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Sustainability

Read our 2024 Sustainability Report.

Committed to Everyday Responsibility

We have a strong legacy of creating meaningful social impact and fulfilling our role as environmental stewards. This positive impact is possible with the commitment of our employees, who continue to take our company to new levels of sustainability performance.

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CEO Message

From our President and Chief Executive Officer

At Clearwater Paper, we craft essential products that enhance everyday life for our customers. We do this while maintaining high standards of quality, working safely, engaging with our communities and serving as responsible stewards of our natural resources. We call this Everyday Responsibility.

This is the sustainability framework that we introduced in 2023. It integrates our key sustainability priorities into three pillars: Resource Stewardship, Trusted Products and Thriving People and Communities. In our latest sustainability report, you’ll find detailed information regarding our progress, achievements and ongoing initiatives within each of these pillars. 

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Key 2023 highlights include:

  • Developing a roadmap to help meet our 2030 Scope 1 and 2 emissions targets, which have been approved by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi). 
  • Receiving the International Sustainability and Carbon Certification (ISCC) Plus certification as part of our work with Charter Next Generation (CNG). 
  • Establishing an enhanced philanthropy program to support our local communities. 
  • Implementing our engagement and inclusion strategy that supports employees, candidates and the communities where we live and work. 

All our people play a role – every day – in ensuring that we make and deliver excellent products in sustainable ways and work respectfully with our stakeholders and each other. As we look to 2025, we will continue to look for ways to improve, scale and diversify our paperboard business. The one thing that will not change is our commitment to sustainability and our people. 

Sincerely,
Arsen S. Kitch
President & Chief Executive Office

Our Sustainability Approach

At Clearwater Paper we are driven to create indispensable products that people use every day. With this comes a responsibility to ensure high quality and a commitment to being stewards of our natural resources. This is our Everyday Responsibility.

For us, it is about making responsible sourcing choices across our supply chain, operating ethically, safely and sustainably, and empowering the people behind our products. Everyday Responsibility is our sustainability framework that guides us to make products consumers can feel good about, while striving to be a company that customers are excited to partner with, our employees are proud to work for and that our communities can count on.

Our Approach Framework

Our Focus Areas

Clearwater Paper centers our sustainability work and initiatives on three distinct yet equally important pillars.