www.se.com Schneider Electric Universal Registration Document 2021 10 Integrated report SUSTAINABILITY The Zero Carbon Project Key Achievements of 2021 January Schneider Electric announced as the world’s most sustainable corporation, achieving the number one position on Corporate Knights’ 2021 Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations in the World ranking, out of more than 8,000 companies assessed. The jump from 29 th place in the 2020 ranking reflects Schneider’s consistent progress towards and commitment to sustainability excellence. March Schneider Electric’s majority owned subsidiary AVEVA successfully completed the acquisition of OSIsoft, a global leader in real-time industrial data software and services. OSIsoft’s PI System is a leading platform for data acquisition and data structuring for its customers, specialized on the mission-critical applications on which AVEVA and Schneider are focused. April Schneider Electric launches the Zero Carbon Project. Under the new initiative, the Company will partner with its top 1,000 suppliers – which represent 70% of Schneider’s suppliers emissions – to halve their operations’ CO 2 emissions by 2025. The initiative is part of Schneider’s 2021-2025 sustainability goals and is a concrete step towards limiting the rise in average global temperatures to 1.5°C or less by 2100, as targeted by the Paris Agreement. June Schneider Electric successfully completed the acquisition of Operation Technology, Inc. (ETAP), the leading software provider in electrical network design and simulation. The closing of this transaction will further enhance the Group’s software capabilities in the “Design” phase of lifecycle digitization. May Schneider Electric ranked 4 th in Gartner’s Top 25 Supply Chain Award, for the second consecutive year, and 1 st in Europe. The inclusion is the 6 th time that Schneider has featured on the Top 25 list, and it underlines the Company’s consistent efforts to strengthen and digitize its supply chain operations. February Schneider Electric introduced its vision for “Industries of the Future” at the ARC Industry Forum. Renewing its commitment to transforming the industrial sector through open, sustainable technology, its next- generation framework and winning formula for industrial settings is founded around three core pillars: universal automation, sustainable efficiency, and software- centric automation. EcoStruxure ™ Automation Expert is Schneider Electric’s first offer based on the universal automation vision, capable of unlocking step-change improvements in efficiency and sustainability impossible a decade ago.
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