Planet
1. Our footprint As a manufacturing company, we are aware that our operations have an impact on the environment. Furthermore, our products consume energy. Despite technological advances, 95% of a luminaire’s environmental impact is still related to its energy use. Street lighting accounts for 15 - 40% of the total energy spent in standard cities worldwide 3 . At Schréder, we are committed to playing a key role in protecting the environment by reducing the impact of our manufacturing activities, products and services. We will do this by delivering a better quality of light, through an intelligent use of technology, and taking into account the latest scientific and environmental knowledge. 1.1. Our operations Reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions linked to our operations is one of the objectives of the “Together for our Planet” pillar of our “Together for our Future” project. Our target for 2022 is to reduce our company carbon footprint by 20% (compared to a baseline of 2018). To do so, we have established an action plan at Group level which focuses on reducing: our consumption of raw materials by reviewing our product design to increase material efficiency;
Annual footprint By sources of GHG emissions
the impact of our energy consumption by shifting, wherever possible, our factories to green energy and by investing in technologies that enable energy savings; the impact of our logistics operations through flow optimisation; our employee mobility impact by limiting business travel and integrating greener mobility solutions for employees. As well as the core actions listed above, our factories will also work on reducing their waste through a global waste management programme that promotes re-use, recovery and recycling, as appropriate. At the end of 2019, we started to measure Schréder’s operational environmental impact. The main sources of GHG emissions generated by our own operations are: 1. Product materials; 2. Logistics; 3. Employee mobility; 4. Infrastructure. We decided to measure our carbon footprint with an intensity ratio, by dividing our absolute GHG emissions by the number of lumens produced. We chose this reporting calculation methodology primarily because Schréder’s final output to its customers is light, which is measured in lumens. At the same time, we wanted a measurement system which gives the full picture of our carbon
5%
2%
19%
2020
74%
Infrastructure Mobility Logistics Product Materials
By tCO 2 e/Mlum
12
12
Total entities Target 2022
10
10
8,9
8
8
6
6
4
4
2
2
0 0
2018
2019
2020
13
(3) Source: https://aip.scitation.org/doi/pdf/10.1063/1.5112267#:~:text=A%20street%20lighting%20system%20consumes,HPSV%2C%20MH%2C%20or%20MV
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