Energy management and automation company Schneider Electric announced it is launching a project with its top 1,000 suppliers to halve their operations’ Carbon Dioxide emissions by 2025.

The company said under the Zero Carbon Project Schneider Electric will provide tools and resources to program participants to help them set and achieve their own carbon reduction targets.

It said that suppliers will be first encouraged to quantify their CO2 emissions using the company’s digital tools and will then use that data to set goals and strategies for emissions reduction.

The company said these suppliers also represent 70 per cent of the company’s carbon emissions.

“Schneider aims to reduce scope 3 emissions by 35 per cent by 2030 but we can’t make this journey alone and we encourage suppliers to join us as they are an integral part of our ecosystem,” Olivier Blum, Chief Strategy and Sustainability Officer said.

The company also said the program will be supported by Schneider’s Energy & Sustainability Services division, which has partnered on similar supply chain decarbonization initiatives with its corporate clients, including Walmart, GSK, and the global Sustainable Apparel Coalition.