Dow Publishes 2021 ESG Annual Report

● The annual report highlights Dow's comprehensive progress in important areas such as environmental protection, social progress and responsibility governance

● Easy access to data and disclosures consistent with key ESG reporting frameworks

● Received limited assurance against GRI standards, and Scope 1 and Scope 1 emissions comply with GHG reporting standards

The Dow Company recently released its second annual Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Integrated Report, further underscoring its commitment to transparency in data disclosure and how the company is providing solutions to global challenges and creating long-term value for all stakeholders And put in the effo.

Dow's Intersections ESG report reflects the interdependence between environment and society, innovation and science, collaboration and acti.

"The challenges we face in our local and global communities are increasingly complex and interconnected, requiring collaborative and integrated approaches," said Jim Fitterling, Dow Chairman and C.

The report is based on full-year 2021 data and key highlights include:

Execute decarbonization and growth pla.

· Develop detailed plans to reduce CO2 emissions from the Terneuzen manufacturing site in the Netherlands by more than 40% by 203

· The total amount of renewable energy available exceeds 900 megawatts, securing Dow as one of the world's 20 largest users of renewable and clean ener.

Accelerate investments in sustainable areas, enhance the renewable nature of products from the design side, and introduce more circular plasti.

Announced a commitment to deliver recycled polymers based on advanced renewable technologies by the end of 202

· Invest in collaborative action to minimize and manage plastic waste through partnerships such as the Clear Plastic Waste Action Coaliti.

Take careful action to promote inclusion, diversity and equi.

· Exceed the relevant annual improvement targets in the proportion of American minorities (26%), global female employees (29%), and global female leaders (33.

· Where permitted by law, link inclusion and diversity metrics to the annual performance reward program for all executive-level employees and senior manageme.

Mobilize a broad coalition of stakeholders to drive meaningful social chan.

Join the OneTen Enterprise Alliance, which promises to help 1 million Black Americans upskill, increase employment, and advance their careers over the next deca.

· $2 million to fund seed funding projects in 12 countries around the world, including infrastructure projects to prevent plastic waste from polluting the environment and re-enter the circular econo.

Improve corporate governance, increase transparency, and improve accountabili.

· Improve ESG reporting and disclosure standards through improved carbon emissions reporting, improved climate risk disclosure and GHG intensity metri.

· Dow's Board of Directors moves further towards diversity, electing three new members in 2021 and 202

· Working with the World Economic Forum's International Business Council to help develop a consistent international framework for ESG reporting and accounting standar.

The 2021 Intersections ESG report includes relevant disclosures based on the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) standards, including: Integrated Options and the Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Accounting Syst.

In addition to GRI and GHG, the report reflects disclosures consistent with the Task Force on Climate Change-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD), the Sustainable Accounting Standards Board (SASB) and the World Economic Forum (WEF) Stakeholder Capital Performance Indicato.

The Dow Company has engaged Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu CPA firm to provide a review of the disclosure results for the year ended December 31, 2021, prepared and reported by company management in accordance with the GRI’s Sustainability Reporting Standards under the Integrated Option Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions disclosures for the year ended December 31, 2021, prepared and reported in accordance with the Corporate Accounting and Reporting Standards for the Year ended December 31, 202