INTELLIGENT BRANDS // Green Technology
Schneider Electric launches
partnership with Sustainable
Energy for All (SEforAll)
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chneider Electric, a leader in
digital transformation of energy
management and automation, is
pursuing its commitment to help reduce
energy poverty and provide universal access
to environmentally friendly energy, by
entering into a partnership with Sustainable
Energy for All (SEforALL), a global non-
profit organisation. The aim is to accelerate
progress towards the United Nations
Sustainable Development Goal 7 on energy.
The four-year partnership was signed on
www.intelligentcio.com
January 23 2018 at the World Economic
Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, by Rachel
Kyte, CEO and Special Representative of the
UN Secretary-General for Sustainable Energy
for All, and Jean-Pascal Tricoire, Chairman &
CEO at Schneider Electric. for everyone everywhere. SDG 7 aims
to ‘ensure access to affordable, reliable,
sustainable and modern energy for all’ as
the prerequisite for child education, quality
of life, economic development and effective
healthcare systems.
The United Nations’ sustainable
development agenda sets 17 Sustainable
Development Goals (SDGs) to achieve by
2030 in order to eliminate poverty, protect
the planet and ensure peace and prosperity While one billion inhabitants will continue
to rely on dangerous or ‘dirty’ forms of
energy by 2030 under current scenarios,
SDG 7 aims at closing this gap to reach
universal access. SDG 7 also aims to
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