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2SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC’S COMMITMENT TO ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE
Accomplishments
of the legal context, presentation of legal cases related to
corruption, exchange of best practices;
In full coordination with the Responsibility&Ethics Dynamics training materials and specific awareness-raising materials have
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program, the awareness-raising actions linking the Sustainable been developed for a number of functions, such as the
Development, Legal, Security and Internal Audit functions were led Purchasing function;
by the entity line managers and with employees of certain communications in the form of Lessons Learned were
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vulnerable functions in2014. conducted with the Chairmen of subsidiaries in cases of alert
Various other anti-corruption initiatives have been implemented, at detected that were the subject of investigation in order to
the national or regional level: explain and give instructions on how to prevent unethical acts;
57% of Schneider Electric African subsidiaries received
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Schneider Electric became a member of Transparency
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anti-corruption compliance certificates issued by Ethic International in September2014 to promote and enhance
Intelligence, for their activities on the continent: Schneider integrity in its business; Transparency International is a leading
Electric Egypt & North East Africa, Morocco, South Africa, and NGO whose mission is to stop corruption and promote
Conlog; this is a major work of Schneider Electric’s fight against transparency, accountability and integrity at all levels and across
corruption on the African continent and distinctive by the depth all sectors; the Group participates in cross-company exchanges
of its action; the objective is to have 100% of African promoted by the NGO;
subsidiaries certified; this initiative will be expanded to include Schneider Electric actively participates in the Global Compact
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other subsidiaries on other continents; working group which brings together companies ranked at the
since 2013, many training courses have been rolled out on
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Advanced level and which addresses many issues, including
understanding and preventing risks of corruption in Egypt, anti-corruption; it contributes to the exchange of best practices
Nigeria, South Africa, Algeria, Morocco and France: an overview organized by Ethic Intelligence and the Business Ethics Club
(Cercle Éthique des Affaires).
Schneider Electric’s commitment 3.
toenvironmental performance
This chapter deals with the environmental impact of the Group’s global supply chain and logistics activities (its «Global Supply Chain»).
The products, services and solutions offered by Schneider Electric which help reduce the environmental impacts of its customers’ activities
are described in part2 (page58).
Overview 3.1
Context and aims
Schneider Electric commits to protecting the environment and
health through the following objectives contained in the Connect
Schneider Electric does not produce nor distribute energy. It (2012-2014) Company program:
conceives and builds electrical products and proposes integral to roll out the ISO14001 certification and the Group’s
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solutions for a number of market segments. The vast majority of its environmental reporting to 100% of the industrial sites and
products are installation components for energy management. logistics centers (more than 50people) within two years after
They consume little energy compared with the devices they their creation or acquisition, and to the large tertiary sites (more
control, and the losses through dissipation are negligible compared than 500people);
with the energy in transit. Production activities, for their part, mainly
to roll out energy efficiency monitoring solutions to sites larger
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call on assembly and control techniques and only minimally
than 5,000m2 and to several strategic sites (i.e. a total of
integrate procedures with a significant environmental impact, such
280sites) representing 89% of the Group’s total consumption,
as the transformation and treatment of metals.
and reduce the energy consumption at these sites by 10% in
With a company presence in more than 100countries and with a three years (Energy Action program);
continual rhythm of internal development and acquisitions, limit leaks of SF6 to 0.65% of the consumption of this gas at
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Schneider Electric applies a common environmental policy to all its those sites;
entities and rolls out the same programs for certification, reporting
and performance objective throughout all its geographical reduce CO2 emissions associated with transportation paid by
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locations. the Group by 10%;
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