Schneider Electric sustainability: eco score 77 out of 100
Twice ranked the most sustainable company in the world, with one large competition fine.
Reviewed 3 October 2026. How we score
Schneider Electric scores 77 out of 100, which places it in our strong band. It makes the equipment and software that help buildings and factories use less energy. Corporate Knights ranked it first in the world in 2025, for the second time. It ran on 99% renewable electricity in 2025 and helped its main suppliers cut their emissions by more than half. The main mark against it is a 207 million euro fine for price fixing in France, which it disputes.
Schneider Electric at a glance
| Net zero target | 2050 across its whole supply chain. Its own operations aim to be ready by 2030 |
|---|---|
| Targets approved by SBTi | Yes, both near term and net zero |
| Renewable electricity | 99% in 2025 |
| Supplier emissions | Top 1,000 suppliers cut emissions from their operations by 56% |
| Emissions avoided by customers | 862 million tonnes of CO2 since 2018, by its own estimate |
| Corporate Knights Global 100 | 1st in 2021 and 2025, and 40th in 2026 after the scoring changed |
| Regulatory finding | Fined 207 million euros for price fixing in France in October 2024. It disputes the finding |
Sustainability: 19 out of 20
| Test | Points out of 5 | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Net zero target | 4 | Net zero across its whole supply chain by 2050. It aims to cut emissions from its own operations by 76% by 2030. Source. |
| Independent approval | 5 | The Science Based Targets initiative has approved both its near term targets and its net zero target. Source. |
| Progress reports | 5 | It publishes a score against its sustainability targets every quarter, as well as a yearly report. Source. |
| Core business | 5 | Its products manage and save energy. It estimates they have helped customers avoid 862 million tonnes of emissions since 2018. Source. |
Schneider treats its sustainability targets like financial ones. It sets eleven global targets for each five year period and reports on them four times a year. By the end of 2025 it had met or beaten most of them, including those on renewable power and supplier emissions.
What would raise the score: a net zero date earlier than 2050.
Green Credentials: 13 out of 20
| Test | Points out of 5 | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Certification | 1 | We found no outside environmental certification covering the company as a whole. |
| Independent ratings | 2 | We did not find a current published rating from an independent body that we could cite. |
| Rankings | 5 | Corporate Knights ranked it first in the world in 2021 and 2025. It fell to 40th in 2026, after a change in how the list is scored. TIME also ranked it first in 2025. Source and source. |
| Clean record | 5 | We found no upheld greenwashing ruling or environmental penalty against Schneider Electric in the last five years. |
No other company has topped the Corporate Knights list twice. Its environmental record with regulators is clean as far as we could find. The competition fine described below is counted under openness, since it concerns pricing and not the environment.
What would raise the score: a published rating from an independent body that we can cite.
Corporate Social Responsibility: 13 out of 20
| Test | Points out of 5 | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Supply chain | 4 | It asked its top 1,000 suppliers to halve the emissions from their operations by 2025. They cut them by 56%. Source. |
| Pay and conditions | 2 | We did not find a living wage commitment with published figures, or an upheld labour ruling, in our research. |
| Community | 5 | It reports that 61.7 million people have gained access to clean electricity through its programmes, and that it has trained over a million people in energy skills. Source. |
| Openness | 2 | In October 2024 the French competition authority fined it 207 million euros for fixing resale prices with distributors between 2012 and 2018. Source. |
Schneider says it firmly disagrees with the competition finding and has reserved its right to appeal, so the matter is not final. A related criminal investigation in France has not been decided. Against that, its work with suppliers and its energy access programmes are among the best evidenced we have seen.
What would raise the score: the competition case resolved, and published pay data.
Carbon Footprint: 17 out of 20
| Test | Points out of 5 | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | 5 | It publishes its full footprint, including emissions from the use of its products. The total was 56.2 million tonnes in 2024. Source. |
| Direction | 3 | Its total footprint fell by 1.4% in 2024. Most of it comes from the electricity its products use once sold. Source. |
| Clean energy | 5 | It sourced 99% of its electricity from renewables in 2025, and 195 of its sites produce no carbon dioxide from their operations. Source. |
| Scale and investment | 4 | It has no fossil fuel business, and its products help customers cut far more than its own operations emit. Source. |
Schneider's own sites are close to clean. Almost all its footprint comes from the electricity that its products draw during their working lives, which falls as power grids get cleaner. That part is slow to change and largely outside its control.
What would raise the score: a faster fall in its total footprint.
Recycling, Reuse, Reduction: 15 out of 20
| Test | Points out of 5 | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Waste | 4 | By the end of 2025 it had 176 sites that turn their waste into a resource, against a target of 200. Source. |
| Materials and packaging | 4 | In 2025, 85% of its packaging was free of single use plastic and made from recycled cardboard, up from 78% in 2024. Its goal was 100%. Source. |
| Take back and repair | 4 | It has recovered 428,450 tonnes of materials through its take back schemes since 2017, beating its target of 420,000 tonnes. It also sells refurbished products. Source and source. |
| Reduction | 3 | In 2025, 48% of the material in its products came from greener sources, such as recycled steel and plastic. Its goal was 50%. Source. |
Schneider set clear targets for 2025 on waste, packaging, materials and take back, and it has published the final results. It beat the take back target and came close on the other three, without quite reaching them.
What would raise the score: the three missed targets met in full, and a new set of targets beyond 2025.
How Schneider Electric ranks in the Sustainability Index
Schneider Electric is joint 2nd of the 34 companies in the Green Alchemist Sustainability Index, with 77 out of 100. See the full index.
| Rank | Company | Sustainability | Green credentials | CSR | Carbon footprint | Recycling | Score out of 100 | Band |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ERGSustainability 19, Green 13, CSR 17, Carbon 18, Recycling 14 | 19 | 13 | 17 | 18 | 14 | 81 | Leader |
| 2= | PatagoniaSustainability 17, Green 17, CSR 16, Carbon 13, Recycling 14 | 17 | 17 | 16 | 13 | 14 | 77 | Strong |
| 2= | Schneider ElectricSustainability 19, Green 13, CSR 13, Carbon 17, Recycling 15 | 19 | 13 | 13 | 17 | 15 | 77 | Strong |
| 2= | VestasSustainability 18, Green 13, CSR 12, Carbon 18, Recycling 16 | 18 | 13 | 12 | 18 | 16 | 77 | Strong |
| 5 | ØrstedSustainability 20, Green 13, CSR 12, Carbon 18, Recycling 12 | 20 | 13 | 12 | 18 | 12 | 75 | Strong |
| 6 | CascadesSustainability 15, Green 14, CSR 13, Carbon 15, Recycling 17 | 15 | 14 | 13 | 15 | 17 | 74 | Strong |
| 7= | Nudie JeansSustainability 13, Green 14, CSR 15, Carbon 15, Recycling 16 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 15 | 16 | 73 | Strong |
| 7= | RicohSustainability 17, Green 12, CSR 12, Carbon 17, Recycling 15 | 17 | 12 | 12 | 17 | 15 | 73 | Strong |
| 9= | IKEASustainability 16, Green 11, CSR 15, Carbon 16, Recycling 13 | 16 | 11 | 15 | 16 | 13 | 71 | Strong |
| 9= | Sims LimitedSustainability 13, Green 11, CSR 11, Carbon 19, Recycling 17 | 13 | 11 | 11 | 19 | 17 | 71 | Strong |
| 9= | Triodos BankSustainability 16, Green 14, CSR 14, Carbon 19, Recycling 8 | 16 | 14 | 14 | 19 | 8 | 71 | Strong |
| 12 | AppleSustainability 17, Green 7, CSR 13, Carbon 17, Recycling 15 | 17 | 7 | 13 | 17 | 15 | 69 | Strong |
| 13= | Marks & SpencerSustainability 17, Green 10, CSR 14, Carbon 14, Recycling 13 | 17 | 10 | 14 | 14 | 13 | 68 | Strong |
| 13= | ZaraSustainability 16, Green 13, CSR 14, Carbon 13, Recycling 12 | 16 | 13 | 14 | 13 | 12 | 68 | Strong |
| 15 | UniqloSustainability 15, Green 11, CSR 14, Carbon 16, Recycling 11 | 15 | 11 | 14 | 16 | 11 | 67 | Strong |
| 16 | WaitroseSustainability 16, Green 11, CSR 13, Carbon 14, Recycling 12 | 16 | 11 | 13 | 14 | 12 | 66 | Strong |
| 17 | Too Good To GoSustainability 11, Green 13, CSR 12, Carbon 13, Recycling 16 | 11 | 13 | 12 | 13 | 16 | 65 | Strong |
| 18= | GoogleSustainability 16, Green 6, CSR 12, Carbon 10, Recycling 15 | 16 | 6 | 12 | 10 | 15 | 59 | Mixed |
| 18= | NikeSustainability 13, Green 7, CSR 12, Carbon 16, Recycling 11 | 13 | 7 | 12 | 16 | 11 | 59 | Mixed |
| 20 | Jaguar Land RoverSustainability 13, Green 9, CSR 10, Carbon 13, Recycling 13 | 13 | 9 | 10 | 13 | 13 | 58 | Mixed |
| 21 | TeslaSustainability 13, Green 9, CSR 8, Carbon 12, Recycling 12 | 13 | 9 | 8 | 12 | 12 | 54 | Mixed |
| 22 | NestléSustainability 16, Green 4, CSR 9, Carbon 15, Recycling 9 | 16 | 4 | 9 | 15 | 9 | 53 | Mixed |
| 23= | AmazonSustainability 10, Green 4, CSR 10, Carbon 10, Recycling 14 | 10 | 4 | 10 | 10 | 14 | 48 | Mixed |
| 23= | PepsiCoSustainability 11, Green 8, CSR 8, Carbon 13, Recycling 8 | 11 | 8 | 8 | 13 | 8 | 48 | Mixed |
| 25 | Coca-ColaSustainability 10, Green 5, CSR 9, Carbon 12, Recycling 9 | 10 | 5 | 9 | 12 | 9 | 45 | Mixed |
| 26 | Thames WaterSustainability 9, Green 2, CSR 8, Carbon 12, Recycling 10 | 9 | 2 | 8 | 12 | 10 | 41 | Mixed |
| 27= | Halo CoffeeSustainability 4, Green 9, CSR 6, Carbon 4, Recycling 13 | 4 | 9 | 6 | 4 | 13 | 36 | Weak |
| 27= | SheinSustainability 13, Green 1, CSR 8, Carbon 9, Recycling 5 | 13 | 1 | 8 | 9 | 5 | 36 | Weak |
| 29 | HovisSustainability 4, Green 8, CSR 4, Carbon 7, Recycling 11 | 4 | 8 | 4 | 7 | 11 | 34 | Weak |
| 30 | ShellSustainability 7, Green 4, CSR 9, Carbon 8, Recycling 3 | 7 | 4 | 9 | 8 | 3 | 31 | Weak |
| 31 | Coal IndiaSustainability 4, Green 4, CSR 10, Carbon 4, Recycling 6 | 4 | 4 | 10 | 4 | 6 | 28 | Weak |
| 32= | BPSustainability 6, Green 3, CSR 9, Carbon 6, Recycling 3 | 6 | 3 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 27 | Weak |
| 32= | Saudi AramcoSustainability 4, Green 7, CSR 9, Carbon 4, Recycling 3 | 4 | 7 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 27 | Weak |
| 34 | ExxonMobilSustainability 4, Green 3, CSR 10, Carbon 6, Recycling 3 | 4 | 3 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 26 | Weak |
Each area is scored out of 20, which gives a total out of 100. CSR stands for corporate social responsibility. Recycling covers recycling, reuse and reduction.
Frequently asked questions
Is Schneider Electric sustainable?
Schneider Electric scores 77 out of 100 in our review, which places it in the strong band. It runs on 99% renewable electricity, has net zero targets approved by the Science Based Targets initiative, and was ranked the most sustainable company in the world by Corporate Knights in 2025.
Is Schneider Electric the most sustainable company in the world?
Corporate Knights ranked Schneider Electric first in its Global 100 in 2021 and again in 2025. It is the only company to have topped the list twice. In 2026 it fell to 40th, after a change in how the list is scored.
What is Schneider Electric's net zero target?
Net zero across its whole supply chain by 2050, with targets approved by the Science Based Targets initiative. It aims to cut emissions from its own operations by 76% by 2030.
Why was Schneider Electric fined in France?
In October 2024 the French competition authority fined Schneider Electric 207 million euros for fixing resale prices with its distributors. Schneider says it firmly disagrees with the finding.
Does Schneider Electric use renewable energy?
Yes. Schneider Electric sourced 99% of its electricity from renewable sources in 2025, ahead of its target of 90%.
Sources
- Sustainability Online: Corporate Knights Global 100 ranking for 2026
- GreentechLead: Schneider Electric Sustainability Report 2025
- Schneider Electric: Sustainability Impact results, end of 2025
- GreentechLead: Schneider Electric Sustainability Report 2025
- DitchCarbon: Schneider Electric emissions and climate goals
- The Sustainable Innovation: Schneider Electric sustainability
- Corporate Knights: 2025 Global 100
- Schneider Electric: named the world's most sustainable company twice
- Autorité de la concurrence: fines for resale price fixing (October 2024)
- Bloomberg via BNN: Schneider among firms fined 470 million euros in French cartel case
- Schneider Electric: Green and circular
About this review
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