Lessons from a Practitioner: How Schneider Electric Uses Targets to Decarbonize Its Value Chain

March 27, 2023 EcoVadis EN


Speaker:  Vanessa Miler-Fels, VP of Climate and Environment at Schneider Electric, hosted by Fergal Byrne, Executive Producer, The Sustainability Agenda


For most companies, Scope 3 is almost everything. For us, for Schneider Electric, Scope 3, which are the indirect emissions from our value chain, both upstream and downstream, represent about 99.5% of our carbon footprint. The direct emissions from our operations and the emissions from the electricity operations consume are less than 0.5%.

It's really the most important impact we have on the environment and particularly on climate change. It was obvious that we needed to set ambitious goals that would not just look at our operations, but also look at our value chain, and not just at our upstream value chain, but also look at our downstream value chain.



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