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SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
2SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC’S COMMITMENT TOENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE
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4. Schneider Electric’s Commitment
toEnvironmental Performance
This chapter deals with the environmental impact of the Group’s
industrial activities. The products and solutions offered by Schneider
Electric which help reduce the environmental impacts of our
customers’ activities are described in chapter 3, p. 53.
1 Overview
Schneider Electric Challenges
andCommitments
Schneider Electric does not produce or distribute energy. It conceives
and builds electrical products and proposes integral solutions for a
number of market segments. The great majority of these products
are installation components for energy management. They consume
little energy compared with the devices they control, and the losses
through dissipation are negligible compared with the energy in
transit. Production activities, for their part, mainly call on assembly
and control techniques and only minimally integrate procedures with
a signifi cant environmental impact, such as the transformation and
treatment of metals.
Schneider Electric is committed to protecting the environment and
human health:
•by limiting its impact on climate through the reduction of its
greenhouse gas emissions, generated in particular from its own
energy consumption and the use of the SF6 gas;
•by deploying the ISO140001 certifi cation and the environmental
reporting of its One corporate program;
•by respecting the directives and rules that seek to control the
chemical substances used in factories and those contained in
products;
•fi nally, by minimising the consumption of natural resources and
increasing the rate of waste recycling at its industrial sites.
This chapter presents four key Group approaches to reduce the
environmental impact of its industrial activities:
•reduction of CO2 emissions;
•energy effi ciency;
•eco-design;
•eco-production.
Objectives and Results 2010
Three indicators in Schneider Electric’s Planet & Society Barometer
measure the success of the One program (2009-2011):
1. 30,000T annual reduction of CO2 emissions;
2. 2/3 of products revenues gained with Green Premium products;
3. 2/3 of employees working in ISO14001 certifi ed sites.
Objectives for Year-End-2011 2010 2009 2008
1. 30,000 tons annual reduction of our CO2 equivalent emissions -110,156 -44,089 -
2. 2/3 of our products revenues achieved with Green Premium products 26.1% ▲2.6% NS
3. 2/3 of our workers work on ISO 14001 certifi ed sites 69.0% ▲63.7% NS
NS = Indicator Not Monitored
The 2008 performance serves as a starting value for the Planet & Society Barometer Program One between 2009 and 2011.
▲ 2010 Audited Indicators
Please refer to pages 88 to 90 for the methodological presentation of indicators and the following pages for the analysis of the results
(pages 64-65 for indicator 1, 68-70 for indicator 2 and 70 for indicator 3).
At year-end 2010:
•the Group generated 66,067tons less of CO2 equivalent than
in 2009.
•Green Premium products represent 26.1% of revenue.
•69.0% of Schneider Electric employees work in ISO 14001
certifi ed sites.
An analysis of these results is presented in the sub-chapter
“Reduction of CO2 emissions”, “Eco-design”, and “Eco-
production” below.
Organisation
At the corporate level, the Sustainable Development Department,
part of Strategy and Innovation Management, establishes the
Group’s environmental strategy and leads the Group’s environmental
players. The Director of Sustainable Development is ranked below
the Senior Vice President of Strategy and Innovation Management
(member of the Group’s Executive Committee).
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