Position on Responsible
Wood Fiber Sourcing
Background
Forests are a vital resource, critical to the health of all the people, plants and animals that
inhabit our planet. They provide us with oxygen, food and medicine. They also sustain
ecosystem services such as water purification, and the mitigation of natural hazards likedroughts, floods and landslides. Today, forests cover approximately 30% of the land area onEarth; approximately 300 million people worldwide live in forests; and 1.6 billion people
depend on forests for their livelihoods.1
Forests also play an important role in mitigating climate change. When forests are cut, burnedor otherwise removed they no longer act as a carbon sink, but instead emit carbon, which
contributes to changes in climate patterns.
Growing demand for wood-fiber based products and packaging has raised stakeholder
concerns about links not only to environmental impacts such as deforestation, conversion ofhigh-conservation value forests to plantation forests, and illegal harvesting, but also humanrights abuses and social conflicts related to land use.
Our Approach
Kenvue is committed to protecting our planet, biodiversity, and the vital resources upon which
we all rely, today and in the future. Conserving the world’s forests and respecting humanrights are essential to both environmental and human health.
While Kenvue does not own or manage forests, we do purchase paper and wood-fiberproducts. We recognize that we can play a role in supporting responsible forestry through oursourcing of these materials. Kenvue is committed to eliminating deforestation 2 and respecting
human rights in its wood-fiber supply chains. However, Kenvue cannot eliminate deforestation
on its own; we are reliant on multi-stakeholder collaboration and transformation of upstream
supply chains. Our Position on Responsible Wood-Fiber Sourcing and annual progress
updates outline the actions Kenvue is taking to support the supply chain transformations that1

https://www.worldwildlife.org/threats/deforestation
In accordance with the definitions of the Accountability Framework Initiative, deforestation is defined as the loss of natural forest as
a result of: i) conversion to agriculture or other non-forest land use; ii) conversion to a plantation; or iii) severe and sustaineddegradation.
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are necessary to protect the environment and the people in the paper and wood-fiber supplychains.
Our Sourcing Principles
As a company with global supply chains, Kenvue strives to work with suppliers that share acommon set of values, comply with all applicable laws and regulations, and adhere to ourexpectations for supplier business conduct, human rights and labor practices, workplacesafety and environmental stewardship.
We have worked with Rainforest Alliance, a trusted, global nonprofit organization with 30years of experience in forestry and responsible forest practice, to develop and implement
specific sourcing requirements for the wood-fiber product suppliers from which we buy
directly. We expect these suppliers to:• Provide supply chain transparency and traceability• Respect human rights in their own operations and business relationships• Partner and collaborate to effect positive industry change• Work to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions and pollutant emissions associatedwith their supply chains
We expect our suppliers to meet the sourcing requirements above and to ensure the sourcesof the paper and wood-fiber products they supply to Kenvue are:
• Harvested and traded in compliance with all national and local laws and international
labor standards;• Harvested in a manner that respects human rights and traditional rights, including acommitment to secure the UN-recognized right to Free, Prior and Informed Consent(FPIC) for activities that may affect indigenous people’s and local community rights,land, resources and livelihoods;• Harvested in a manner that protects high-conservation value forests;• Not harvested from an area that is being converted to plantation or non-forest use;
• Not developed on peatland; and• Not from areas cleared of natural forest after December 31, 2020.

Our Commitments
Kenvue is committed to zero deforestation and to ensuring the paper-based packaging wepurchase directly originates from low-risk sources.3 Specifically, we will achieve 100%
certified4 or verified recycled5 paper and wood fiber packaging by 2025. 6,7

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Low-risk source is defined as material that is either (i) Forest Stewardship Council (FSC®) or Programme for the Endorsement ofForest Certification (PEFC) certified, (ii) post-consumer recycled content, (iii) traced back to country of harvest and assigned a lowrisk categorization at country level using Preferred by Nature’s Timber Sourcing Hub, or (iv) demonstrates other approved methodsof verifying low risk.
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Certification schemes accepted by Kenvue include FSC® or PEFC chain of custody standard, only when FSC® is not available.
5
Recycled includes both post-consumer and post-industrial recycled content; Verification of recycled content would by conducted by
an external third party (for example, Rainforest Alliance).
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The goal will be met by end of fiscal year and published the year after.
7Includes direct purchases of primary and secondary packaging and leaflets; does not include the packaging materials in someexternal manufactured products.

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Our Due Diligence Process
Our sourcing principles apply to all paper and wood-fiber products that we purchase directly,
and we verify compliance with our sourcing principles for 100% of our direct spend on
cartons, corrugates and leaflets. Our due diligence process includes an additional focus on
suppliers located in regions with a heightened risk for deforestation.
With the support of a third-party validator, we conduct an annual supplier risk assessment tomaintain supply chain transparency, validate supplier product claims, materials certifications,and verify conformance to our sourcing principles and commitments.
When an instance of nonconformance to our responsible paper and wood-fiber productsourcing requirements is reported to or identified by Kenvue, we require our direct supplier todevelop and implement a time-bound corrective action plan (CAP), approved by Kenvue. In
cases where there is insufficient progress against a CAP or a lack of responsiveness to ourrequest to correct the nonconformance, as a last resort, we may make the decision to cease
purchasing the product from nonconforming producers. We continually qualify alternative
sources to promote sustained supply chain resiliency.
Our Progress
We commit to providing annual updates on our progress through the RSPO AnnualCommunication on Progress and on our website.
Last Updated: November 2023