DALLAS, TX – June 16, 2025 – Kimberly-Clark (NASDAQ: KMB) today released its 2024 Sustainability Report, highlighting its recent progress toward its 2030 environmental and social impact goals.

Key highlights of the company's 2024 progress include:

• Social Impact: The company’s brand programs, combined with global and local partnerships, positively impacted more than 120 million people in need. This included helping empower women and girls, enhancing maternal and child health, and working to improve access to safe water and sanitation.  
• Energy & Climate: Kimberly-Clark increased its use of renewable electricity to over 39% of global purchases, accelerating its onsite solar program as well as establishing new virtual Power Purchase Agreements. The company has reduced its Scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions by 43% since 2015.
• Responsible Sourcing: Updated its Forests, Land and Agriculture Policy to reinforce its commitment to forest conservation and further reduced its use of Natural Forest Fibers, achieving an overall reduction of 40% since 2015.
• Water Stewardship: Reduced its water use by 55% in water-stressed areas since 2015, surpassing the company’s 50% target.

“At Kimberly-Clark, our purpose—Better Care for a Better World—is what motivates us every day to make a real difference in people’s lives. This means not only delivering the essential products that people rely on every day but also doing so in a way that benefits people and the communities where we operate and the environment we depend on,” said Lisa Morden, Chief Sustainability Officer at Kimberly-Clark.

“We believe that these efforts strengthen our ability to meet complex sustainability challenges while delivering greater value to consumers, customers, employees, and stakeholders.”

Looking ahead, Kimberly-Clark has set an ambition to be 100% Natural Forest Free across its product portfolio beyond 2030, with plans to be more than halfway to this goal by the end of the decade.

Kimberly-Clark's annual sustainability report is available on the company’s website.

The report and accompanying disclosures demonstrate Kimberly-Clark’s progress through stories that highlight its work around the world, as well as the different aspects of its governance, oversight, policies, programs, and performance on the sustainability issues that the company is focused on. An Appendix to this report includes key data and metrics prepared in accordance with the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB), the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Standards, and the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosure (TCFD) framework for the period of January 1, 2024, to December 31, 2024. For more information on the topics in this report, please visit Kimberly-Clark.com.