Meaningful impact takes an ecosystem of people, communities, suppliers, customers, and partners — and it needs to happen at every stage of the lifecycle.
Engaging our supply chain on The Zero Carbon Project
Learn how we help top 1,000 suppliers deliver on their sustainable goal to reduce CO2 emissions by half by 2025. Through our dedicated decarbonisation programme that offers training, expert support, tools, and solutions, our partners get everything they need to accelerate their business.
Our partners and customers inspire us every day to find new ways to empower all to do more with less. We are honoured to be recognised and awarded globally and locally in areas of sustainability, trustworthiness, reliability, and safety.
2030 United Nations Agenda for Sustainable Development
The 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals are focused on protecting the planet, alleviating poverty, and achieving worldwide peace and justice. The Schneider Sustainability Impact and Essentials are transformation tools, aligned to all SDGs. They promote rapid, disruptive changes to heighten our sustainability performance, and uphold industry leadership in corporate social responsibility.
No poverty
As a responsible employer, manufacturer, and buyer, Schneider Electric is committed to ensuring the well-being of employees throughout its value chain. Through sustainable procurement, fair compensation, and development opportunities, the Group ensures all its stakeholders can live fulfilling and thriving lives.
Food is a basic need and a necessity for livelihood. Schneider contributes to strengthening food security by improving access to energy in rural areas, through better irrigation, food storage, and processing.
Our commitment to prioritising people everywhere orients us to view well-being holistically – as physical, mental, social, and emotional — and to develop programmes that support all our stakeholders to manage their unique life and work.
100%
of our strategic suppliers provide decent work to their employees by 2025
Sustainability goals go beyond creating a greener world. Learning never stops, and we actively promote a learning and teaching culture by connecting tomorrow’s energy leaders with the education, support, and opportunities they deserve.
Schneider Electric believes in equality between all genders. As such, the long-lasting difference in society’s treatment of men and women is a challenge we face and rise to as we believe that diversity, equity, and inclusion benefit all.
Schneider takes great care in ensuring its operations have no impact on biodiversity and water quality. The Group protects water on its sites, with a specific conservation strategy and solutions in water-stressed areas to limit the impact on local communities.
Schneider provides solutions for clean, reliable, and efficient energy consumption to our customers, and is committed to help people in underserved areas gain access to green and reliable electricity.
Schneider Electric is certain that sustainability requires decent work and opportunities to allow a prosperous development for all its stakeholders. It is our commitment to trust, equality, and opportunities for all generations, that drives us.
100%
of our strategic suppliers provide decent work to their employees by 2025
Schneider Electric’s identity and legacy drive the company towards perpetual innovation and mobilisation to make its infrastructures and products modern and up to date with its commitment to sustainability.
Schneider is devoted to empowering and positively impacting all employees, customers, and communities. The group hopes to bring everyone together on the same level of equality, thus allowing all to strive individually and collectively.
Schneider offers a solution to ensure sustainability in urban areas with smarter homes and buildings. The Schneider Electric Foundation acts to provide access to sustainable energy to all, turning our global commitments into local realities.
Schneider Electric considers that circularity is key for sustainability. Using fewer resources and producing higher-quality products is the ideal combination to ensure safety for employees, consumers, and the environment.
As we strive to be an impactful company, our climate strategy addresses all our stakeholders, from employees to supply chain partners, customers, as well as local communities, and shows there are ways for companies to “do good while doing well”.
800M tonnes
of saved and avoided CO2 emissions delivered to our customers by 2025
Resources are essential to our business; preserving them does not only make good business sense but is also the right thing to do. Our “one planet compatibility” mindset, drives our actions to protect marine life.
100%
of our packaging free from single-use plastic, using recycled cardboard by 2025
Schneider Electric is committed to using fewer natural resources, living within our planet's means, and advancing our biodiversity strategy. We align with like-minded partners to prioritise conservation and help create a more sustainable world.
50%
green material content in our products by 2025
100%
of our packaging free from single-use plastic, using recycled cardboard by 2025
Sustainability is a job for all. The urgency of the situation is impossible to ignore. All hands must be on deck and it is crucial to establish frameworks, programmes, and infrastructure to allow a just and peaceful development.
Schneider Electric is a global company that aims to foster cooperation amongst all its stakeholders to create an environment of trust and prosperity to support better lives for everyone.
4,000
suppliers assessed under our "Vigilance Programme" by 2025
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How can we create a sustainable and inclusive world through a comprehensive corporate sustainability strategy?
Schneider Electric leads the way as a sustainable company through digital transformation and next-generation automation by following a corporate sustainability strategy with decarbonization goals at its core. As an Impact company, Schneider Electric is committed to engaging with sustainability on all fronts, including climate, resources, gender diversity, and inclusion. Schneider Electric is leading the net-zero transition and is ready to bridge business resilience and sustainability for its partners by helping them set up innovative corporate sustainability strategies that make the most of available energy, resources, and people. Our Schneider Electric Sustainability Impact Program (SSI) focuses on achieving Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) targets as well as reduced carbon emissions in our operations by 2025. We partner with our customers and suppliers to deploy services and solutions that deliver energy efficiency and sustainability and drive them towards reduced carbon emissions. Our innovation portfolio helps us move toward a better world through continuous investments and developments in reliable and green energy for immediate and lasting "Net-Zero ready" operations in line with our carbon pledge.
We are committed to preserving natural ecosystems and resources on our planet by upholding our customers’ trust through high social, governance, and ethical standards to prevent biodiversity loss. We believe in creating equal opportunities by ensuring that uniqueness is valued, and the work environment is inclusive. We believe in fostering learning, upskilling, and development for each generation paving for the next. We have a purpose of empowering local communities by promoting local initiatives and enabling individuals and partners to make sustainability a reality for all. Our experts, well-versed in global, corporate sustainability initiatives, including carbon reduction programmes, energy efficiency, renewable energy, and supply chain initiatives, enable our clients to a pathway to net-zero and climate leadership.
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