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SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
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SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT ATTHEHEART OFOURSTRATEGY
Diversity International: signatory of the Women’s Empowerment Principles (WEP) of the United Nations.
France: Diversity Charter, Agreement for professional gender equality, Professional gender equality Label,
P arenthood charter, Disability Agreement, Agreement on inter-generational mechanism, Apprenticeship
Agreement, Framework Convention on Jobs for the Future (Emplois d’Avenir), Businesses and
Neighborhoods (Entreprises et Quartiers) Convention.
Social policy Observatoire Social International.
Education International: training program in energy management for underprivileged people, in partnership with local
vocational training centres and/or national or international NGOs .
France: School Paul-Louis Merlin, framework agreements with the Ministry of National Education, Higher
Education and Research, partnerships with the continuing education network of UIMM, Ingénieurs Pour
l’École network (IPE), selected by the Ministry of Education for the Digital School project.
Ethics International: Transparency International, Cercle éthique des affaires (Business ethics club).
Biodiversity Livelihoods: Carbon offset fund for biodiversity and rural communities.
Philanthropy International: member of the IAVE (International Association for Volunteer Effort), more than 70 NGOs
supported each year in over 35 countries, partner of Ashoka for the development of social entrepreneurship
primarily in Europe.
France: active support of Admical (Association pour le développement du mécénat industriel et commercial,
member of the European network CERES) and IMS-Entreprendre pour la cité.
Standardization With more than 100 experts actively participating in international standardization bodies, Schneider Electric
is making, in particular, a decisive contribution to the elaboration of standards that ensure the reliability of
electric installations and equipment and transparency of the work on environmental issues. In particular,
it ensures the presidencies of the French Electrotechnical Committee; it is member of IEC (International
Electrotechnical Commission), participates actively including in the roadmap for smart grids standards
especially in the domain of Power Utility Automation; it is a member of Cenelec (European Committee for
Electrotechnical Standardization), where it has the convener’s role for standardizing the interface between
smart buildings and smart grid s, and where it leads a group in charge of defi ning the set of smart grid
standards and the standardization roadmap ; it is also a member of the French Committee for environmental
standardization. It is member of the Council Board, the Conformity Assessment Board and the IECEE
system of IEC . It chairs several Technical Committees in ISO (International Standardization Organization).
Schneider Electric chairs many French standardization committees hosted by AFNOR (French Standards
Organization). It is particularly heavily involved in the working group on sustainable development and in the
work on the rational use of energy.
Since February2007, Schneider Electric has represented France on the IEC’s Advisory Committee for
Environmental Aspects (ACEA). The ACEA works to advise and coordinate the EIC ’s efforts to tackle
environmental issues. The Group also participates in the Advisory Committee for Energy Effi ciency (ACEE)
created in 2013.