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Advancing Our Sustainability Goals

About This Report Sysco At-A-Glance Integrating Our Purpose and Recipe for Growth Strategy Advancing Our Sustainability Goals Our Purpose in Action Leadership Perspectives

In FY2022, we continued to drive progress across these areas by working toward our 2025 sustainability goals.

PEOPLE

Global Sustainability Focus Areas

Sysco 2025 Goals1 and Progress Philanthropy & Community Giving

Goal: Generate $500 million worth of good in our global communities. Progress: Generated $231 million2 Goal: Increase total gender and ethnic diversity of U.S.based associates to 62%. Progress: Achieved

Goal: Increase spend with certified diverse suppliers by 25%3 . Progress: Increased spend with certified diverse suppliers by 7.8% vs. last year Goal: Double associate participation rates in health and well-being programs. Progress: Increased participation by 18% in CY2021

Goal: Expand products in our portfolio with health and wellness benefits. Progress: Expanded “betterfor-you” options in our Cutting Edge Solutions platform

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Health & Wellness

PRODUCTS

Global Sustainability Focus Areas

Sysco 2025 Goals1 and Progress Responsible Sourcing

Goal: Establish responsible sourcing guidelines for five key commodities. Progress: Established commitments for beef, paper, soy and coffee Goal: Ensure that all first-tier, high-risk suppliers agree to the Supplier Code of

Conduct principles. Progress: Completed 175 Sysco Brand facility audits Goal: Ensure that all

Sysco Brand protein suppliers adhere to requirements laid out in our Animal Welfare

Policy for Suppliers. Progress: Returned to pre-Covid audit practices in FY2022 to continue engaging suppliers

Human Rights Animal Welfare

PLANET

Global Sustainability Focus Areas

Sysco 2025 Goals1 and Progress Sustainable Agriculture

Goal: Expand our Sustainable Agriculture program to include five fresh crops. Progress: Achieved and doubled to include 10 fresh crops

Goal: Reduce our Scope 1 and 2 emissions by 27.5% by 2030 from a CY2019 base year. Progress: Committed to purchasing up to 800 electric trucks and piloted an electric refrigeration trailer. Installed solar panel array system to meet over 15% of energy needs in Britain

Goal: Work with suppliers representing 67% of our

Scope 3 emissions4 to set science-based targets by 2026. Progress: Sysco suppliers representing 27% of our CY2019 Scope 3 emissions have committed to or set their own reduction goals5

Goal: Divert 90% of waste, including food, from landfill. Progress: Diverted 67% of waste

Energy & Carbon Waste Reduction

1 U.S. only unless specified. 2 Includes pledged monetary donations. 3 Sysco’s original goal, established in FY2018, included both certified and self-selected diverse suppliers and only accounted for minority- and women-owned suppliers. For FY2021 and beyond, we will only include certified diverse suppliers in our reporting. In alignment with our expanded definition of diverse suppliers, we will also include businesses owned by veterans, LGBTQ+ individuals and those who are disabled, in addition to businesses owned by minorities and/or women. 4 Focusing on purchased goods and services and upstream transportation suppliers. 5 Because of shifts in our operations that took place during the COVID-19 pandemic, Sysco experienced a steep reduction in emissions from 2019 to 2020. As regular operations return, we expect to see a rise in our emissions, which will again drop as we achieve progress toward our 2030 goals.

Sysco Global businesses are actively contributing to achieving this goal.

Sysco Canada is actively contributing to achieving this goal.

Sysco European businesses are actively contributing to achieving this goal.

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