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The key to being an Eco-Leader? Help customers

become as environmentally smart as you.

“As consumers equip their

homes with more

connected devices, the
15% ability to control and

manage home energy
less per month consumption will be

Possible cut in an electric bill via the non-negotiable.”
Square D Energy Center

to ensuring consumers live sustainably even at home, by strategies for emissions reduction. Suppliers will also work
keeping energy cost and CO2 emissions to a minimum.” toward their goals through decarbonization initiatives such
On the commercial front, Schneider Electric has unveiled as energy efficiency or renewables.
the Zero Carbon Project, in which the company is partnering The program is supported by Schneider’s Energy &
with its top 1,000 suppliers—responsible for 70 percent Sustainability Services division, which has partnered
of Schneider’s carbon emissions (CO2e)—to halve their on similar supply chain decarbonization initiatives with
operations’ CO2 output by 2025. The initiative is part of corporate clients such as Walmart, GSK, and the global
Schneider’s 2021-2025 sustainability goals, and is a concrete Sustainable Apparel Coalition.
step towards limiting the rise in average global temperatures “The challenges posed by climate change are something
to 1.5 degrees Celsius or less by 2100, as targeted by the Paris we urgently need to tackle together,” says Olivier Blum,
Agreement, the company notes. Schneider Electric’s chief strategy and sustainability officer.
Under the program, Schneider will provide tools and “Schneider aims to reduce scope 3 emissions—ones result-
resources to program participants to help them set and ing from activities from assets not owned or controlled by
achieve their own carbon reduction targets. Suppliers will ourselves—by 35 percent by 2030, but we can’t make this
be encouraged to acheive their CO2e reduction goals by using journey alone. We encourage suppliers to join us, as they are
digital tools. They will then use that data to set goals and an integral part of our ecosystem.” 2021 ECO-LEADERS

Trend setter. Schneider Electric has a history of leadership when it comes to managing a business or working with customers in sustainable
fashion. This year, the company has two more decarbonization efforts on its to-do list. COURTESY OF SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC

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