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SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
SUSTAINABLE GOVERNANCE
Significant events 2010
Membership in the WBCSD – World Business Council
for Sustainable Development
In March2010, Schneider Electric joined the WBCSD, the world’s
leading professional sustainable development organisation, which
includes more than 200 corporations. This happened after the
WBCSD published its Energy Effi ciency in Buildings document in late
2009 (published in French in February2010), which calls for major
global corporations to reduce their buildings’ energy consumption.
Participation in the G20 Seoul summit
In November2010, Jean-Pascal Tricoire, President and CEO,
and Philippe Delorme, Executive VP for Strategy and Innovation,
participated in the G20 economic summit in Seoul, South Korea,
where 120corporate executives came together to represent
emerging and developed economies.
The objective of the Summit was to bring corporate directors and
G20 Heads of State together to think about the best ways to foster
strong, sustainable and balanced growth in the global economy.
The Summit focused on three main themes: fi nance, international
commerce, social and societal responsibility and green growth. On
the topic of green growth, Jean-Pascal Tricoire was the working
group’s reporter on energy effi ciency.
The working group members’ contributions were compiled and
summarised in a set of recommendations sent from economic
players to political players, with the fi nal report of the G20 Heads of
State specifying that energy effi ciency is the best means of securing
energy supply, limiting greenhouse gas emissions and protecting
economies against volatile energy prices.
Schneider Electric’s strategic commitment to energy effi ciency is now
widely recognised as essential to overcoming the challenges facing
the global economy.
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