Schneider Electric Partners with Their Top 1,000 suppliers to Help Reduce Their Operations' CO2 Footprint 50% by 2025

April 22, 2021

EIN SE supplier carbon 400 Schneider Electric has launched the Zero Carbon Project. Under the new initiative, the company will partner with its top 1,000 suppliers - which represent 70 per cent of Schneider's carbon emissions - to halve their operations' CO₂ emissions by 2025. The initiative is part of Schneider's 2021-2025 sustainability goals, and is a concrete step towards limiting the rise in average global temperatures to 1.5°C or less by 2100, as targeted by the Paris Agreement.

Under the program, Schneider will provide tools and resources to program participants to help them set and achieve their own carbon reduction targets. Suppliers will be first encouraged to quantify their CO₂ emissions using the company's digital tools. Suppliers will then use that data to set goals and strategies for emissions reduction. Suppliers will also work towards their goals through decarbonization initiatives such as energy efficiency or renewables. The Zero Carbon Project will enable best practice exchange with peers and partners to access other innovative solutions for decarbonization.

The program will be supported by Schneider's Energy & Sustainability Services division, which has partnered on similar supply chain decarbonization initiatives with its corporate clients, including Walmart, GSK, and the global Sustainable Apparel Coalition.

"The challenges posed by climate change are something we urgently need to tackle together," said Olivier Blum, Chief Strategy and Sustainability Officer. "Schneider aims to reduce scope 3 emissions by 35 per cent by 2030 but we can't make this journey alone and we encourage suppliers to join us as they are an integral part of our ecosystem. We offer to share our expertise and experience with them on how they can decarbonize their operations leveraging our range of Sustainability Consulting Services and digital EcoStruxure^TM or other third-party solutions."

For many organizations, reducing supply chain emissions can be one of the most challenging aspects of decarbonization, but also one of the most important priorities, since a majority of organizational emissions can be found in the Scope 3 category (which includes all other indirect emissions that occur in a company's value chain.

"We've been actively reducing the carbon footprint of our supply chain. Through the use of our EcoStruxure^TMplatform, we managed to reduce energy consumption in our plants and distribution centers by more than 10 per centevery three years for the past 12 years. We currently operate 30 zero emission sites, and more than 120 others will be added to the list in the next five years," said Mourad Tamoud, Schneider Electric's Chief Supply Chain Officer. "Our entire supplier network accounts for emissions of over 7-million CO₂ tons per year, and we need them to take an active role, in partnership with us, if we are to make a meaningful reduction in our carbon footprint."

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