Schneider Electric closes 2025 plan with 8.86 score

Schneider Electric has published its 2025 extra-financial results and closed its 2021-2025 Sustainability Impact programme, reporting an overall score of 8.86 out of 10 under its internal framework.

The programme tracked progress across climate, social and governance measures, including customer emissions, supplier decarbonisation, supply-chain labour standards, and energy-access initiatives.

"Schneider Sustainability Impact 2021-2025 has been a transformative journey," said Olivier Blum, CEO of Schneider Electric. "For more than 20 years, sustainability has been rooted in our identity and driven our journey forward. By combining innovation, partnerships, and accountability, we have delivered progress against key sustainability metrics across our operations and our ecosystem. These results reinforce our belief that sustainability is a powerful driver of both performance and positive impact."

Customer emissions

Schneider Electric said its products and services helped customers save energy and reduce emissions. By the end of 2025, it reported customers had saved and avoided 862 million tonnes of CO2 emissions, exceeding its earlier target of 800 million tonnes.

The company did not provide a breakdown by sector or geography. It sells electrical equipment, industrial automation and software across buildings, data centres, factories, infrastructure and grids.

Supply chain

Schneider Electric highlighted work with suppliers through its Zero Carbon Project. It said it engaged its top 1,000 suppliers during the programme period and recorded a 56% reduction in their operational CO2 emissions.

The project reflects a wider push by manufacturers to quantify and cut emissions beyond their own operations. For multinationals-particularly those with large hardware portfolios and complex sourcing-supply-chain emissions often make up a significant share of the overall footprint.

Alongside carbon measures, Schneider Electric reported progress on working conditions. It said 98% of strategic suppliers met its Decent Work requirements by 2025, covering human rights, ethical labour practices and employee wellbeing.

Energy access

On social measures, Schneider Electric pointed to its Access to Energy initiative, launched in 2009. It said the programme expanded access to clean, reliable and affordable energy for underserved communities, reaching more than 61 million people worldwide by the end of 2025-above its earlier goal of 50 million beneficiaries.

It also reported ongoing investment in energy-management training, saying it has trained more than one million people since 2009.

Schneider Electric positioned these efforts as part of a broader push for a more inclusive energy transition. It also said more than 500 local sustainability initiatives have been launched since 2021 in the countries where it operates.

External ratings

Schneider Electric said its sustainability approach has been recognised by several ESG ratings and assessments, including an EcoVadis Platinum medal and inclusion on CDP's Climate Change A list.

It also cited rankings from the World Benchmarking Alliance, including first place in the Social Benchmark and third place in the Gender Benchmark. Such ratings are among the inputs investors and customers use to compare suppliers and partners, although methodologies vary by provider.

Next phase

With the 2021-2025 programme complete, Schneider Electric signalled a shift toward its 2030 direction, without setting out new targets in the announcement.

"Closing SSI 2021-2025 is a milestone, not a finish line. What remains is the collective capability we've built with our people, customers and suppliers, and the discipline to deliver concrete results and meaningful impact," said Esther Finidori, Chief Sustainability Officer of Schneider Electric. "As we move toward 2030, our compass is clear: we'll leverage technology and innovation for progress, bring others along, learn and share what works to scale impact while continuously striving to do the right thing. At Schneider Electric, we're convinced that advancing energy technology can help power progress for all."