The Sustainability Committee is chaired by the Deputy CEO. The committee members are nominated by the CEO, and currently include the heads of all product areas and relevant corporate staff units. The Sustainability Committee is responsible for:

• formulating corporate policy and strategy on environmental and corporate social responsibility issues;
• ensuring that these policies and strategies are well established and respected throughout the Group;
• co-ordinating and following up relations and communications with stakeholders such as governmental and non-governmental organisations;
• taking initiatives for the development of relevant management procedures;
• producing the annual Sustainability Report.

The Sustainability Committee has four support teams whose role is to address sustainability issues throughout Stora Enso’s value chain, and to monitor, assess and publicise emerging issues in order to promote the implementation of the Group’s sustainability policies and strategies. The support teams are:

• the Environment Co-ordination Team
• the Customer Support Team
• the Corporate Social Responsibility Team
• the Forest Environment Team.

As the chairman of the Sustainability Committee, the Deputy CEO has overall responsibility for sustainability issues in Stora Enso and together with the CEO must make decisions on strategic and policy issues. The Deputy CEO is also a member of Stora Enso’s Board of Directors.

Operational management is responsible for sustainability performance at each organisational level, in order to guarantee compliance with the Group’s commitments. The corporate environmental and CSR units closely support the Group’s business operations and staff functions.