Schneider Electrical has a brand new chief sustainability officer, simply six months after her predecessor was appointed to the place.
Incoming CSO Esther Finidori beforehand served as a vp for technique at Schneider Electrical, which relies in France. She replaces Hong Kong-based Chris Leong, who moved to the water therapy firm Ecolab to change into chief advertising and innovation officer.Â
Schneider Electrical didn’t instantly reply to a request for touch upon the timing of Leong’s departure.
Success in sight
Finidori inherits a sustainability operation that has made robust progress on key targets. Schneider Electrical’s emissions targets, which have been validated by the Science Based mostly Targets initiative, require the corporate to cut back Scope 1 and a pair of emissions by 76 p.c by 2030, relative to a 2021 baseline. For Scope 3, which constitutes 99 p.c of the baseline complete, it’s taking pictures for a 25 p.c discount over the identical time-frame. In line with the corporate’s information for 2024, Scope 1 and a pair of emissions fell by 51 p.c and Scope 3 by 19 p.c.
Finidori joined Schneider in 2016 as a director of sustainable provide chain and carbon dioxide technique, earlier than progressing to change into a vp for surroundings in 2021. She was beforehand a supervisor at Carbon 4, a local weather consultancy, and holds masters in know-how coverage and industrial engineering, respectively, from the College of Cambridge and the CentraleSupélec, close to Paris.
