SUSTAINABILITY 20 IN OUR NATURE  INTERNATIONAL PAPER SUSTAINABILITY IS  IN OUR NATURE— IT IMPACTS THE WAY WE VIEW AND  OPERATE OUR BUSINESS. Sustainability is integral to International Paper’s vision of becoming one of the best and most respected companies  in the world. As the world’s largest user of wood fiber, our story begins in the forest and extends across the entire  life cycle of our products. Sustainability touches every aspect of our business, from our employees and communities  to our supply chain and manufacturing processes. We continuously strive to improve our efficiency and shrink  our environmental footprint. To that end, we created a set of 12 voluntary sustainability goals that address water use  and quality, fiber certification, employee safety, community involvement, solid waste, fiber efficiency, greenhouse  gas and air emissions, energy efficiency, recycling and supply chain. Through our 58,000 dedicated team members  worldwide, International Paper will continue to focus on generating deliberate, continuous and sustainable  improvement, and applying what we learn across every area of the company. Globally, International Paper’s sustainability efforts  continue to evolve. Through a continuous review   process, we identify opportunities that make us better;  better at improving our environmental footprint, better  at supporting the communities where we live and  operate and better at ensuring the safety of our  employees.  Our initiatives also support our customers and our  shareholders by improving our financial performance  and mitigating risk; that’s good for everyone. In 2014 our work with internal and external stakeholders  led us to focus on six key sustainability areas: safety,  forests and ecosystem services, water use in our 