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Sustainable development Sustainable development at the heart of our strategy

Theme

Commitment

Education

International: training program in energy management for underprivileged people, in partnership with local vocational training centers 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. International: Transparency International. France: Cercle éthique des affaires (Business ethics club, board of directors), Club Droits Humains (Human rights club) of Global Compact France, Entreprises pour les droits de l’homme (Companies for human rights). International: IAVE (International Association for Volunteer Effort), more than 70 NGOs supported each year in over 35 countries. France: Admical (Association pour le développement du mécénat industriel et commercial, member of the European network CERES), IMS-Entreprendre pour la cité, French Foundation Center. With around 700 experts actively participating in international and national standardization bodies, Schneider Electric is making, in particular, a decisive contribution to the elaboration and dissemination of standards that ensure the safety and reliability of electric installations and equipment, and address their environmental impacts all along their lifecycle and prepare for a better circular economy. In particular, it holds the presidency of the French Electrotechnical Committee which is a founding member of international (IEC – International Electrotechnical Commission) and European organizations (Cenelec – European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization); committed to these 2 organizations, at governance and technical levels, it participates actively in the roadmap for smart grid standards especially in the domain of Power Utility Automation, for which it leads a group in charge of defining the set of European smart grid standards and the standardization roadmap, and where it has the convener’s role for standardizing the interface between smart buildings and smart grids; it is also a member of the French Committee for environmental standardization and has been a major contributor to the smart manufacturing initiatives such as the AIF in France. It is especially member of the Council board and the Conformity Assessment board of IEC. It chairs the Smart Energy Grid coordination group of the CEN-CENELEC-ETSI (European Standardization Committee – European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization – European Telecommunications Standards Institute), responsible for ensuring availability of an appropriate set of standards for the rollout of smart grids in Europe. CEN-CENELEC- ETSI are the 3 official European standardization bodies. As part of the European Commission’s Circular Economy package, CEN-CENELEC-ETSI will develop by 2019 a set of standards covering reparability, reuse, recycling, refurbishment, etc., of products which fall within the scope of the Eco-design directive. Schneider Electric has appointed experts in each of the working groups. It is leading the UPS manufacturers’ group in the EU Commission’s Product Environmental Footprint (PEF) pilots for defining rules to assess the PEF of products put on the EU market; the pilot phase is ending in 2018 before implementation of policy. It chairs several technical committees in ISO (International Standardization Organization). At the forefront of the digital transformation, it is a member of the board of the AIOTI (Alliance for IoT Innovation) European initiative, leading especially the working group on Buildings, and is leading the working group 17 of IEC on cybersecurity conformity assessment. 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 IEC’s Advisory Committee for Energy Efficiency (ACEE) created in 2013 and chairs the Advisory Committee On Safety (ACOS). It also 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. Livelihoods (carbon offset fund for biodiversity and rural communities).

Ethics

Biodiversity

Philanthropy

Standardization

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