Legrand Partners with U.S. Department of Energy’s Better Climate Challenge to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions

–Latest step in company’s long-standing commitment to sustainability–

WEST HARTFORD, Conn, February 28, 2022 —Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) recognized Legrand for committing to reduce portfolio-wide greenhouse gas emissions by at least 50% within 10 years and to work with DOE to share successful solutions and decarbonization strategies. As a partner in DOE’s Better Climate Challenge, Legrand is one of more than 50 organizations across the U.S. economy that are stepping up to the Challenge and driving real-world action toward a low-carbon future.

“Better Climate Challenge partners like Legrand are committing to decarbonize across their portfolio of buildings, plants, and fleets and share effective strategies to transition our economy to clean energy,” said U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer M. Granholm. “Their leadership and innovation are crucial in our collective fight against climate change while strengthening the U.S. economy.”

Legrand has been a long-time supporter of climate-based initiatives. The company has taken on projects, large and small, to reduce its carbon footprint including installing occupancy sensors, upgrading lighting systems to LED, deploying solid oxide fuel cell technology and leveraging adiabatic water-cooling towers for key manufacturing processes.

“Climate Change is arguably the greatest challenge facing the world today, and so we fully embrace the responsibility we share with other businesses to aggressively reduce our GHG emissions. This is in fact a cornerstone of Legrand’s corporate social responsibility commitments. As a signatory to the Science Based Targets Initiative, we have committed to reduce our Scope 1&2 emissions by 50% by 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality by 2050. We are gratified to have the US Department of Energy’s support and partnership as we pursue these ambitious carbon emission reduction targets.” said John Selldorff, CEO of North and Central America at Legrand.

As Legrand undertakes the Better Climate Challenge, DOE will support its efforts with technical assistance, peer-to-peer learning opportunities, and a platform for the organization to demonstrate its commitment to being part of the solution to climate change.

To reach its emissions reduction target, Legrand plans to continue applying industry best practices, achieving year over year absolute energy consumption reduction across its industrial sites, and by deploying renewable energy sources by way of production or purchase of green energy. Additionally, the company will complete the transition of its sales fleet to low/no carbon vehicles. The Better Climate Challenge is the government platform that provides transparency, accountability, technical assistance, and collaboration to identify decarbonization pathways and provide recognition for leadership across the US economy. The Better Climate Challenge builds on over a decade of DOE experience through the Better Buildings Initiative. Through Better Buildings, DOE partners with public and private sector organizations to make commercial, public, industrial, and residential buildings more efficient, thereby saving billions of dollars on energy bills, reducing emissions, and creating thousands of jobs. To date, more than 950 Better Buildings partners have shared their innovative approaches and strategies for adopting energy efficient technologies. Discover more than 3,000 of these solutions in the Better Buildings Solution Center.

The Better Climate Challenge is the government platform that provides transparency, accountability, technical assistance, and collaboration to identify decarbonization pathways and provide recognition for leadership across the US economy. The Better Climate Challenge builds on over a decade of DOE experience through the Better Buildings Initiative. Through Better Buildings, DOE partners with public and private sector organizations to make commercial, public, industrial, and residential buildings more efficient, thereby saving billions of dollars on energy bills, reducing emissions, and creating thousands of jobs. To date, more than 950 Better Buildings partners have shared their innovative approaches and strategies for adopting energy efficient technologies. Discover more than 3,000 of these solutions in the Better Buildings Solution Center.

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About Legrand
Legrand is the global specialist in electrical and digital building infrastructures. Its comprehensive offering of solutions for commercial, industrial and residential markets makes it a benchmark for customers worldwide. The Group harnesses technological and societal trends with lasting impacts on buildings with the purpose of improving life by transforming the spaces where people live, work and meet with electrical, digital infrastructures and connected solutions that are simple, innovative and sustainable. Drawing on an approach that involves all teams and stakeholders, Legrand is pursuing its strategy of profitable and responsible growth driven by acquisitions and innovation, with a steady flow of new offerings—including products with enhanced value in use (faster expanding segments: datacenters, connected offerings and energy efficiency programs). Legrand reported sales of €7.0 billion in 2021. The company is listed on Euronext Paris and is notably a component stock of the CAC 40 and CAC 40 ESG indexes. (code ISIN FR0010307819).
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