Zero Circle and Zeigo by Schneider Electric Join Forces to Finance Sustainable Decarbonization Through Digital Tools

NEW YORK AND LONDON - Feb. 05, 2025 – Zeigo by Schneider Electric, a premier sustainability software ecosystem, and Zero Circle, a pioneering green finance marketplace, announce a new strategic partnership. This collaboration integrates Zero Circle's financial marketplace into the Zeigo platform, revolutionizing how small and medium enterprises (SMEs), particularly suppliers, embark on decarbonization journeys. The integration empowers organizations to seamlessly measure, manage, and mitigate carbon emissions through accessible, actionable, and financially sustainable solutions.

About Zeigo

• Zeigo, an endorsed brand of Schneider Electric’s Sustainability Business, features the Zeigo Activate platform—a pivotal tool designed to help businesses, particularly companies who are suppliers within a supply chain, set and achieve precise decarbonization targets. This software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution provides customized roadmaps that guide enterprises and their extensive network of suppliers toward effectively reducing their carbon footprint.
• The Zeigo Activate platform is crucial for enterprise supply chains, enabling suppliers to align with corporate sustainability objectives seamlessly. By leveraging advanced data analytics and robust reporting capabilities, suppliers can integrate and achieve sustainability targets, enhancing their contribution to overall decarbonization efforts.
• Used by suppliers of multiple Fortune 500 companies, Zeigo Activate forms the backbone of their decarbonization strategies. Through Zeigo Activate, these global enterprises can drive substantial improvements across their supply chains, ensuring compliance with evolving environmental regulations and meeting sustainability standards. The platform facilitates connections with solution providers in renewable energy and energy efficiency, empowering suppliers to access vital tools and technologies to bolster their sustainability initiatives.
• Additionally, Zeigo Activate fosters collaborative environments where suppliers can effectively share and monitor sustainability metrics, thereby contributing to a comprehensive sustainability strategy that impacts industries globally. By focusing on driving collaborative impact, Zeigo and its enterprise partners are achieving their environmental goals and shaping a sustainable future by transforming how organizations approach sustainability throughout their supply chain.
• Schneider Electric has been an advisor in supply chain decarbonization programs. Energize is one example, which brings together the top pharmaceutical companies as co-sponsors to increase access their shared suppliers have to renewable electricity. The collaboration with ZeroCircle will further strengthen Schneider Electric’s advisory services for such consortiums by helping finance the decarbonization of SME and supplier operations.

About Zero Circle

Zero Circle is an innovative green finance marketplace dedicated to facilitating access to sustainable capital for businesses, empowering them to achieve their sustainability and decarbonization goals.

The Zero Circle Platform

• Embedded Lending Model: Zero Circle leverages its advanced embedded lending capabilities to connect environmentally responsible businesses with a vast network of over 2,000 lenders. This model simplifies the pre-qualification and loan application process, making it accessible for SMEs dedicated to sustainable practices.
• Green Financing Facilitation: The platform automates sustainability evaluations using AI-driven processes, enabling businesses to efficiently track and report their carbon footprint and financial KPIs. This automation facilitates easier access to capital for green projects, aligning investment opportunities with each business's unique sustainability goals.
• Customized Financial Solutions: Zero Circle collaborates closely with SMEs to develop tailored financial packages that cater to diverse green initiatives aimed at reducing environmental impact. This ensures that financial solutions are flexible and aligned with best sustainability practices.
• Financial Monitoring: Beyond facilitating financing, Zero Circle provides ongoing support and monitoring post-funding. This includes offering educational opportunities and tools to efficiently manage sustainability transformations and ensuring projects remain in compliance with green financing criteria and industry standards.

Synergies Between Zeigo and Zero Circle

The integration of Zero Circle into the Zeigo platform presents notable synergies:

• Robust Decarbonization Strategies: By leveraging Zeigo's decarbonization analytics capabilities alongside Zero Circle's financial insights, businesses, and suppliers can craft tailored decarbonization strategies.
• Streamlined Emissions Management: Enhanced access and navigation through simplified carbon measurement, target setting, and emission reduction implementation.
• Integration into Carbon Accounting: This partnership will facilitate integration into the Zeigo carbon accounting platform, allowing users to access Zero Circle's marketplace for suppliers meeting net-zero commitments.
• Empowered Green Finance: Facilitating supplier access to green finance opportunities will enhance their ability to track and manage emissions aligned with net-zero commitments.

Together, Zeigo and Zero Circle are committed to empowering organizations on their journey toward a sustainable future. This partnership enhances both companies' capabilities and aligns with global efforts to combat climate change by making decarbonization accessible and actionable for all businesses.

For more information, Contact zeigo@se.com or contact@zerocircle.eco 

Zero Circle is a green finance marketplace that simplifies access to green capital for businesses. Its AI-powered platform streamlines sustainability assessments and reporting and automates financial key performance indicators (KPIs) to incentivize green financing. The company helps its customers finance and build sustainable practices by tracking, managing, and reporting sustainability and financial performance with lenders, partners, and customers. 

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