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2 SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC’S COMMITMENT TO ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE
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> 3. 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 part 2, (page 52 ).
3.1 Overview
Context and aims
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.
With a company presence in more than 100 countries resulting
from a continual rhythm of acquisitions, Schneider Electric applies
a common environmental policy to all its entities and rolls out
the same programs for certifi cation, reporting and performance
objective throughout all its geographical locations.
Schneider Electric commits to protecting the environment and health
through the following objectives contained in the One company
program:
• to roll out ISO 14001 certifi cation and the Group’s environmental
reporting to 100% of the industrial sites and logistics centres
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(more than 50 people ) within two years after their creation or
acquisition, and to the large tertiary sites (more than 300 people );
• to roll out energy effi ciency monitoring solutions to 100 sites
covering 75% of the Group’s total consumption (Energy Effi ciency
Monitoring program);
• to reduce energy consumption of sites by 4% per year, to limit
SF 6 emissions to 1% of consumption (1.2% target revised to
1%) and to reduce the air freight portion to 20% of long distance
freight;
• to monitor water consumption for all ISO 14001 sites and control
deviations (+/- 10%);
• to monitor VOC emissions (Volatile Organic Compounds) for all
ISO 14001 sites holding emissions permits or emitting more than
one tonne per year;
• to achieve 2/3 of product revenue with products that have a life
cycle analysis and chemical substance usage that is controlled
and limited (Green Premium).
Three performance indicators were set in the Planet and Society Barometer for the duration of the One program (2009-2011):
Objectives for Year-End-2011 2011 2010 2009 2008
1. 30,000 tonnes annual reduction of CO emissions 2
2. 2/3 of products revenues gained with Green
- 161,933 - 110,156 - 44,089 -
Premium products 63.7% ▲ 26.1% 2.6% 0
3. 2/3 of employees work in ISO 14001 certifi ed sites
NM = indicator not monitored.
70.4% ▲ 69.0% 63.7% 58.8%
The 2008 performance serves as a starting value for the Planet & Society Barometer of the One program between 2009 and 2011.
▲ 2011 Audited Indicators
Please refer to pages 90 to 92 for the methodological presentation of indicators and the following pages for the analysis of the results
(pages 61-64 for indicator 1, 64-67 for indicator 2 and 67 for indicator 3).