Roux’s ESG Annual Report 2023
Roux is pleased to release our second annual ESG report. This report is designed to inform our clients, communities, and the public of Roux’s ongoing commitment to social, environmental, and charitable endeavors.
This report provides an overview of Roux’s growing set of services in the areas of environmental engineering and remediation, as well as an expansion of services in economics, ecological solutions, natural resource damages, and human health risk assessment. Additionally, the report highlights several Roux projects that have successfully created innovative, sustainable solutions for our clients.
Our ESG Report highlights for 2023 include:
- Compared to 2022, electricity use and emissions are lower across 80% of our offices.
- Roux’s Scope 2 emissions in 2023 were 3% lower than in 2022 and 12% lower than 2021.
- Roux’s Scope 3 emissions have decreased by 2% from 2022.
- Continued to be a leader in health and safety with an Experience Modification Rate (EMR) of 0.83 or less for the last five years.
- Reported a total recordable incident rate below our industry average with zero OSHA recordable and lost-time injuries.
- Developed plans to further increase energy efficiency at both owned and leased office spaces and explored ways to work with utilities to purchase more energy from renewable sources and/or purchase renewable energy credits or other methods.
- Roux’s DEI Committee established the company’s firm-wide Allyship Training and identified Allyship Champions in each Roux office.
- Supported the City College of New York (CCNY) Charles B. Rangel Infrastructure Workforce Initiative for environmental job training programs.
- Engaged in fundraising activities and other charitable endeavors, including financial scholarship programs with select universities.
As a privately held environmental consulting firm, Roux has no formal or mandatory ESG reporting requirements. However, in the interest of transparency to the public and our clients, we feel it is paramount to review our social and environmental performance each year and pave a path toward greater corporate sustainability.
We invite you to read the report below and learn about some of the challenges and successes the firm has encountered within the past year. We look forward to updating this report on an annual basis and sharing our progress with you.
