. that could dramatically improve their quality of life – either because Our work to achieve it has three elements: Better Lives Better Better Lives Better they can’t access or afford them, or because of associated social Caring for the health and well-being of stigmas. Meeting these societal 1 people at all stages of life. needs is a moral imperative. We make lives better when we Challenging stigmas and championing break down barriers and create 2 the progress of women everywhere. Smallest Footprint Smallest Smallest Footprint Smallest opportunities with our purpose- driven brands and products. Championing a world where all enjoy 3 access to clean water and sanitation.

CR S EA GE TE N S LLE HAR HA ED V AL C ALUE TO SOLVE GLOB Doing the Right Thing Doing the Doing the Right Thing Doing the Safeguarding Natural Systems Leadership Message Message Leadership Leadership Message Message Leadership Our commitment to reach a billion people relies on growth in our business, but it’s vital that growth doesn’t come at the expense of the environment.

To achieve the smallest footprint The priority environmental topics that form the – and start to rebuild the natural backbone of our 2030 strategy are: Our Business Our Business systems we all depend on – we The Decisive Decade must focus our efforts and raise our Plastics Footprint Our Value Chain Creating Shared Value ambition level in the impact areas our Reducing our use of new fossil fuel-based plastic, Focusing on the Essentials stakeholders and the latest science while enabling circular systems to recover the Converting Words to Action tell us to prioritize. In some cases, this materials in our products and packaging. Our Strategy Our Strategy Our Aspirations and Goals means shifting the emphasis – for example from waste reduction to circular solutions, or from minimizing Forest Footprint water use to water stewardship in Reducing our products’ forest carbon footprint, while Better Lives Better Better Lives Better communities facing the greatest risk. protecting forest biodiversity and supporting forest- dependent communities.

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Water Footprint Building resilience to water risk at our facilities and in our communities. Doing the Right Thing Doing the Doing the Right Thing Doing the Doing the Right Thing Leadership Message Message Leadership Leadership Message Message Leadership Our continued commitment to doing the right thing underpins our social impact and smallest footprint ambitions. Our Business Our Business Making lives better begins with The Decisive Decade ensuring the health and safety Our Value Chain Creating Shared Value of our customers, consumers, Focusing on the Essentials and employees, promoting Converting Words to Action diversity and inclusion within Our Strategy Our Strategy Our Aspirations and Goals our business, and protecting the rights of workers across our supply chain. Better Lives Better Better Lives Better Ingredients and transparency are important parts of our 2030 sustainability strategy. As part of our efforts we strive to use the safest ingredients (as defined by a science- based approach to product safety) Smallest Footprint Smallest Smallest Footprint Smallest and provide open and transparent details about those ingredients. Doing the Right Thing Doing the Doing the Right Thing Doing the Converting Words Leadership Message Message Leadership Leadership Message Message Leadership to Action

We implement our strategy by further Our Business Our Business integrating sustainability objectives The Decisive Decade into our business and capital planning Our Value Chain Creating Shared Value processes; aligning the priorities of our Focusing on the Essentials supply chain, brand and innovation teams; It’s great to see Kimberly-Clark setting such an ambitious new social goal to 2030. There is also no doubt that Converting Words to Action and establishing meaningful performance we have entered a decade where action on climate change, biodiversity, resources and protecting the natural Our Strategy Our Strategy Our Aspirations and Goals indicators. environment will be critical if we hope to survive and thrive through the next century and beyond. The current COVID-19 crisis is proving again that we need a just transition to a more sustainable future, so it’s exciting Our sustainability program and function are led by to see such strong focus in these pages on human well-being, from a business with so many touchpoints to Lisa Morden, Vice President of Safety, Sustainability, health. Achieving such goals while rebuilding natural systems will not be easy, but Kimberly-Clark has a strong Better Lives Better Better Lives Better and Occupational Health. Her team of global track record on keeping its promises. I look forward to tracking their progress. program leaders works at the global, regional and local levels to drive actions, address gaps and fuel Sally Uren progress toward our long-term goals and ambitions. Chief Executive, Forum for the Future Two additional groups support, oversee and guide Kimberly-Clark Sustainability Advisory Board member our sustainability efforts: our Sustainability Steering Smallest Footprint Smallest Smallest Footprint Smallest Committee, comprised of top Kimberly-Clark leaders, and our Sustainability Advisory Board of prominent external thought leaders. Doing the Right Thing Doing the Doing the Right Thing Doing the Our Aspirations and Goals

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Advance the well-being of 1 billion people Our Business Our Business Make lives better through Social Impact through innovation and programs that deliver purpose-driven brands. The Decisive Decade essentials to underserved1 communities. Our Value Chain Creating Shared Value Focusing on the Essentials Converting Words to Action SMALLEST ENVIRONMENTAL FOOTPRINT Our Strategy Our Strategy Our Aspirations and Goals

Reduce our plastics footprint 50% reduction in the use of new, fossil fuel- by 50% through delivery based plastics. Plastics Footprint of solutions that use more Better Lives Better Better Lives Better renewable materials and can 75% of the material in our products will be be regenerated after use. either biodegradable or will be recovered and recycled.

100% of our packaging will be reusable, recyclable or compostable. Smallest Footprint Smallest Smallest Footprint Smallest 20% average recycled content across plastic packaging.

100% of our manufacturing waste will be diverted from landfill to beneficial uses. Doing the Right Thing Doing the Doing the Right Thing Doing the 1. We identify "underserved" populations based on (1) inability to pay for existing products, (2) inadequate distribution; (3) under-developed wastemanagement infrastructure; or (4) other disparities such as lack of education, social stigmas, etc. Strategic Our 2030 Our Target Year SDG Focus Aspiration Goals 2022 2025 2030 Focus

Reduce our natural forest Reduce our Natural (Northern) Forest Fiber2 footprint by 50% while unlocking footprint by 50% from a 2011 base year. Forest Footprint the power of the world’s forests to help solve the climate and Source 90% of our tissue fiber from biodiversity crises. Leadership Message Message Leadership Leadership Message Message Leadership Environmentally Preferred Fiber (EPF) sources.

In the near future, set a science-based goal to reduce Scope 3 land-use emissions by 2030. Our Business Our Business Do our part in the fight against Reduce absolute Scope 1 and 2 GHG The Decisive Decade climate change by minimizing the emissions by 50% over a 2015 base year. Our Value Chain Carbon Footprint carbon footprint of our products Creating Shared Value and brands and reducing our Focusing on the Essentials Reduce absolute Scope 33 GHG emissions by Converting Words to Action direct emissions by 50% and Our Strategy Our Strategy 20% from a 2015 base year. Our Aspirations and Goals value chain emissions by 20%.

Reduce our water footprint Achieve sustainable water use at 100% of our by 50% in water-stressed sites in water-stressed regions. Water Footprint Better Lives Better Better Lives Better regions by creating significant improvements in our supply Create positive and measurable watershed chain and the surrounding impact in 30 watersheds/water basins. communities, ensuring ongoing access to fresh water for all. Achieve responsible and efficient water use at all Kimberly-Clark manufacturing facilities. Smallest Footprint Smallest Smallest Footprint Smallest

Collaborate with key supplier partners to amplify our impact in water-stressed regions around the world.

2. Natural forests are composed of native species that self-regenerate and contain key elements of native ecosystems 3. Reduction target is focused on emissions from the Greenhouse Gas Protocol's Scope 3 Category 1 (Purchased Goods such as wildlife and biological diversity. To us, this primarily includes boreal fibers known as Northern Bleached and Services) and Category 12 (End of Life Treatment of Sold Products). Doing the Right Thing Doing the Doing the Right Thing Doing the Softwood Kraft (NBSK). Leadership Message Message Leadership

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Social Impact Our products change lives. We help people around the world access essentials for a dignified life and we aim to Better Lives Better do more. We have aligned our growth plans with the UN's Sustainable Development Goals, and we are putting Kimberly-Clark's brands to work on some of the most pressing challenges facing the world. Smallest Footprint Smallest Doing the Right Thing Doing the

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We deliver essentials for a Yet millions around the world still lack Our Social Impact ambition aims to serve these unmet societal Our Business better life to one quarter of the access to basic products and services needs, with the goal of advancing the well-being of 1 billion people in world's population every day. that could dramatically improve their underserved communities through programs and innovation focused on quality of life. delivering essentials for a better life. Our Strategy

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2019 Performance

In 2019, our brands continued to deliver programs and initiatives that made a difference to people and communities around the world.

Leadership Message Message Leadership Many of these programs were aligned to the work of the 3.9M 11.4M Kimberly-Clark Foundation, which helps carry out efforts access to helping children through social and community investments that increase sanitation thrive access to sanitation, help children thrive and empower women and girls. Our Business Since 2015 we have made significant progress 1.7M towards our 2022 goal to improve the lives of 25 empowering million people in need. women 17M & girls lives impacted since 2015 Our Strategy

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Done right, the benefits of social impact initiatives ripple outward from As a result, we have updated We have also added the impact Since 2016, this program direct to secondary and tertiary beneficiaries. Our Touch of White Angels the impact of the Touch of of a program in Australia and New has reached: program provided training and professional support to maternal and White Angels from Zealand schools. U by Kotex® has

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Better Lives Better C people To create positive change, in 2014 Kimberly-Clark 96,000 to a toilet, Andrex and UNICEF recruit children to be change launched Toilets Change Lives, a multinational 6 countries have given access to safe and agents for sanitation. The program that funds solutions to the global 233 communities clean facilities to effort impacted more than sanitation crisis. Through consumer awareness, NGO 145 schools people people partnerships and on-the-ground activations, we’re 464,000 133,000 bringing toilets, sanitation education and increased

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Leadership Message Message Leadership We know that those first moments of a baby’s The Program: One in four American women Overall Impact of U by Kotex® life are some of the most important, and struggle to purchase period Donations to the Alliance for that Early Childhood Development (ECD) products due to lack of income. To Period Supplies programs are critical to helping babies meet Ensures babies receive address that need, our U by Kotex® their full potential. That’s why our Huggies® quality services, including brand partnered with the National Our Business brand partnered with UNICEF in 2019 to neonatal care Diaper Bank Network in 2018 to 26.8K launch No Baby Unhugged in Latin America. become the founding sponsor of the clients helped every month Alliance for Period Supplies (APS). No Baby Unhugged supports Creates baby-friendly UNICEF’s ECD programs, which aim to environments at hospitals The Alliance distributes M

Our Strategy 1.1 improve children´s lives and engage and clinics period products to existing worry-free days parents in nurturing care and network partners throughout

Social Impact positive parenting practices. the United States, and from Trains frontline workers to there to women and girls who 225K Better Lives Better The UNICEF / Kimberly-Clark Partnership provide essential services need them. worry-free cycles spans 16 countries in Latin America and the for young children Caribbean and is expected to improve the Each month, APS Allied Programs lives of nearly 2 million babies and young serve 42,000 individuals. 18,750 children. Ensures that families have clients with a worry-free year the support they need

Smallest Footprint Smallest to care for their children and provide a safe and 441,489 enriching environment for 11.8M lives impacted in 2019 child development period products donated in 2019 Doing the Right Thing Doing the #SheCan Fund

Our Kotex® Malaysia team is helping women turn their ambitions into reality with the #SheCan fund. Leadership Message Message Leadership Following the theme “Open Doors for Her” in mind, the Kotex® Malaysia team created the #SheCan fund to inspire women throughout Malaysia. Using the Kotex® website and Our Business social media, the digital campaign invites women to submit an online application detailing their passion. A panel of judges reviews the entries. Winners are shortlisted and selected Our Strategy every three months.

Social Impact One #SheCan fund winner designed The #SheCan fund has a limited-edition Batik packaging motivated women to Better Lives Better to create greater relevance in the break down barriers and marketplace. Another winner debuted pursue their passion her clothing collection during Kuala because – period or not – Lumpur's fashion week. Kotex® believes they CAN. Smallest Footprint Smallest Doing the Right Thing Doing the Leadership Message Message Leadership Smallest

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Better lives happen in healthy environments. Kimberly-Clark's success is dependent on innovating new ways to give Better Lives Better consumers the essentials they need while safeguarding natural systems and the life they support. That means eliminating waste and recovering resources; protecting Plastics Footprint Forest Footprint forests of high carbon, biodiversity, and cultural value; Carbon Footprint cutting greenhouse gas emissions in line with climate Water Footprint science; and building strong water stewardship

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Leaders from Kimberly-Clark, General Mills and Algonquin Power & Utilities Corp. broke ground on the Maverick Creek Wind Project in Eden, Texas. The project will help offset 100% of the electricity we purchase for our Family Care business in North America. Plastics

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Waste has no place in business – or in tomorrow’s We aspire to be at the forefront of the transition to a circular, By improving resource efficiency and reducing waste, we can Our Business circular economy. reuse economy – contributing to human and ecosystem meaningfully contribute to the objectives of UN Sustainable health by reducing waste, improving waste-handling systems Development Goal 12, Responsible Consumption and For the past two decades, we have been diverting and innovating new ways of giving consumers the products Production. manufacturing waste to higher value alternatives. We are taking they need. We realize getting there will take game-changing the lessons learned from our efforts to address manufacturing innovation, and we know we're up to the challenge. Our Strategy waste and applying them to our plastics footprint aspiration. Better Lives Better

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How We Will Deliver on Our Strategy

Leadership Message Message Leadership To expedite our move to Packaging more sustainable materials 1 Packaging is one of the most visible sustainability challenges. In 2019, we undertook a and processes, we’re comprehensive evaluation of our packaging and products that led to our new multi- partnering with stakeholders pronged strategy of reducing new, fossil fuel-based plastic, which includes replacing across our value chain to hard-to-recycle components with recyclable, renewable or reusable options. Moving Our Business drive innovation and action forward, where it makes business sense, we willl explore opportunities to extend our in three key areas. strategy to incorporate alternative materials that are compostable.

Product 2 Our program is highly focused on the footprint of our plastic-containing materials. Our Strategy We are shifting to recovered or renewable materials to reduce our consumption of traditional plastics and designing products to be recyclable or biodegradable to provide secondary value to post-consumer waste. By designing products that are either technical inputs (return for recovery) in the Circular Economy or compostable Better Lives Better or biological (return to nature), we are better serving the diverse waste management systems around the world.

Plastics Footprint Forest Footprint Waste Management Systems Carbon Footprint 3 We will continue to nurture circular systems around the world that are necessary to Water Footprint recover the materials in our products and packaging when a consumer is done with them.

Smallest Footprint Smallest By creating partnerships and building on existing waste management infrastructure, we develop new business models that can support management of waste from our products and packaging and be scaled in emerging or mature markets.

Moving forward, we will continue to conduct life cycle assessments (LCA) and other environmental or social impact assessments to build an innovation approach based on science. Doing the Right Thing Doing the How We Define Our Materials

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Is ‘Traditional’ plastic made from fossil fuel Is Material that can be broken down to biomass in feedstock industrial or home composting environments Our Business To reduce Minimize mass Is not The same as biodegradable, where materials break impact down naturally in soil or marine environments we will Replace single-use with reusable components Recovered and Recycled Our Strategy Use bio-based feedstock and recycled content Is Material that is collected and used as feedstock for new Use compostable or biodegradable plastics production or as organic input to biological systems Better Lives Better

Biodegradable Is not Material that is recyclable but ends up in landfill or the Plastics Footprint Forest Footprint environment Carbon Footprint Water Footprint Is Material that breaks down in soil or

Smallest Footprint Smallest marine environments without creating To grow Establish post-consumer waste systems for collection microplastics impact and recovery we will Build partnerships throughout the value chain Is not Oxo-degradable Follow recognized industry standards for A “license to litter” biodegradability Doing the Right Thing Doing the 2019 Performance

Throughout 2019 we focused The year also marked our first full-year participation in the on refining and establishing UK Plastics Pact, a trailblazing, collaborative effort between 99% our new waste ambition and industry, NGOs and the UK government to tackle the fiber-based packaging from Leadership Message Message Leadership 2030 goals, while making problem of plastic waste and create a circular economy. Our virgin fiber certified suppliers or progress against our existing involvement helped inspire our 2025 commitments to utilize recycled fiber commitments. an average of 20% recycled content across all our plastic packaging and to make 100% of our packaging reusable, recyclable or compostable. Our Business 26,300 MT We made progress on our 2022 goal of sourcing only recycled of product and packaging fiber or virgin fiber from certified suppliers for our fiber-based waste diverted to value-adding packaging, achieving a 99% rate in 2019. alternatives Our Strategy We were also able to divert 26,300 MT of product and packaging waste to value-adding alternatives. While we are not currently on pace to achieve our target of 150,000 MT by 2022, we believe that our new goals focused on reducing Better Lives Better plastic and packaging waste will help us to drive more meaningful change.

Plastics Footprint Forest Footprint Carbon Footprint Water Footprint Smallest Footprint Smallest Doing the Right Thing Doing the Operational Waste and Zero Waste to Landfill

Leadership Message Message Leadership In 2019 we continued By 2022, we intend We're focusing on the top ten largest waste our strong focus on to achieve zero streams we currently send to landfill each eliminating waste waste to landfill year and are supporting regional and mill from our day-to- across all of teams in diverting smaller streams. At our day operations and our operations, facilities, we’re creating waste inventories Our Business were able to divert including that document the quantities, consistency, 96% of operational manufacturing location and visual management of each waste from landfills facilities, offices, waste stream, a process that helps identify to higher value warehouses and opportunities and prepare a glidepath for alternatives. distribution centers. hard-to-divert waste streams. Our Strategy

Better Lives Better Waste Diversion Rate*

2016 % Plastics Footprint 94 Forest Footprint Carbon Footprint 2017 95% Water Footprint 2018 Smallest Footprint Smallest 95% 2019 96%

Doing the Right Thing Doing the * We calculate landfill diversion using the most recent three months of data. Brand-Driven Waste Reduction Initiatives

Leadership Message Message Leadership Some of Kimberly-Clark’s most Huggies Tiniest Footprint campaign: In the United Kingdom, our boxes, which saves 43 tons of plastic annually. The brand also inventive and impactful waste- Huggies brand conducted an LCA to assess the environmental began labeling all baby wipes with their natural fiber and plastic reduction efforts in 2019 were impact of baby wipes. The brand announced plans to completely content ahead of regulatory requirements. launched by our brands around phase out plastic from its baby wipes line by 2025 and to make the world. its packaging recyclable in home recycling bins. In 2019 alone, the Huggies explores plant-based plastics: Huggies North America Our Business brand removed 15 tons of plastic from Huggies Extra Care wipes introduced Huggies Special Delivery, the first diaper that incorporates and curtailed the use of inner plastic bags in its 12- and 18-pack plant-based materials (23% by weight) in its liner and waistband.

Materials reuse in Latin America: In Latin America, Kimberly-Clark launched a partnership between its professional and consumer Our Strategy businesses to divert used stretch wrap film waste from our Tocancipa, Colombia mill to one of our packaging suppliers. The material is now reused as plastic film packaging for our products, replacing 30% of virgin plastic film packaging with post-consumer recycled content. Better Lives Better

Inclusive recycling in Sao Paulo: Kimberly-Clark began working with the Inclusive Waste Recycling Consortium (iWrc) to develop Plastics Footprint Forest Footprint a socially responsible program focused on improving the lives Carbon Footprint of waste-picker cooperatives in Sao Paulo, Brazil – teaching Water Footprint management, networking, and technology skills to improve

Smallest Footprint Smallest personal outcomes while connecting us with the socially responsible materials they’re producing.

Renewable polyethylene packaging in Brazil: Our Neve Tissue brand in Brazil expanded its program to replace fossil fuel-based plastic content with renewable polyethylene packaging produced from sugarcane. Doing the Right Thing Doing the Forest

Leadership Message Message Leadership Footprint

Protecting our forests is critical to conserving We are keenly aware that both the global biodiversity crisis We are increasing our ambition and refocusing our efforts on Our Business terrestrial biodiversity, safeguarding forest- and the climate crisis have worsened, with their potential the primary mission of reducing our products’ forest carbon dependent communities around the world and impacts coming into even starker relief. footprint, while protecting forest biodiversity and supporting mitigating climate change. forest-dependent communities. Our Strategy Better Lives Better

Plastics Footprint Forest Footprint Carbon Footprint Water Footprint Smallest Footprint Smallest

Photo Credit: Forest Stewardship Council® Stewardship Forest Credit: Photo Doing the Right Thing Doing the Doing the Right Thing Smallest Footprint Better Lives Our Strategy Our Business Leadership Message Water Footprint Carbon Footprint Forest Footprint Plastics Footprint forests. We focused ontwo strategies: to minimize ourimpactontheworld's fiber procurement policythat sought Clark launchedanindustry-leading More thanadecade ago, Kimberly- Coming Decade Leadership for the Fiber Sourcing Redefining Responsible 2 1 temperate forests. borealnorthern and primarily fibers from Kimberly-Clark are forest fibers, which for Reduce our use of natural Council®. the Forest Stewardship virgin fibers certified by alternative fibers and fibers – e.g., recycled and environmentally preferred Increase ouruse of efforts to tackle these issues. looking ahead,we are realigning our for theirlivelihoods.why, That's communities thatdependonforests loss: Indigenouscommunities and climate changeandbiodiversity be disproportionately impacted by overlaps withcommunities thatwill that ourfiber sourcing footprint and biodiversity crises. We also know challenges posed by thedualclimate both areas, butwe recognize the We've madesignificant progress in

Aspirationcrises biodiversity the climate and to helpsolve world’s forests the power of the while unlocking footprint by 50% natural forest Reduce our elements of native ecosystems such aswildlife species thatself-regenerate andcontain key and biological diversity. To us, thisprimarily includes boreal fibers known asNorthern * Natural forests are composed of native to reduce 3land-use Scope Bleached Softwood Kraft (NBSK). set ascience-based goal reduction of ourNatural (Northern) Forest(Northern) Fiber* footprint by 2025 from from Environmentally of ourtissue sourced Preferred Fiber(EPF) emissions by 2030 In the near future, a 2011 base year sources by 2025 90 Goals50 % %

Forest Carbon Footprint

Measuring the life cycle impacts of biological materials – from their natural carbon cycle through harvesting and utilization – is Leadership Message Message Leadership extremely difficult. Robust land-use carbon accounting tools and methodologies have been slow to develop, making it challenging to create an accurate baseline against which to gauge the full carbon impacts of our supply Our Business chain’s forestry activities, and how they vary across different fiber and product types.

However, new tools are starting to come online that will better enable companies to Our Strategy account for both their biogenic and fossil carbon footprints. Council® Stewardship Forest Credit: Photo

Better Lives Better Kimberly-Clark has been This new knowledge will help us evaluate ongoing efforts to reduce our use of natural tracking the development of the relative biogenic carbon impacts of our forest fiber from high-carbon value forests these new tools and will be using fiber mix across virgin wood fiber, recycled and increase our use of environmentally Plastics Footprint Forest Footprint recent methodological advances fiber and sustainable alternative fibers. Once preferred fibers (such as alternative and Carbon Footprint to develop an initial baseline of we finalize a baseline of our forest carbon recycled fibers) will continue to be important Water Footprint our forest carbon footprint. footprint, we plan to integrate forest land- levers for lowering our forest carbon footprint.

Smallest Footprint Smallest use emissions into our future Scope 3 GHG We also believe Forest Stewardship Council emissions reduction objectives. (FSC)® certification has the potential to provide future forest carbon and climate Despite the methodological and accounting benefits. In short, our 2025 goals will serve as challenges left to be solved, we feel confident milestones for achieving our forthcoming 2030 that we are already on the right path. Our forest carbon ambition. Doing the Right Thing Doing the Protecting Biodiversity and Supporting Forest- Dependent Communities Leadership Message Message Leadership

As both Kimberly-Clark and society at large look to the world’s forests as an important climate change mitigation pathway, we must ensure safeguards are in place that simultaneously provide Our Business protection for forest biodiversity and the rights of local, forest- dependent communities.

We believe Forest Stewardship We will continue to look beyond Our Strategy Council® certification applies our FSC® commitment for the most rigorous criteria for the additional ways Kimberly-Clark conservation of biodiversity and can support the well-being and the protection of the rights of land tenure rights of indigenous Better Lives Better indigenous communities. These are and other under-represented two important reasons why FSC®- forest-dependent communities certified virgin fiber is the only within our sphere of influence, while Plastics Footprint Forest Footprint virgin fiber we consider to be an simultaneously delivering climate Carbon Footprint environmentally preferred fiber and and biodiversity benefits. Water Footprint allow to count toward our 2025 goal. Smallest Footprint Smallest

Photo Credit: Forest Stewardship Council® Stewardship Forest Credit: Photo Doing the Right Thing Doing the 2019 Performance 2019 Tissue Fiber Sourcing

Through 2019, our use of environmentally preferred tissue fiber was 31% 84%. While this represents a 3% year-over-year decrease from 2018, recycled we remain on track towards meeting our goal of 90% by 2025. fiber Leadership Message Message Leadership

We were also able to achieve a 31% reduction in our use of natural forest fiber compared to our 2011 baseline, as we continue to drive towards a 50% decrease by 2025. Additionally, 100% 100% of the fiber used in Kimberly-Clark products in 2019 was of the fiber used in Our Business sourced from suppliers who met our certification standards. Kimberly-Clark products in 2019 was sourced from These accomplishments demonstrate our continued progress suppliers who met our 54% in creating a more sustainable and resilient supply chain. certification standards FSC® virgin fiber Our Strategy

Use of Natural Forest Fiber (MT) 31% Better Lives Better reduction

Plastics Footprint Forest Footprint Carbon Footprint Water Footprint Smallest Footprint Smallest

16% other

522,201 certified 526,483 565,105 756,531 559,437 574,843 575,606 572,456 534,644 virgin fiber 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 Doing the Right Thing Doing the Forest Partnerships

We continue to advance Forest Management with the Appalachian Woodlands Alliance Expanding FSC® in Canada many important partnerships that In 2019, Kimberly-Clark joined the Rainforest The program was developed by the Support for FSC® certification is foundational to our Leadership Message Message Leadership help us reduce the Alliance, the Forest Stewardship Council® (FSC®) Appalachian Woodlands Alliance, a forest footprint strategy. environmental and social and corporate partners in announcing the launch partnership between the Rainforest Alliance impacts of forestry. of the Smallholder Access Program (SAP). and forest product leaders across the United In 2019, the Kimberly-Clark Foundation provided States who share a commitment to practicing support to FSC® Canada for the successful This two-year FSC® pilot project is designed responsible forestry. Kimberly-Clark joined the introduction and uptake of the new FSC® Canada Our Business to provide the benefits of FSC® certification Appalachian Woodlands Alliance in 2015. National Forest Management Standard, which to forest-dependent landowners who manage provides important new protections for at-risk species 100 hectares (250 acres) or less of woodlands. and indigenous rights. Our Strategy

WWF Partnership 10-Year Anniversary

In 2019, we celebrated the 10-year Kimberly-Clark has pledged to support Better Lives Better anniversary of our partnership with WWF’s efforts to protect high conservation the World Wildlife Fund (WWF). value forests by funding the development of tools for identifying, mapping and monitoring Plastics Footprint Forest Footprint As a member of WWF’s Global Forest these forests in priority regions. We have also Carbon Footprint and Trade Network, we are committed worked closely with WWF to support the Forest Water Footprint to increasing our use of wood fiber from Stewardship Council® in its mission to protect

Smallest Footprint Smallest sustainable sources to help protect the forest ecosystems by boosting consumer world’s forests. demand for responsibly-sourced forest products.

Through the partnership, WWF has helped us We are currently working with WWF to implement our global fiber procurement policy develop a forest protection project in two and has provided support as we increased the watersheds in Alabama and Mississippi, amount of responsibly harvested fiber used for and look forward to another ten years of

Doing the Right Thing Doing the our tissue products. collaboration and conservation. Carbon

Leadership Message Message Leadership Footprint

We have seen firsthand the impacts climate Kimberly-Clark has been focused on shifting the current We exceeded our 2022 target to reduce absolute greenhouse Our Business change is having on our planet and we know that trajectory and doing our part to build a low-carbon economy. gas emissions by 20% over a 2005 baseline three years early. Yet the next decade is critical. we aspire to do more. Our Strategy Better Lives Better

Aspiration 20% by chain emissions 50% andvalue emissions by reduce ourdirect and brands and of ourproducts carbon footprint Minimize the * Reduction target isfocused onemissions and Services) andCategory 12(Endof Life Scope 3CategoryScope 1(Purchased Goods from the Greenhouse GasProtocol's emissions by 2030 from Treatment of Products). Sold reduction of absolute reduction of absolute Scope 1and2GHGScope a 2015 base year emissions from a 50 20 2015 base year Scope 3*Scope GHG Goals % %

How We Will Deliver on the Strategy

Reducing the carbon Driving Greater Energy Embracing Tomorrow's Taking Responsibility for footprint of our Efficiency Throughout Our Enacting Innovative Alternative/Renewable Driving Emissions Reductions products means owning Operations Conservation Efforts Energy Technologies Across Our Full Value Chain Leadership Message Message Leadership comprehensive climate objectives based on At Kimberly-Clark, Lean Energy In an effort to continuously improve Our carbon footprint strategy also The carbon footprint of Kimberly- four pillars. means working with Lean efficiency sustainability and cost efficiency involves significant investment in Clark products goes beyond our in- principles and continuous for each product, we identify and renewable and alternative energy house operations to include indirect improvement tools to promote an operationalize capital projects that generation. We look for attractive value-chain emissions from our Our Business energy conservation mindset at our deliver manufacturing cost savings conditions to install renewable suppliers and customers (Scope 3). manufacturing sites. To do that, we by improving energy efficiency and energy on site, such as solar panels. employ an energy management reducing consumption. We uncover We have also had success installing As part of our commitment to system that’s embedded into opportunities while conducting new cogeneration units, burning natural help avoid the worst impacts the daily accountability process, energy assessments, workshops, best gas on-site to generate electricity from climate change, we have a Our Strategy positioning energy as a priority at the practices analysis and benchmarking, and using the waste heat to goal to reduce Scope 3 emissions same level as safety, quality, delivery all while implementing our Lean produce steam that can be used in by 20% by 2030 compared to our and cost. We focus on: Energy initiatives. the manufacturing process. Green 2015 baseline. electricity generation from large-scale Better Lives Better Operational systems – process power purchase agreements is being To drive this change, we are focused improvement and standard integrated into our sustainability brand on areas such as land-use, renewable changes to deliver efficiencies strategies as we continue to find ways materials, transportation efficiency Plastics Footprint Forest Footprint to reduce the overall carbon footprint and partnerships with key suppliers. Carbon Footprint Management infrastructure – of our products. Such interdisciplinary work requires Water Footprint energy meters and dashboards to a high degree of coordination and

Smallest Footprint Smallest aid real-time energy management collaboration between our teams to ensure we are always considering Mindset, behaviors and the life cycle carbon impacts of any capabilities – improve training, decision we make. awareness and recognition Doing the Right Thing Doing the 2019 Performance

Kimberly-Clark has had a goal to reduce absolute With the establishment of these new 2030 targets Our 2019 progress was driven by a variety of energy carbon emissions by 40% by 2022 compared to a (50% reduction in Scope 1 and 2 GHG emissions management actions: 2005 baseline. In 2019, we were able to establish between 2015 and 2030), our existing 2022 goal Leadership Message Message Leadership the necessary global processes to pursue new 2030 becomes a key milestone along the way. carbon reduction goals approved by the Science 200 energy conservation projects, representing Based Targets initiative (SBTi). In 2019, we made great progress against a total GHG emissions reduction of the 2022 objective, achieving a 34.7% GHG emissions reduction (Scope 1 and 2) versus the Our Business 85,000 MTCO2e 2005 baseline.

Scope 1 and 2 Carbon Footprint This represents a total reduction of 435,000 MTCO e, 2 More than 35 Lean Energy operational systems (Million MTCO e) a 10.7% emissions decline since 2018. 2 improvement activities, representing GHG

Our Strategy emissions reduction of 34.7% 5.6 reduction 30,000 MTCO2e 2.0 Scope 1 Better Lives Better Scope 3 3.0

4.9 emissions account Eight alternative and renewable energy for the majority 4.6 Plastics Footprint of our 2019 1.7 Scope 2 projects, providing GHG emissions reduction of

Forest Footprint 2.7 Carbon Footprint GHG footprint 4.1 Water Footprint 2.5 (Million MTCO2e) 130,000 MTCO2e

3.7 Scope 3 Smallest Footprint Smallest 12.3 2.0

2.6 Structural asset changes, manufacturing 1.7 footprint optimization, and other non-energy

2.2 and climate-related activities, representing GHG 2.1 2.1

2.0 Direct (Scope 1) emissions reduction of

2005 2015 2017 2018 2019 Doing the Right Thing Doing the Indirect (Scope 2) 190,000 MTCO2e Pursuing Energy Efficiency Initiatives

In 2019, Kimberly-Clark undertook 200 energy conservation projects at our global manufacturing sites, leveraging energy best practices to realize reductions of 85,000 Leadership Message Message Leadership MTCO2e. Projects included LED lighting retrofit, compressed air systems improvement, automation of the drying section on tissue assets, replacement of low-efficiency vacuum generation technology and installation of Our Business variable frequency drives in process pumps and fans, among many other initiatives. Our Strategy Investing in Alternative Energy Investing in Wind Investing in Solar

In 2019, Kimberly-Clark manufacturing sites In 2017, Kimberly-Clark made a major commitment to renewable energy by In 2019, we completed photovoltaic in Mobile, Alabama; Cauca, Colombia; and entering its first utility-scale virtual power purchase agreements (VPPAs) with solar installations at four Kimberly-Clark Better Lives Better Puente Piedra, Peru, began operation of new, two wind power projects in Texas and Oklahoma, intended to offset electricity manufacturing and distribution sites located state-of-the-art combined heat and power purchased by Kimberly-Clark Professional™ manufacturing sites in the United in Tuas, Singapore; Pune, India; Cauca, cogeneration plants, with a fourth (in Chester, States. In 2019, these facilities delivered 966,700 MWh of renewable electricity. Colombia; and Guatemala City, Guatemala. Plastics Footprint Forest Footprint Pennsylvania) expected to come online in Combined, these four projects are capable of Carbon Footprint early 2020. Together, these units are capable With the success of this arrangement, we entered another utility- generating 3.9 MWh of green electricity (peak Water Footprint of producing 88 MWh of electricity. scale VPPA in 2019 with a second Texas wind project. capacity) and contributing 3,150 MTCO2e

Smallest Footprint Smallest emissions reduction. Through reuse of waste heat from the Starting in late 2020, this contract will deliver approximately 670,000 MWh generating process, we are also able to of renewable energy annually and will account for 100% of the electricity produce process steam that can be used purchased by our family care manufacturing facilities in North America. This for manufacturing. We anticipate these sites equates to a 300,000 MTCO2e reduction, bringing the total reduction from our will account for aggregated GHG emissions three VPPAs to 830,000 MTCO2e annually. reductions of approximately 100,000 MTCO2e. Doing the Right Thing Doing the Water

Leadership Message Message Leadership Footprint

Water insecurity and water water stress affect The impact is felt across our value chain, from the sources This increasing impact on our communities and our planet led Our Business billions of people around the world. of our fiber to the facilities that create our products to the us to elevate the issue’s importance in Kimberly-Clark’s 2030 communities where our employees and consumers live. sustainability strategy. Our Strategy Better Lives Better

Plastics Footprint Forest Footprint Carbon Footprint Water Footprint Smallest Footprint Smallest Doing the Right Thing Doing the Doing the Right Thing Smallest Footprint Better Lives Our Strategy Our Business Leadership Message Water Footprint Carbon Footprint Forest Footprint Plastics Footprint water basin. security for the entire creating greater water on ourfacilities buton means we focus not just holisticOur approach each water basin. at greatest risk andcustomizing ourapproach andambitionfor thespecificneedsof maximizes thebenefit we can drive by targeting themajorityof ourefforts onregions Although aglobalchallenge, water stress isinherently alocal issue. strategy Our chain willhelpusachieve ourlong-term aspirations for sustainable water use. improvements inourown operations, inoursurrounding communities andinoursupply As we lookto 2030, relentlessly pursuing short-term milestones andmakingmeaningful Fresh Water for All Ensuring Access to can magnify theimpactofcan magnify ourefforts. targets for theirfacilities inwater-stressed regions, we suppliers to set andachieve sustainable water use our own operations to theirfacilities. By working with suppliers applythemethodology we’ve developed for practices withinoursupply chain andare helping We recognize theneedfor strong water stewardship andwatershedcommunity level. economic, social, andenvironmental value atthe approaches, andimplementsolutions thatdrive watershed's challenges, share best practices and and business to review scientific assessments of the public groups composed of local government, NGOs, We developed amethodology thatengages private-

Aspirationwater for all access to fresh ensuring ongoing communities, surrounding chain andthe in oursupply improvements significant by creating stressed regions by 50% inwater- water footprint Reduce our Achieve responsible andefficient Create positive and measurable water use atallKimberly-Clark partners to ourimpact amplify Collaborate with key supplier By 2030, we intend to: watersheds/water basins in water-stressed regions manufacturing facilities of oursites inwater- watershed impact in 100 sustainable water around the world stressed regions 30 Achieve Achieve Goalsuse at

Driving Sustainable Water Use at Our Sites

Achieving sustainable water use in Based on this assessment, we our operations begins by ensuring establish customized sustainable Leadership Message Message Leadership that all our sites comply with relevant water use targets. local permitting and with Kimberly- Clark’s global water, wastewater and Our facilities then mobilize to environmental performance standards. implement best practices for reducing, reusing and recycling water in pursuit Our Business We are working to understand of our sustainable water use targets. what sustainable water use looks like in water-stressed regions, By taking what we've learned from expanding our work beyond the 12 our initial focus on tissue mills, we can manufacturing sites identified in our now apply this process to all water- Our Strategy 2022 strategy to all 30 manufacturing stressed manufacturing locations. locations in regions that are, or are projected to be, water-stressed. To achieve our 2030 goal, we will ensure that all qualifying facilities Better Lives Better Our process includes a achieve their individual sustainable scientific watershed analysis water use targets, thus creating for each location that meaningful improvements in the Plastics Footprint Forest Footprint factors in water availability, surrounding communities and ensuring Carbon Footprint biodiversity considerations, ongoing access to fresh water. Water Footprint socio-economic trends and the

Smallest Footprint Smallest regulatory landscape. Doing the Right Thing Doing the 2019 Performance

Water is an essential input to our In 2019 we enacted sustainable water-use plans for all 12 mills. Four of tissue manufacturing process, so them have now achieved their sustainable water-use target, and our the majority of our initial water- goal is for the remainder to meet their targets by 2022. Leadership Message Message Leadership responsibility efforts have been focused on 12 Kimberly-Clark Last year, these 12 mills achieved a 5.8% reduction in water use tissue mills identified as operating compared to 2018. In the years since 2015, they have reduced absolute in water-stressed areas. water use by 28.9%.

Our Business We will continue to address water as a location-specific issue as we expand beyond tissue mills and set goals for all Kimberly-Clark locations in water-stressed areas. Our Strategy

Water Use at Tissue Mills in Water-Stressed Regions (m3) Better Lives Better 2015 10,249,290

Plastics Footprint 2016 Forest Footprint 8,531,505 Carbon Footprint Water Footprint 2017 8,327,470 28.9%

Smallest Footprint Smallest reduction 2018 7,728,604 2019 7,282,511 Doing the Right Thing Doing the WaterLOUPE

Kimberly-Clark takes a local approach to water, because truly understanding water risks in the community better enables us to create positive solutions. We host water Leadership Message Message Leadership scarcity workshops to bring stakeholders to the table to discuss water risks and use tools like WaterLOUPE, which we developed with Dutch research group Deltares, to generate actionable insights.

Our Business The WaterLOUPE tool allows us to understand who is most exposed to water risk, who is most vulnerable, and what is the hazard they face.

The information provided by the tool enables us to identify Our Strategy risks and bring together a holistic group of local businesses, Jim Bath, Director of Environmental Sustainability, in front of the Theewaterskloof government and NGOs in a watershed to determine Dam, which provides water to the city of Cape Town, South Africa. community-based solutions.

Better Lives Better In February 2019, Kimberly-Clark and a WaterLOUPE water scarcity risk This work in Cape Town has become Deltares gathered over 30 individuals dashboard was created and utilized a model for the rest of the business. representing local governments, to scientifically model potential Instead of just focusing on reducing Plastics Footprint Forest Footprint businesses and NGOs at our Epping solutions. water at the facility, local teams in Carbon Footprint mill, just outside of Cape Town, South water-stressed areas are using this Water Footprint Africa, for a water scarcity workshop. We reconvened in Cape Town in holistic, analytics-enabled approach to

Smallest Footprint Smallest The workshop engaged stakeholders August for a second session to understand water risk across their entire to look at risks for the entire evaluate the data we received at the watershed and find solutions that work watershed and align on objectives. first WaterLOUPE workshop and create for all stakeholders over the long term. Using the data from the workshop, collective action towards solutions. Doing the Right Thing Doing the Leadership Message Message Leadership Doing the Our Business Right Thing Our Strategy The foundation of Kimberly-Clark’s sustainability program is our deep commitment to running our business with the highest ethical standards and meeting all our compliance obligations.

Better Lives Better We aspire to make a lasting, positive impact on people throughout the world – and that includes the people close to home. We take seriously our obligation to ensure the health and safety of our consumers, customers and employees; promote inclusion and diversity within our business; and protect the rights of workers and

Smallest Footprint Smallest communities across our supply chain.

Ingredients & Transparency Environment, Health & Safety Human Rights & Ethical Practices Inclusion & Diversity Talent Development Caring for the Community Doing the Right Thing Doing the Ingredients &

Leadership Message Message Leadership Transparency

Our brands produce essential products As a company, we want to continue to serve our consumers We’re also committed to transparency: sharing our practices Our Business that people use every day to make and grow our brands to help even more people. That’s why we and providing ingredient information that is clear, reliable and their lives better – healthier, cleaner take ingredient safety and product quality so seriously. accessible. That’s one of the ways we give consumers peace of and more convenient. mind and build trust in our brands. Our Strategy Better Lives Better Smallest Footprint Smallest

Leadership Message Message Leadership Kimberly-Clark has always been focused on product safety. It's We continue our work replacing a set of ingredients that we recognized some how our brands and products earn the trust of so many families consumers preferred to avoid. We have now removed 100% of these ingredients around the world. from Kimberly-Clark Professional skin care products (including microbeads, nonylphenol ethoxylates and triclosan) and from baby and feminine care wipes Looking ahead, we plan to take this commitment even further, accelerating our (including parabens and phenoxyethanol). Our Business efforts to improve our formulations, simplify our ingredients and incorporate more naturally sourced alternatives. Our approach is guided by rigorous Our North America website includes a master list of all ingredients used in our science and supported by meticulous internal and independent safety North America products, and we are piloting a new smart-label system to evaluations that ensure the quality and safety of all our products. provide consumers easier access to ingredient information. In Europe, lists of baby and child care ingredients can now be found on our brands’ websites. Our Strategy As we make changes, we’re also focused on increasing ingredient transparency to give our consumers peace of mind. But with hundreds of products around the world, incorporating thousands of ingredients, the path to transparency isn’t quite as easy as it sounds. We’re focused on publishing Better Lives Better ingredient information in our high-priority markets. In the future we plan to disclose all our ingredient information, giving consumers the data they need to make smart, informed choices.

Our aspiration is to use the safest ingredients, as defined by a science-based approach to product safety, and provide

Smallest Footprint Smallest open and transparent details about those ingredients.

Leadership Message Message Leadership Our policy is to design, manufacture and deliver Our product safety policy lays out our products that are safe and meet or exceed customer commitments in three key areas: and consumer expectations.

Each Kimberly-Clark business, function and facility is charged 1 Our Business with aligning to enterprise standards and maintaining quality Management Accountability systems that support these expectations. Our business unit presidents are responsible for ensuring the safety of our products and Kimberly-Clark also has programs and systems to ensure services, from initial introduction to ongoing we meet regulatory requirements in all regions where we reviews for regulatory compliance and Our Strategy operate. These requirements, along with industry best alignment with public safety expectations. practices and our own internal standards, define our quality and compliance criteria. We maintain programs to measure compliance against these standards and report results to 2 Better Lives Better senior management. The process of assuring compliance Safety Assessments across these stringent requirements drives continuous All our products undergo safety assessments improvement activities that ensure Kimberly-Clark products by qualified experts, in accordance with are safe and effective for consumers. international standards of human health risk.

We will never put anyone Across all our brands we are

Smallest Footprint Smallest at risk with a product we dedicated to meeting the 3 cannot appropriately highest standards for safety, Chemical Management ensure is safe for people and our consumers rely on Safety and environmental data is carefully Ingredients & Transparency Environment, Health & Safety and the environment. this commitment. collected and used to develop business Human Rights & Ethical Practices strategies for reducing, restricting or Inclusion & Diversity eliminating chemicals of concern, and Talent Development Caring for the Community advancing safer alternatives. Here a diaper is being inspected for quality at our Paris, TX facility. Doing the Right Thing Doing the Environment, 0.179 Total Reportable Our safety vision is to Incident Rate realize an incident-free (TRIR) in 2019 workplace

Leadership Message Message Leadership Health & Safety

* The Environmental Compliance Score is comprised of four different variables: (1) on-time closure of major audit findings; (2) Kimberly-Clark’s industry-leading performance we launched a transformation program %* on-time completion of audits; (3) on-time Our Business 98 closure of environmental compliance in workplace safety and environmental to elevate our EHS performance across EHS Compliance exception reports; and (4) completion of management are points of pride at our all Kimberly-Clark locations, including Score EHS self-assessment. company, yet we aspire to do better. manufacturing facilities, distribution centers, warehouses and office sites. This We are committed to protecting the lives of the standardized approach reinforces that Our Six EHS Imperatives Our Strategy people working in our facilities and living in our employees are accountable for doing the communities, which is why we work tirelessly right thing when it comes to the health and to improve our safety programs and set strict safety of our people and environmental requirements modeled after the ISO 14001 quality. Each site’s EHS maturity is measured Consistent EHS Workforce Better Lives Better standard to assure that our operations do not across three dimensions: leadership empowerment adversely impact the local environment. to drive impact Mindsets, behaviors 1 4 In 2019, we reorganized our Environment, 1 and capabilities Health & Safety (EHS) function to streamline Positive EHS Consistent and improve our processes for providing a 2 Risk reduction and interactions critical EHS Smallest Footprint Smallest safe working environment and conducting compliance work practices operations in compliance with laws, 2 5 regulations and best practices for health, Management systems modeled Ingredients & Transparency 3 Environment, Health & Safety safety and environmental protection. after the ISO 14001 standard Risk tolerance Aligned incentives Human Rights & Ethical Practices In conjunction with the reorganization, reduction and metrics Inclusion & Diversity Talent Development Caring for the Community 3 6 Doing the Right Thing Doing the Human Rights &

Leadership Message Message Leadership Ethical Practices

Kimberly-Clark’s values of authenticity, Our Code of Conduct and Human In recognition of our Our Business accountability, innovation and Rights in Employment Policy establish ethics policies and caring enable us to lead the world in Kimberly-Clark’s expectations and create practices, Kimberly- essentials for a better life. Our Ethics accountability with respect to human Clark was named one and Compliance Program fosters a rights and other ethical concerns. of the "World's Most culture of integrity that supports our Ethical Companies" in Our Strategy employees in living out these values This commitment extends beyond 2019 by the Ethisphere and ensures a workplace where all are our corporate walls to include our Institute, an independent treated with respect. suppliers’ employees and workplaces. research center that promotes best practices Better Lives Better in corporate ethics and governance. Smallest Footprint Smallest

Our policies guide our interaction with suppliers, partners, Key Elements in Our Human Rights Risk Mitigation Process for Kimberly-Clark Leadership Message Message Leadership customers and consumers worldwide, and are communicated Operations and Suppliers to them through our Supplier Social Compliance Standards. These expectations are an extension of Kimberly- 1 2 3 4 Clark’s commitments to our own people. Our Business Defining and Building internal and Using audits, self- Sharing supplier and Centered on our values, these supplier standards are aligned prioritizing our salient supplier capability to assessments and mill social compliance with international principles such as the International Labor human rights risks. proactively manage other tools to monitor data with internal and Organization’s Declaration on Fundamental Principles and these risks. performance and external stakeholders. Rights at Work. implement corrective Our Strategy measures to address gaps. The objective of our social compliance program is to proactively manage salient human rights risks across our supply chain. By holding ourselves and our suppliers Better Lives Better accountable, we help ensure that the hundreds of thousands of workers in our supply chain enjoy safe, fair and equitable working conditions. Smallest Footprint Smallest

To ensure that our manufacturing or training; development of new policies Leadership Message Message Leadership facilities and key suppliers are or procedures; or provision of remedy for meeting our standards for social affected workers. If needed, Kimberly- and environmental performance, we Clark may provide support to the supplier engage third-party auditors who use by sharing good practice examples or 150 a risk-based approach to measure connecting them with consultants or other facilities are Our Business compliance across key issue areas expert resources. We track completion of regularly including child labor, forced labor, the agreed corrective action plans through assessed discrimination, workplace health and evidence provided by the supplier and/or safety, and business integrity. through a follow-up audit. Our Strategy Our audit program assesses more than 150 In 2019, we met our social compliance targets, facilities annually in high-risk geographies with 100% of audited Kimberly-Clark facilities and industries, helping us identify non- demonstrating compliance with the core compliance and drive improvements. To avoid requirements of our Social Compliance Better Lives Better audit fatigue among suppliers, we adhere to Standards, as well as customer and licensor the principle of mutual recognition and may requirements. And 84% of suppliers that were 100% accept recent audit reports that have been audited in 2019 also conformed with the core of audited completed by accredited audit firms utilizing social compliance requirements. We continue Kimberly-Clark internationally recognized standards. to engage with the remaining noncompliant facilities suppliers to implement corrective action demonstrate

Smallest Footprint Smallest When a supplier is found to be in non- plans and improve their performance. compliance compliance with our Social Compliance Standards, Kimberly-Clark engages with the Ingredients & Transparency Environment, Health & Safety supplier to develop a corrective action plan. 84% Human Rights & Ethical Practices of audited Inclusion & Diversity Depending on the concerns raised, suppliers Talent Development Caring for the Community corrective actions could include supplier demonstrate

Doing the Right Thing Doing the investments in infrastructure, equipment compliance Supplier Engagement

We believe strongly that working with Beyond simply policing supplier compliance against our By working closely with suppliers to improve social compliance suppliers to improve their practices is the standards, we aim to work with them to drive meaningful practices, we strengthen our relationships and help to build most effective way for us to improve the improvement, through both direct engagement and long-term strategic partnerships. This not only allows us to have Leadership Message Message Leadership lives of the people working in their facilities. participation in multi-stakeholder initiatives like AIM- greater confidence that human rights are being respected across PROGRESS, a group of leading consumer goods companies our supply chain, but also helps to drive innovative solutions that that seeks to promote responsible sourcing practices and meet our consumers’ and customers’ needs, creating value from sustainable supply chains. source to shelf. Our Business

Going Beyond Audits Our Strategy

We recently deepened our emphasis also provided in-depth training on social discuss common challenges for responsible on building employee knowledge and compliance to nearly 100 manufacturing and sourcing and find ways to improve their capabilities on human rights. Through procurement colleagues in Asia-Pacific. business practices. The forum provided us an Better Lives Better training and other tools, we are enabling opportunity to promote responsible sourcing our operations and supplier-facing teams to Our commitment to capacity building standards throughout the supply chain and understand, identify and act on forced labor extends beyond our own operations. help suppliers gain a better understanding of and other potential human rights risks in the audit requirements. 350 supply chain. That is why we were proud to co-sponsor the Kimberly-Clark AIM-PROGRESS Responsible Sourcing Forum employees from our

Smallest Footprint Smallest For example, in 2019, over 350 procurement in Shanghai in October 2019. global procurement team members completed our Forced Labor team completed Awareness and Risk Mitigation Training Over 200 delegates from various China- our Forced Labor Ingredients & Transparency Environment, Health & Safety to recognize the signs of modern slavery based suppliers, including 30 delegates from Awareness and Risk Human Rights & Ethical Practices and understand how to raise concerns. We Kimberly-Clark suppliers, came together to Mitigation Training Inclusion & Diversity Talent Development Caring for the Community Doing the Right Thing Doing the Inclusion &

Leadership Message Message Leadership Diversity

For Kimberly-Clark to grow and prosper, we must build a more inclusive CEO Action & Check Your Blind Spots Our Business global organization that applies its diverse experiences and passions to brands that make life better for people all around the world. Kimberly-Clark is a signatory to the CEO Action for Diversity & Inclusion coalition, which commits businesses to advance inclusion and diversity That’s how we grow, and that’s how we make a difference. in the workplace. In 2019, more than 120 employees in Dallas, TX, Roswell, GA, Knoxville, TN, and Neenah, WI participated in CEO Action “Caring Our Strategy Our ability to gather insights, foster innovation and deliver Conversations” designed to build trust, encourage compassion and open- essential products hinges on having people that can mindedness, and reinforce our company’s commitment to inclusivity. understand our brands as well as the culture, context and mindset of all consumers. Kimberly-Clark locations were also stops on CEO Action’s “Check Your Blind Better Lives Better Spots” bus tour, which offers an immersive, interactive experience where Kimberly-Clark is purposeful about creating a culture and environment participants explore ways to mitigate unconscious bias in their everyday lives. that values every voice and utilizes every perspective. We work hard to attract and retain diverse talent, and to grow the representation of women (globally) and ethnic minorities (U.S.) in senior management Inclusion Weeks in Latin America positions. We welcome different ways of identifying solutions, and

Smallest Footprint Smallest encourage healthy, respectful disruption of the status quo. In 2019, our Latin America HR teams partnered with regional leaders to launch a series of Inclusion Weeks at our facilities in Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, We are proud to have earned recognition from leading Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Peru and Puerto Rico. Over the Ingredients & Transparency Environment, Health & Safety organizations for our approach to promoting and nurturing course of a week, all employees participated in workshops, talks and activities Human Rights & Ethical Practices a diverse and inclusive workplace. exploring multiple aspects of inclusion and diversity, including unconscious Inclusion & Diversity bias, women in leadership roles, generations in the workplace and other topics Talent Development Caring for the Community of local relevance. Doing the Right Thing Doing the Talent

Leadership Message Message Leadership Development

Developing leaders and top Employee Resource Groups Core Values Our Business talent is critical. To attract, engage, develop, reward and Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) Authentic: Our heritage is retain top talent, we value are an integral part of our talent one of honesty, integrity and a work environment that development strategy. These courageously doing the right fosters personal, professional voluntary organizations foster career thing. Our Strategy and corporate growth while development and mentorship, bring building a performance- together diverse backgrounds driven organization. and perspectives and serve as a Accountable: We take platform to advance talent goals. ownership for our business and Better Lives Better To ensure our leaders These groups also give back to our our future. are ready for more senior local communities through regular roles, we’ve implemented volunteer activities. several programs Innovative: We are committed including Culture Kimberly-Clark is proud to offer 10 to new ideas that add value to of Coaching, Team ERGs, with 60 chapters worldwide our customers, our business and

Smallest Footprint Smallest Leader Development that are open for all Kimberly-Clark our world. and General Manager employees to join. Development. Ingredients & Transparency Environment, Health & Safety Caring: We respect each other Human Rights & Ethical Practices and care for the communities Inclusion & Diversity where we live and work. Talent Development Caring for the Community Doing the Right Thing Doing the Caring for the

Leadership Message Message Leadership Community

Our caring value drives The Kimberly-Clark Foundation supports the social Our Business our culture, and we are responsibility efforts of the company and strives to committed to supporting help those in need gain essentials for better lives communities through through a range of health, humanitarian, economic company giving and and environmental initiatives. The Foundation, employee volunteerism. together with funding from the corporation and our Our Strategy employees, responds to causes and programs with financial contributions, donations of Kimberly-Clark products and volunteer time.

Better Lives Better Each year, employees from Kimberly-Clark facilities $28.3M around the world participate in a variety of volunteer total giving in 2019 activities with local nonprofit organizations.

The Kimberly-Clark Foundation’s Community Partners program recognizes the volunteer efforts of U.S.

Smallest Footprint Smallest employees and their spouses by making $500 grants to the charitable organizations at which they volunteer for 30 or more hours per year. Through our Ingredients & Transparency Environment, Health & Safety Kimberly-Clark Foundation’s Matching Gifts program, $1.32M Human Rights & Ethical Practices U.S. employees are able to double their donations to employee gifts Inclusion & Diversity qualified charitable organizations. matched in 2019 Talent Development Caring for the Community Doing the Right Thing Doing the United Way AmbientaDOS

For nearly 70 years, we have been a strong Our AmbientaDOS program has been Through the program, we have: supporter of United Way. In Kimberly-Clark investing in and promoting a culture communities throughout the United States we $2.5M of recycling in Costa Rica for ten Prevented more than 21,000 tons of material raise money through enthusiastic campaigns contributed to years. Kimberly-Clark Costa Rica was from entering landfills Leadership Message Message Leadership and participate in volunteer events. United Way in 2019 one of the first companies to adopt a responsible waste management Positively impacted 53 communities program in the country. Over the past decade, Kimberly-Clark Costa Rica, Established alliances with 13 private companies in alliance with Telenoticias de Canal Our Business 7, has collected valuable recycling Partnered with 14 municipalities and materials throughout the country. 36 collection centers

Providing Products for Those Who Need Them Most Our Strategy

We provide essentials for a better life to one quarter of the world’s population every day, yet billions of people still lack access to products. All over the world, our employees are responding to that need. From Diaper Repack events at our Neenah, Wisconsin, campus to packing bags Better Lives Better with necessities for Share the Dignity's "It's In The Bag" initiative in Australia, we are working hard to give back in the communities where we work and live. Smallest Footprint Smallest

Better Lives Better Report Smallest Footprint Smallest Doing the Right Thing Doing the