Roche Holding

Carbon per million dollars of revenue. The legacy industry-standard reference (CDP, MSCI). Useful for cross-sector context, but distorted by margin — high-margin firms appear artificially efficient. Read alongside the operational and asset intensities for the full picture.

OpEx (operating expenditure) is the running cost of the business — staff, services, energy, materials. This shows how carbon-intensive operations are per million dollars of spend. Removes the margin distortion that revenue-based ratios introduce.

EVIC (Enterprise Value Including Cash) is the firm's total capital footprint — equity + debt + cash + minority interest. The EU's standard intensity measure (SFDR PAI 3) — answers: how much carbon does each million of capital deployed in this business produce?

PP&E (Property, Plant & Equipment) plus leased real-estate assets is the firm's physical infrastructure on the balance sheet. This shows the carbon intensity of that physical footprint — uses Scope 1+2+3 for consistency with the other headline intensities. Surfaces stranded-asset risk for asset-heavy firms.

Since 2016, RDI has sourced all purchased electricity exclusively from renewable sources. On-site photovoltaic systems have been steadily expanded over the past five years — first PV on parking garage roofs in 2019, on Building 10 in 2023, and on Buildings 1 and 9 in 2024. Approximately 6% of the site's electrical energy is now produced locally from on-site PV. Scope 2 emissions have been zero since 2016 as a result.

Roche explicitly does not currently purchase or use voluntary carbon offsets, and is committed to achieving 'real zero' Scope 1 & 2 emissions by 2050 'without just reverting to buying CO2 reduction certificates'. The firm strives for real reductions in the supply chain (Scope 3) through real reductions and real compensations rather than offset purchases. No DAC/BECCS/nature-based removals pipeline is disclosed.

• Scope 1 & 2 energy consumption reduction (-10% per employee)

  5-year goal to reduce Scope 1 & 2 energy consumption by 10% on a fossil fuel equivalent GJ/employee basis vs 2019 baseline. Scope 1 includes privately owned cars used for business purposes. Underpinned by site-level invoice data on electricity and gas.

• Phase-out of natural gas heating via heat pumps and geothermal

  The Building Technology Engineering department has developed an action plan to operate RDI's entire building portfolio on renewable energy. Building 13 (last oil-heated building) was demolished in 2023. Geothermal energy is being used for process heat in reagent production (2024 milestone). The new Building 15 will operate without fossil fuels using reversible heat pumps powered by green electricity and large PV systems.

• Business travel / flights reduction

  Business flights are the largest mobility energy demand and the dominant Scope 3 driver. RDI flew approximately 27 million km in 2024 — increasing post-pandemic but still below 2019 pre-COVID levels. Scope 3 emissions track flight kilometres closely.

• Circular construction — Building 15 modular wood

  New Building 15 uses wooden construction (16,000 m³ roundwood, 5,000 m³ spruce/fir, 2,400 m³ beech) with modular design enabling component reuse after deconstruction. Savings vs conventional: 3,600 m³ concrete, 1,000 t cement, 750 t steel. Operates without fossil fuels via reversible heat pumps + PV.

• Sustainable electricity procurement for own operations

  100% sustainable electricity by 2025 goal underpinned by site-level invoice data, energy attribute certificate retirement, and market-based Scope 2 accounting. Sites covered represent ~98% of operational carbon emissions.

• Business travel / flight emissions reduction (-15% per employee)

  Goal to reduce GHG emissions from business flights by 15% per employee vs 2019 baseline. KPI excludes trains, buses, taxis and hotels. Activity data is air passenger-kilometres by booking class from travel providers, with UK BEIS conversion factors.

• Supplier-specific data for purchased goods & capital goods (Cat 1 & 2)

  Scope 3 Cat 1 and Cat 2 use a hybrid approach: EEIO spend-based factors (WiFOR WISIT) where activity-based factors (ecoinvent) are unavailable. Roche continually aims to move toward supplier-specific data to improve accuracy and actionability for purchased goods and capital goods — Cat 1 is high-materiality given diversity of Roche spend.

• Use of sold products (Cat 11) — Diagnostics instrument electricity

  Use-of-sold-product emissions are primarily from electricity consumed by Roche Diagnostics instruments in customer locations. Emissions calculated from the electricity consumption of Roche's globally installed instrument base by country using IEA country-average emission factors. Decarbonisation depends on customer-grid greening and instrument energy efficiency.

• Scope 3 reduction (-15% per employee) across value chain

  5-year goal to reduce Scope 3 GHG emissions by 15% per employee vs 2019 baseline. Long-term: 90% absolute reduction across Scope 3 by 2045 (SBTi submission pending). Categories tracked include Cat 1-6, 11, 12 with sector-standard factors (UK BEIS, IPCC, ecoinvent, IEA, DIN EN 16258).

• Sustainable product design (LightCycler PRO ACT Label)

  LightCycler PRO redesign achieved ~30% weight dematerialisation, 24% packaging volume reduction, and 2.8 kWh/day in-use energy consumption. Reusable shippers introduced in manufacturing. First Roche product and first IVD instrument to receive ACT Environmental Impact Factor Label.

• Supplier packaging guidelines

  Packaging guidelines for suppliers introduced in 2024 to reduce inbound packaging and waste.