Company: VRE
Filing Date: 2025-04-29
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000924901-25-000035
Chunk: 34

Company: Veris Residential, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-29
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 34
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 set a water reduction target of 20% between 2020 and 2030.

• Waste Management and Recycling: We aim to reduce the amount of waste created and sent to landfill, while increasing the proportion being recycled. To this end, the Company requires all hazardous waste, including electronics and mercury-containing products, to be disposed of or recycled in line with the applicable environmental laws. No significant spills of oil, fuel, waste or chemicals were reported in 2024 .

• Furthermore, in 2024, the Company successfully met Sustainable KPI that resulted in a 5-basis-point spread reduction for all borrowings on the Term Loan and Revolver.

#### SOCIAL
The Company strives to cultivate a dynamic workplace that actively draws in, motivates, and fully engages a talented and diverse workforce, enabling them to thrive and feel welcomed. We nurture an inclusive environment grounded in respect, empowerment, and collaboration, aiming to reflect the rich backgrounds of the residents and communities we serve.

Through various initiatives, including workforce training that supports long-term professional growth, prioritizing work-life balance, and promoting diversity and inclusion across our teams and hiring practices, we are able to attract and retain a diverse, healthy, and motivated workforce. To that end, the Company was certified as a “Great Place to Work” for three consecutive years following solicitation of feedback from Company employees through an independent survey.

We have meticulously fostered a workplace where diversity flourishes, spanning race, gender, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, physical abilities, and breadth of experience. As a diverse equal opportunity employer and a signatory to the UN Women's Empowerment Principles, our company champions diversity at all levels, including senior management and the Board of Directors. Our robust diversity, equity, and inclusion initiative is driven by the overarching goal of creating opportunities for all people in the commercial real estate industry within the local communities we operate, as well as within our own workforce. In 2023, the Company became the first company globally to receive WELL-Equity rating across its whole portfolio which we renewed in 2024. The Company was recognized as a member of Bloomberg’s 2023 Gender Equality Index.

WORKFORCE AND BOARD DIVERSITY

• As of December 31, 2024 , 58% of the Company's employees identified as male and 41% as female and below one-percent as non-binary. Also, 52% of the Company's employees were persons of color or other minority groups, consistent with 52% a year earlier (based on employees