Primary: 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.
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10-year ambition: 50% reduction in total environmental impact by 2029 Roche has a 10-year ambition (2029) for a 50% reduction of total environmental impact compared to 2019.
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New PV systems on building 1 and building 9 Photovoltaic systems installed on buildings 1 and 9 in 2024. Approximately 6% of required electrical energy is now produced locally.
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Sustainability Strategy rolled out globally In 2024, Roche rolled out a new global Sustainability Strategy with six priorities: access to innovation, health equity, work environment, climate change (net zero), sustainable products, biodiversity & water.
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Wastewater pretreatment plant commissioned In 2024, a wastewater pretreatment plant was commissioned to pretreat industrial wastewater from reagent production, reducing liquid hazardous waste volumes going forward.
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Dependent: 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.
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Dependent: 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.
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Dependent: 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).
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80% recycling rate target by 2025 RDI targets an 80% recycling rate by 2025. In 2024, 74% of disposed waste was recycled.
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100% renewable purchased electricity since 2016, on-site PV expanding 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.
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