Recently, in the 2021 “golden key – China action for SDG” sponsored by the economic guide for sustainable development, Schneider Electric stood out from 112 participating enterprises and won the “golden key · Champion Award” in the category of “low carbon development”, becoming the only enterprise that has won the championship in two golden key action evaluations.

On December 29, the 2021 “golden key · Champion Award” award ceremony was held in Schneider (Beijing) medium and low voltage electrical appliance Co., Ltd. in Yizhuang, Beijing, to commend Schneider Electric’s outstanding achievements in actively advocating, practicing and enabling sustainable development over the years.

At the award ceremony on the same day, Yu Zhihong, founder of golden key and President and editor in chief of sustainable development economic guide, said that Schneider Electric is the first enterprise to win the “golden key · Champion Award” for two consecutive times since the launch of golden key action, Last year, Schneider Electric stood out from the golden key quality education category and won the championship with the action of “integrating industry and education, deeply Cultivating Vocational Education and achieving skilled talent development”. This year, Schneider Electric won the championship in the low-carbon development category with the action of “building a zero carbon factory and enabling a net zero supply chain”, It shows that Schneider Electric has made widely recognized achievements in promoting sustainable development in many fields.

Schneider Electric is expected to continue to spread its sustainable development action experience, drive more enterprises to act together, carry out exchanges with more cross industry and cross field enterprises with an open attitude, continuously optimize and improve the champion action, participate in the competition of golden key awards with more sustainable development benchmark actions, and win more Championship trophies.

Driven by the “double carbon” goal, all walks of life are accelerating the transformation to green and low-carbon. As a digital transformation expert in the field of global energy management and automation, Schneider Electric has always regarded sustainable development as the core of its strategy and made a series of carbon reduction commitments:

By 2025

Achieve carbon neutrality at the company’s operational level

By 2030

Achieve net zero carbon emission at the company’s operation level

By 2040

Achieve carbon neutrality end-to-end in the supply chain

By 2050

Achieve net zero carbon emission at the supply chain operation level

At present, Schneider Electric has realized 14 “zero carbon plants” and 3 “carbon neutralization plants” in China, and will further accelerate the process of carbon reduction in the future. At the same time, Schneider Electric actively enables the industry to reduce carbon, integrates the concept of sustainability into all aspects of supply chain operation, and comprehensively covers upstream and downstream partners by building a complete set of end-to-end green supply chain management system.

In 2021, Schneider Electric officially launched the supplier “zero carbon plan” to help the world’s top 1000 major suppliers reduce their carbon emissions by 50% by 2025 through technical guidance and consultation. Nearly 200 core suppliers in China have participated in the plan and completed the carbon emission survey to accelerate the progress towards the carbon reduction goal.

Wang Jie, vice president of Schneider Electric and head of corporate affairs and sustainable development in China, said: we are honored to be awarded the “golden key · Champion Award” again. Sustainable development is not only the gene and strategic core of Schneider Electric, but also the “golden key” for us to work together with partners to meet challenges. Schneider Electric will always be committed to advocating and practicing sustainable development and widely empowering the society. We look forward to working with more users and partners to build a green future.