Weyerhaeuser Co

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Direct Lobbying Transparency

Overall Assessment	Comment	Score
Comprehensive	Weyerhaeuser provides a highly detailed picture of its climate-related advocacy. It names multiple specific pieces of legislation it has tried to influence, including the Clean Power Plan, the Inflation Reduction Act, and the 2022 USDA Farm Bill, as well as work on the Forest-Climate Working Group platform and federal green-building standards, demonstrating full transparency on the policies it targets. The company also spells out how it lobbies and who it approaches: it cites “coalition building, relationship building, advocacy, political contributions and grassroots activities,” says it works “with federal agencies and elected officials,” and identifies concrete targets such as Congress, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the Department of Defense and the General Services Administration, while describing indirect engagement through trade associations like the National Alliance of Forest Owners and the American Wood Council. Finally, Weyerhaeuser is explicit about what it wants from policymakers, calling for climate rules that “recognize carbon dioxide emissions from biomass as carbon neutral,” for a “robust market-based program that allows credit for the sequestration and storage of carbon,” for a 10-year extension of renewable electricity production tax credits and higher carbon-sequestration incentives, and for broader use of wood-friendly, life-cycle-based building standards in federal projects. By clearly identifying the policies, the methods and the concrete outcomes it pursues, the company demonstrates a comprehensive level of transparency around its climate lobbying activities.	4

Lobbying Governance

Overall Assessment	Comment	Score
Moderate	Weyerhaeuser Co. has put in place a general governance structure for lobbying oversight, with “public policy and legislative priorities … reviewed regularly with senior business leaders and at least annually with our board of directors’ Governance and Corporate Responsibility Committee,” and with “all political contributions … managed by our government affairs team under a general delegation of authority from our general counsel.” This framework covers its climate-related advocacy efforts, under which the company states it “support[s] climate policies that recognize managed, productive forests and wood products as part of the solution to climate change,” “recognize[s] carbon dioxide emissions from biomass as carbon neutral,” and “if legislation is proposed to address climate change, we support federal action rather than state-specific solutions.” However, we found no evidence of any targeted process to monitor or align indirect lobbying via its membership in “more than 100 local, regional, provincial and national associations,” no specialized audit or third-party review of climate lobbying alignment, and “No, and we do not plan to have one in the next two years” regarding a Paris-Agreement-aligned public commitment.	2