May 17, 2023
In my role on Union Pacific’s Sustainability Team, I get to discuss our sustainability story with many of those same Americans. These customers, communities, employees and shareholders are telling us they increasingly care about issues beyond profits and losses - such as our impact on the environment, how well we provide safe and inclusive workplaces for our employees, and how we support the communities we touch. It’s clear to me that Union Pacific truly succeeds when we help all our stakeholders succeed for the long term.
Union Pacific’s recently released annual sustainability report, which we call the 2022 Building America Report, is our public report card on the 16 sustainability topics our internal and external stakeholders told us were the most important, relevant and impactful for our business. Each section of the report details our progress and initiatives on one of those 16 topics. Here are a few highlights:
We are committed to improving the relevance and transparency of our disclosures in all our sustainability reporting, because transparency builds trust and improves our own accountability. This year’s Building America Report contains twice as many statistics about our company’s sustainability performance versus last year’s report. We have a good story to tell, and we are constantly looking to improve our performance.
Lastly, some of these topics are big enough to receive their own entire report! For a deeper dive, the Building America Report provides hyperlinks to our separate reports that detail how UP invests in our workforce, approaches climate change, and conducts effective and transparent corporate governance.
My ancestors belonged to the original crews that built the Union Pacific across our nation. They knew they were building a railroad not just for themselves and their families, but for all Americans, then and in the future. Union Pacific employees are proud of our progress on our sustainability initiatives. Our actions contribute to a sustainable world for our workforce, our customers, our communities and our shareholders for generations to come.