5 The Hershey Company | 2021 ESG Report The Big Picture The Big Picture Our Company Cocoa Responsible Sourcing and Human Rights Environment Our People Youth Community About This Report Spotlight 2021 We want to drive positive and Making a Bigger Commitment lasting change around the to Combat Climate Change world. Using our expertise Addressing climate change and meeting and strong partnerships, the goals of the Paris Agreement demands change in how our world works and the we’re responding to global way we use resources. To play our part, we challenges with local care. Becoming Stronger Together announced science-based greenhouse gas Investing in our people is always a worthwhile (GHG) reduction goals in March 2021. The goal investment. From building more inclusive commits us to cutting our absolute Scope 1 and Supporting Our Communities workplaces to supporting employee wellness, Scope 2 emissions by 50% and our absolute Working to Eliminate Child Through COVID-19 we are continuously finding more ways to better Scope 3 emissions by 25% by 2030, against support the Hershey workforce of today and a 2018 baseline. We’re already taking action Labor in Cocoa The global pandemic continued to impact tomorrow. Through our Pathways Project we to meet our goal, including signing power Our investment in cocoa communities is communities around the world throughout committed to achieving a college recruiting purchase agreements (PPAs) that will enable continuing to help improve lives in West 2021. When the Delta variant threatened portfolio that is at least 50% diverse. To help the construction of three new utility-scale Africa. To monitor, prevent and remediate in-person learning in fall 2021, we revived our us meet this target, we added 23 Historically solar farms. We also made substantial progress instances of child labor, we remain committed mask distribution program. We dispatched over Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and toward our Scope 1 and 2 emissions targets to 100% sourcing visibility by 2025 for farmers 575,000 masks to nonprofits and students Hispanic-serving Institutions (HSIs) to our through improvements in energy efficiency. in Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana, and continue to across dozens of school districts. When the roster of schools we recruit from. We are also To reduce value chain emissions (Scope 3), we ensure 100% of the cocoa volume we source pandemic devastated India, our local team incredibly proud to have been named as the committed to eliminate commodity-driven in these countries is covered by a Child Labor acted rapidly by distributing 500 oxygen World’s Top Female Friendly Company by deforestation from our ingredient supply Monitoring and Remediation System (CLMRS) concentrators to hospitals across the country. Forbes for the inaugural ranking. We continue chains by 2030 and are investing in sustainable by 2025. In 2021, Hershey supported CLMRS In addition, we made a $50,000 commitment to offer SmartFlex benefits programs that packaging solutions. covered nearly 103,000 children, and we expect with nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) enable employees to achieve a better work/life For more information, see page 49. to increase that to approximately 125,000 GiveIndia and Milaap to assist hospitals with balance and our programs to provide resources children by 2025. In addition, through our procuring ventilators, oxygen concentrators that support physical and mental health. Energize Learning school feeding program, and cylinders. Our Hershey Brazil team donated Hershey is distributing ViVi, a highly nutritious $169,000 for pandemic relief, which was used For more information, see page 67. peanut-based therapeutic food, to 45,000 to provide food baskets, hospital materials and children daily in Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana. equipment. In the U.S., we organized multiple on-site vaccine clinics for employees and their For more information, see page 24. dependents (aged five and over) who wanted to get vaccinated or receive a booster shot. We also continued our flexible working conditions so that corporate employees could keep working from home and via a hybrid in-office work environment. We focused on the health and safety of all our employees working in-person by continuing to provide proper personal protective equipment (PPE), COVID-19 antigen home tests and physically distanced workspaces. More information about Hershey’s actions providing pandemic support in 2021 may be found throughout the 2021 ESG Report.