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SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT<br />
DEVELOPMENT AT THE HEART OF OUR STRATEGY<br />
> 1. Sustainable development at the<br />
heart of our strategy<br />
Social and environmental commitments, governance, reducing<br />
CO 2 emissions, launching serious solutions that respect the planet,<br />
social changes, local and regional footing, civic attitude, ethics,<br />
business and poverty – the challenges of sustainable development<br />
have never been as signifi cant to <strong>Schneider</strong> <strong>Electric</strong>’s customers<br />
and stakeholders as they are today.<br />
REGISTRATION DOCUMENT 2011 SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC<br />
The Group is committed to meeting energy challenges while<br />
acting civically and responsibly in all its locations, with measured<br />
improvement plans, based on international corporate social<br />
responsibility, whose results are audited and shared openly internally<br />
and externally.<br />
1.1 <strong>Schneider</strong> <strong>Electric</strong>’s approach to sustainable development<br />
A concrete, innovative, human commitment<br />
Responsibility has always been a part of <strong>Schneider</strong> <strong>Electric</strong>’s culture.<br />
Since the Sustainable Development Department was founded<br />
10 years ago, this commitment has evolved in line with the Group’s<br />
continuing innovation. The Group’s sustainable development policy<br />
initially focused on internal issues, plus initiatives for the professional<br />
integration of French youth; today, it also accounts for solutions<br />
that help meet the energy challenges of our time (energy effi ciency<br />
and access to energy) as well as worldwide environmental and<br />
societal responsibility.<br />
<strong>Schneider</strong> <strong>Electric</strong>’s commitment to offering sustainable and<br />
responsible solutions for its customers aims to:<br />
• bring products and solutions to the market that waste less<br />
energy and promote environmentally sound production<br />
and consumption;<br />
• bring energy to the 1.3 billion (1) people who have no access to<br />
electricity and provide sustainable economic development.<br />
Besides, <strong>Schneider</strong> <strong>Electric</strong>’s corporate commitment means<br />
dynamic societal and environmental responsibility, based on the<br />
Group’s employees:<br />
• responsible, ethical governance;<br />
• sites and products which respect the environment;<br />
• fostering employee well-being;<br />
• a policy that supports and develops the communities where<br />
<strong>Schneider</strong> <strong>Electric</strong> operates.<br />
(1) Source: International Energy Agency – World energy poverty 2010.<br />
A commitment to action<br />
<strong>Schneider</strong> <strong>Electric</strong> has set out four principles to put its commitment<br />
into actions (details on following pages):<br />
• a continuous improvement process driven by the dynamic Planet<br />
& Society Barometer;<br />
• regular and transparent communication (quarterly<br />
Planet & Society Barometer newsletter);<br />
• open dialogue with stakeholders;<br />
• an approach based on international standards, codes and<br />
global policies.<br />
<strong>Schneider</strong> <strong>Electric</strong> uses its global human resources policies (see<br />
pages 70-80 ), external commitments (see pages 47-48 ), ethical<br />
code of conduct and the associated professional alert program<br />
(see pages 57-58 ) to especially strive for respect of human rights<br />
in all its aspects: non-discrimination, abolition of forced labour,<br />
prohibition of child labour, freedom of association and the right<br />
to collective bargaining, health and safety, training, remuneration,<br />
social coverage, etc.<br />
The Company extends this commitment to civil society through its<br />
community support and development program (see pages 81-89 ):<br />
the right to decent living standards (access to energy program,<br />
Foundation emergency relief programs), the right to education and<br />
training (training program for the poorest populations, integration<br />
program in France), local economic development (social investment<br />
funds, entrepreneurship support).<br />
<strong>Schneider</strong> <strong>Electric</strong> works to share this vision with its partners<br />
(see pages 56-57 ), starting with its suppliers by encouraging<br />
as many of them as possible to sign the United Nations Global<br />
Compact.