No deforestation across our primary commodities most at risk of deforestation.

We have developed and are engaging suppliers to implement commodity-specific action plans to address our deforestation risks. This work also contributes to our forest, land and agriculture (FLAG) Scope 3 emissions reductions target.

Through our deforestation risk assessment, we identified our most at risk commodities:

• Beef
• Fiber associated with paper packaging
• Palm oil
• Soy

Wendy’s engages with U.S. Roundtable for Sustainable Beef (USRSB) and Canadian Roundtable for Sustainable Beef and collaborates with both organizations to encourage grazing management. As part of our partnership with USRSB, we are aligned with the group’s sector-level targets for land resources. We also seek to support cattle producers as they pursue sustainable practices through our participation in the Lagacy Landscapes Program and AgSpire’s Fresh Resilience Beef Cattle Program.

We are working to certify more palm oil within our supply chain through the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO).

We are acting to address traceability challenges for this commodity by transitioning our sourcing of fiber-based packaging to certified sustainable options, such as Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) and Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI).

Through our risk assessment, we learned that our actual risk tied to soy is relatively low based on where we source soy directly, how and where we source our proteins, and where those proteins are utilizing soy within feed.