Limiting the environmental footprint
of the Group's activities

The prevention of environmental risks and the continuous improvement of performance on its sites are priorities for the Legrand Group. The environmental management system for the industrial and logistics sites, which is regularly assessed, implements the appropriate action plans. This process is often marked by ISO 14001 certification of the site. At the end of 2010, over 80% of sites worldwide were certified.
The Group's environmental approach also involves the introduction of actions to:

•  Manage water consumption
•  Reduce and recover waste by developing sorting and reducing the volume of production waste at source
•  Reduce energy consumption and control discharges into the air (VOC, CO₂,etc.)
•  Discover the green building solutions.

Legrand Climact: to reduce CO₂ emissions

Legrand promotes the lowering of greenhouse gas emissions via its internal "Legrand Climact" project, launched in 2007, which focuses on three key areas of action: energy management at industrial sites, eco-design of products, and transport.

This initiative has enabled significant reductions to be achieved year on year.
In 2011, as part of its new Sustainable Development roadmap, Legrand produced a calculation formula for its carbon footprint.

Initial results bear out the relevance of the identified areas of action. Details of the carbon footprint will be released for the first time in the forthcoming edition of the Group's reference document, and figures updated annually.

Breakdown of Group carbon emissions (at end 2010)

Carbon footprint methodology - GHG protocol:

Scope 1: emissions linked to the use and production of energy forms other than electricity, for heating purposes and production processes
Scope 2: emissions linked to electricity consumption at production sites
Scope 3: other types of emissions

The Legrand Group confirms its commitment to combating climate change by signing up to the 2°C Challenge Communiqué