Roche Holding — full event log
Every event we have on file across every reporting year. The Data-by-year tab summarises the top 10 per year; this page shows them all.
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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.
sustainability_report p.6
Roche has a 10-year ambition (2029) for a 50% reduction of total environmental impact compared to 2019.
sustainability_report p.1
Photovoltaic systems installed on buildings 1 and 9 in 2024. Approximately 6% of required electrical energy is now produced locally.
sustainability_report p.12
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.
sustainability_report p.2
In 2024, a wastewater pretreatment plant was commissioned to pretreat industrial wastewater from reagent production, reducing liquid hazardous waste volumes going forward.
sustainability_report p.16
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.
sustainability_report p.12
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.
sustainability_report p.13
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).
sustainability_report p.6
RDI targets an 80% recycling rate by 2025. In 2024, 74% of disposed waste was recycled.
sustainability_report p.15
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.
sustainability_report p.17
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.
sustainability_report p.17
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.
sustainability_report p.18
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.
sustainability_report p.7
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.
sustainability_report p.11
Packaging guidelines for suppliers introduced in 2024 to reduce inbound packaging and waste.
sustainability_report p.12
Roche submitted near-term and long-term net zero targets to SBTi for third-party verification in October 2024: reduce absolute Scope 1, 2 and 3 GHG emissions by 90% by 2045 from a 2022 base year. Validation pending.
sustainability_report p.1
Roche explicitly discloses it does not currently purchase or use voluntary carbon offsets, and does not currently claim to have achieved net zero or carbon neutrality for any entities or products.
sustainability_report p.7
Environmental key performance data verified by independent third-party assurers with limited assurance. Group selects which sites are to be verified each year. Data assured as part of Roche's Annual Report 2025.
sustainability_report p.5
Roche has a 5-year goal (2020-2025) to achieve 100% sustainable electricity. Scope 2 is calculated using the market-based methodology per GHG Protocol Scope 2 Guidance. Sustainable electricity is defined as coming from sources replenished at least as fast as consumed without significant environmental/social harm. The mechanism for claiming environmental attributes is retirement of associated energy attribute certificates (EACs) — either by Roche or by the supplier on Roche's behalf. Applies to ~98% of Roche's operational carbon emissions.
sustainability_report p.6
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.
sustainability_report p.2
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.
sustainability_report p.4
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.
sustainability_report p.7
2023· 3 events
With the demolition of Building 13 in 2023, the last building heated with heating oil was removed, significantly reducing oil consumption. RDI retains oil only for emergency generators.
sustainability_report p.17
LightCycler PRO became the first Roche product and first IVD instrument to receive the ACT Environmental Impact Factor Label, with third-party verified environmental footprint disclosure.
sustainability_report p.11
From 2023 onwards, approximately 30% of disposed wood pallets (reusable Euro pallets passed on to disposal company) are deducted from total waste figures, as they are not considered waste.
sustainability_report p.14
2020· 1 event
Roche committed to achieving real zero Scope 1 & 2 GHG emissions by 2050 without reverting to CO2 reduction certificates/offsets. Plus 5-year goals 2020-2025 incl. 100% sustainable electricity by 2025, -15% Scope 3, -10% S1&2 energy, -15% business flights, -40% S1&2 GHG per employee from 2019 baseline.
sustainability_report p.2