Schneider Electric launches Zeigo™ Hub, a scalable platform to accelerate the decarbonization of supply chains and achieve global net-zero ambitions
Schneider Electric, a global leader in digital transformation of energy management and automation, today announced the launch of Zeigo™ Hub by Schneider Electric, a powerful new digital platform designed to help organizations decarbonize their supply chains at scale. This innovative solution marks a significant step forward, enabling companies to achieve their Scope 3 emissions targets and move confidently and clearly toward net-zero emissions.
Global supply chains are increasingly under pressure from customers and regulators to report, disclose, and take action to reduce their emissions.
Zeigo Hub addresses this growing need for progress and transparency by offering a modular, action-oriented approach to sustainability. The platform enables organizations to engage suppliers of all sizes, track emissions across multiple tiers of suppliers, and achieve measurable results through training, tools, and expert support.
“A decarbonized supply chain is no longer just a ‘nice-to-have’—it’s a strategic necessity,” said Laura Eve, Vice President of SaaS Sustainability Solutions at Schneider Electric. “With Zeigo Hub, we are providing companies with the tools and analytics to help transform their supply chains into engines of sustainability.”
A new era of supplier engagement and innovation
Zeigo Hub is designed to engage suppliers at all stages of their sustainability journey, regardless of their size, maturity, or experience. The platform removes traditional barriers to participation with phased onboarding, a user-friendly interface, and built-in learning tools that allow suppliers to immediately begin calculating and managing their emissions.
Unlike static data collection tools, Zeigo Hub encourages two-way collaboration through personalized learning paths, decarbonization toolkits, and comparative analytics dashboards. This creates a dynamic and accessible environment where suppliers can make informed, measurable decisions and initiators (customers) can scale positive impact across their entire supply chain.
The platform’s powerful analytics engine provides real-time visualization of supplier engagement, emissions dynamics, and progress toward science-based targets.
The data is structured to support CDP, CSRD, and TCFD reporting, as well as internal sustainability reporting, ensuring transparency and compliance with global standards.
Each supplier invited to Zeigo Hub gets access to individual decarbonization roadmaps and verified solution providers, enabling real emissions reductions across the entire network. All participation costs are covered by the initiating company, removing financial barriers for suppliers and ensuring broad, inclusive engagement. As part of Schneider Electric, Zeigo Hub is an integral part of a global ecosystem of sustainability experts, advisory services, and decarbonization solutions, providing companies with deep support and trust that goes beyond traditional software.
Zeigo Hub leverages advanced agentic AI capabilities to accelerate decarbonization processes, improve data-driven decision-making, and scale impact across complex value chains. It is the first product launched as part of Schneider Electric’s AI-native ecosystem, unveiled on May 15, 2025, which combines the company’s leading expertise in sustainability with innovations in artificial intelligence. Thanks to agentic AI, the platform’s functionality improves and personalizes the user experience by simplifying data entry through web scraping and upload tools, tailoring invitations to participate, and providing additional oversight of the program on behalf of corporate sponsors.
Fostering global impact through collaboration
Schneider Electric is already a recognized leader in supply chain decarbonization, both through its collaboration with leading global brands and through its own award-winning internal initiative, the Zero Carbon Project.
Since 2021, the company has launched more than 20 global supply chain decarbonization programs, including the cross-industry initiatives Energize, Catalyze, and Materialize. Today, Schneider Electric collaborates with more than 40 brands that sponsor programs with over 2,700 registered suppliers.
Zeigo Hub will serve as the technological foundation and tool for collaborative action within supply chain decarbonization programs, making large-scale climate change more accessible than ever before. By facilitating collaboration between customers and suppliers, the platform helps companies foster a culture of continuous improvement and shared responsibility. This approach not only accelerates emissions reduction, but also increases supply chain resilience and strengthens long-term business value.
“Zeigo Hub is a bold step forward in the sustainable development of supply chains,” said Iv. “It’s about turning ambition into real action — empowering every supplier, every partner, and every organization to contribute to a zero-emission future.”
Zeigo Hub is now available to organizations worldwide. To learn more about how the platform can support your supply chain decarbonization transformation, visit https://www.zeigo.com/zeigo-hub.
About Schneider Electric
Schneider’s purpose is to create impact by empowering everyone to make the most of our energy and resources, enabling progress and sustainability for all. We call this Life Is On.
Our mission is to be the trusted partner in sustainability and efficiency.
We are a global leader in industrial technology, bringing global expertise in electrification, automation, and digitalization to smart industries, reliable infrastructure, future-ready data centers, intelligent buildings, and intuitive homes. Leveraging our deep industry expertise, we provide integrated, end-to-end industrial IoT solutions powered by artificial intelligence with connected products, automation, software, and services, creating digital twins to deliver profitable growth for our customers.
Our company’s main resource is our 150,000 employees and over a million partners working in more than 100 countries around the world to ensure proximity to our customers and stakeholders. We support diversity and inclusion in everything we do, guided by our meaningful goal of a sustainable future for all.
Discover the latest insights shaping sustainability, Energy 4.0, and next-generation automation at Schneider Electric Insights.
Schneider Electric, a leader in digital transformation in energy management and automation, has announced the launch of the third chapter of its online School of Sustainability, a free training program designed to provide partners with the tools to become leaders in sustainability.
This chapter is dedicated to teaching businesses how to decarbonize and leverage the benefits of sustainability through electrification and digitalization. According to research, companies that fail to adapt to climate risks could lose up to 7% of their annual profits by 2035, underscoring the urgency of corporate climate action. The third section directly addresses this challenge by offering practical insights to help organizations remain resilient and profitable in a rapidly changing world.
The School of Sustainability, first launched to an external audience in 2023, offers interactive courses aimed at improving companies’ sustainability performance. The program consists of three parts and responds to the growing need for accessible, applied learning on key sustainability topics. Sections 1 and 2, which are already available, cover the basics of sustainability and the steps for building and implementing a decarbonization strategy.
Section 3 focuses on how companies can implement decarbonization through energy efficiency improvements, carbon footprint reduction, and leveraging the strategic advantages of sustainable development.
It presents individual roadmaps for key industries, including:
This section introduces practical tools and solutions that make sustainable transformation real and profitable for both businesses and their customers. It is a starting point for improving the efficiency of companies and turning sustainable development into a competitive advantage.
“I am proud to launch the new section of our School of Sustainable Development — it is an important step that brings everything together into a single, coherent system. As part of our ongoing support for partners and customers on their path to sustainability, this section will provide them with the tools and knowledge to implement sustainable development principles in their organizations and for their customers,” said Soroush Heradmand, Head of Partner Sustainability at Schneider Electric.
“As the world becomes increasingly digital and electrified, our partner ecosystem is uniquely positioned to address today’s energy challenges,” added Frederic Godemelle, Executive Vice President of Energy Management at Schneider Electric. “Every business, regardless of size, plays an important role in the energy transition. We strive to help them turn sustainability into a competitive advantage by combining environmental and economic benefits for success in a rapidly changing world.”
About Schneider Electric
Schneider’s goal is to create impact by empowering everyone to make the most of our energy and resources, enabling progress and sustainability for all. We call this Life Is On.
Our mission is to be a trusted partner in sustainability and efficiency.
We are a global leader in industrial technology, bringing global expertise in electrification, automation, and digitalization to smart industries, reliable infrastructure, future-ready data centers, intelligent buildings, and intuitive homes. Leveraging our deep industry expertise, we provide integrated, end-to-end industrial IoT solutions powered by artificial intelligence with connected products, automation, software, and services, creating digital twins to deliver profitable growth for our customers.
Our company’s main resource is our 150,000 employees and over a million partners working in more than 100 countries around the world to ensure proximity to our customers and stakeholders. We support diversity and inclusion in everything we do, guided by our meaningful goal of a sustainable future for all.
Discover the latest insights shaping sustainability, Energy 4.0, and next-generation automation at Schneider Electric Insights.
The corn market is gradually shifting its focus to the new harvest, last year’s grain has almost lost its liquidity, and there are practically no real deals with it, At the same time, Europe is showing steady interest in
Ukrainian products, and demand from importers remains high, according to the analytical cooperative “Pusk,” created within the framework of the All-Ukrainian Agrarian Council (VAR).
“The new corn harvest is valued on the market in a wide range of $197-203 per ton. Some traders are already offering higher prices — $205-206 on a CPT-port basis with deliveries in October-November. Demand from importers is active, particularly from Spain, Portugal, and the Netherlands, with deliveries in November-December. The EU is facing serious yield problems. In France, the first threshing showed only 3-4 tons/ha. Other corn producers — Romania, Hungary, and Poland — are facing similar difficulties, forcing the EU to increase imports from the projected 18-19 million tons to 22-23 million tons, and Ukraine looks to be a key supplier here,” analysts noted.
According to their information, Ukrainian exporters have already sold about 4 million tons of the new harvest to importers with deliveries in November-December. However, there may be a shortage on the market due to weather conditions, which will further stimulate the growth of purchase prices.
“Traders may have to raise prices, but no significant growth is expected. One of the determining factors will be the progress of the harvesting campaign. Due to the delay in vegetation, the first significant batches of corn from the center and north will arrive only in the second half of October. We can predict indicative prices of $220 CPT port in October. However, during this period, American corn will actively enter the market. Its volume will significantly exceed demand, which will put serious pressure on prices in October-December. Therefore, in November-January, the market is likely to stabilize at $220-230 CPT port per ton, which is in line with seasonal patterns,” Pusk concluded.
In January-June 2025, Insurance Guarantees of Ukraine (IGU, Kyiv) collected UAH 784,000 in gross premiums, which is 20.8% more than in the same period of 2024, according to data from the rating agency Expert-Rating confirming the insurer’s financial stability rating for the first half of 2025 at “uaAA” on the national scale.
The information notes that during this period in 2025, the company did not make any insurance payments.
SGU’s equity capital for the reporting period decreased by 7.31% to UAH 50.86 million, while gross liabilities increased by 42.2% to UAH 1.46 million.
The amount of cash and cash equivalents in SGU’s accounts as of July 1, 2025, was UAH 43.77 million, which is 7.96% less than on the same date a year ago. At the same time, as of the beginning of the second half of 2025, the company was very well provided with highly liquid assets, the volume of which exceeded the insurer’s gross liabilities by almost 30 times, the RA notes.
The company’s activities in the first half of 2025 were unprofitable: the insurer incurred a net loss of UAH 1.232 million and an operating loss of UAH 2.025 million.
PJSC “SGU” was registered in November 2005. It has licenses to conduct 15 types of insurance activities: four for compulsory insurance and 11 for voluntary insurance.
Tour operator Join UP! Ukraine served more than 236 domestic tourists this summer season, which is 70% more than a year ago, according to Irina Mosulezna, managing director of Join UP! Ukraine, as reported by Interfax-Ukraine.
In total, over 325,000 Ukrainians used its services to plan their vacations in the first eight months of this year. For comparison, in the same period in 2022, there were 158,000 domestic tourists, in 2023 – 238,000, and last year, according to data from January to August – 260,000.
“This summer, we are seeing a noticeable revival of interest in travel: the number of tourists has increased by more than 70% compared to the summer of 2024. The total volume has not yet reached pre-war levels, but the stable dynamics during the war years are a good sign that Ukrainians are ready to plan their vacations again. There is also a noticeable increase in interest in B2C online booking — we are only at the beginning of this path, but we are already seeing demand for digital services,” Mosulezna said.
According to her, the demands of Ukrainians remain stable: current restrictions on tourists from Russia, popular family trips, and an increase in the number of military personnel among customers. Among other things, she noted that as early as August this year, Ukrainians began booking vacations for the 2026 summer season. This trend demonstrates a gradual return to long-term planning, which was almost unheard of in the early years of the full-scale war.
The most popular summer destinations were the traditional ones: Egypt, Turkey, Greece, Bulgaria, and Montenegro. The operator’s summer program included new tours to Mallorca and Alicante (Spain) and an expanded flight program to Halkidiki (Greece). At the same time, Mosulezna also noted the interest of vacationers in a new destination—the resort of El Alamein in Egypt.
As for Turkey, even despite the increase in the cost of holidays, it has maintained its leading position and expanded its offer thanks to the return of the popular resorts of Bodrum and Dalaman, the expert noted.
According to the company, bus tours remain one of the most stable travel formats for Ukrainians during the war. This year, demand has increased most for Bulgaria as a destination due to affordable prices and convenient logistics, with the possibility of departure from frontline cities. Among the new features of the season are the resumption of tours to Greece (Chalkidiki) with departure from Kyiv and Lviv, as well as the offer of luxury buses to Turkey.
As for domestic tourism, the highest demand this summer was traditionally for the Carpathians and popular resorts in western Ukraine: Truskavets, Polyana, Skhidnytsia, and Zakarpattia. The average check for domestic tours this year increased by about 10-15% compared to last year. Demand for Odessa and the Odessa region remained below pre-war levels due to security restrictions and rising hotel prices.
In 2025, the average cost of tourist packages for Ukrainians increased in both the air travel and bus tour segments. For example, bus tours to Bulgaria rose in price by an average of 13%, to Montenegro by 57%, while tours to Turkey became slightly cheaper compared to last year’s offer (by 6%).
Prices for air travel to Greece were 4% higher, to Egypt – 7%, and to Turkey – 13%. Price dynamics were influenced by general market factors such as rising fuel prices, changes in logistics routes, and currency fluctuations.
“Despite the price increase, demand for vacations remains high. Even in difficult conditions, tourism remains a way for Ukrainians to recover physically, emotionally, and socially,” Mosulezna concludes.
As reported, the travel company Join UP! LLC was established in 2013 with a registered capital of UAH 72,671,000. The ultimate beneficiaries are Yuriy and Oleksandr Alby.
According to OpenDataBot, Join UP! Ukraine (Join UP! Ukraine LLC) was established in 2018 with a registered capital of UAH 50,000. Its founder is Join UP! Holding OU (Estonia), and the ultimate beneficiaries are Alina and Alexander Alby.
The brand’s international expansion covers eight markets: the Baltic states, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Poland, Romania, and the Czech Republic. Preparations for the launch in Slovakia and Hungary are nearing completion. Last year, the brand also opened its first franchise agency on the international market in Katowice, Poland.
Ukrainian producers exported chicken eggs worth $103.1 million in January-July 2025, which is 2.6 times more than in the same period last year, according to the Ukrainian Poultry Farmers Union, citing data from the State Customs Service.
The industry association specified that in July this year, 190.6 million eggs worth $17 million were exported, which exceeded the figure a year ago by 86%.
The top three importers of Ukrainian chicken eggs in July 2025 were Spain (21.5 million eggs), the United Kingdom (21.4 million eggs), and Poland (22.7 million eggs).
According to the Ukrainian Poultry Farmers Union, the main buyers of Ukrainian eggs in January-July were Croatia (11.8%), the United Kingdom (10.6%), and Spain (9.5%).
