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SOPHIA LEONORA MENDELSOHN
Chief Sustainability and Commercial Officer and co-GM for SAP Sustainability
Before SAP, Sophia was CSO and Global Head of ESG at Cognizant. Prior to joining Cognizant in 2020, Sophia was the first Chief Sustainability Officer at JetBlue Airways, Head of Sustainability at Haworth and held an ESG role at the Jane Goodall Institute in Shanghai, China. Sophia has been recognized for her leadership and commitment to corporate citizenship, receiving the US Environmental Protection Agency’s Climate Leadership Award in 2016, and the Climate Leader of the Year award by Ethical Corp. In 2020, she was named one of the top 30 people leading the climate charge by Bloomberg. Sophia speaks Mandarin Chinese, serves on boards and advisory councils and holds a Master of Science in Sustainable Management from Columbia University.

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ALICIA LENZE
Global Head of Sustainability Marketing
Experienced sustainability and corporate affairs executive with extensive international experience in corporate citizenship, sustainability and social impact strategy as well as product, corporate and executive communications programs in the IT sector. Proven track record building relationships with philanthropic organizations and managing public/private partnerships. Areas of expertise: communications strategy; partnership management; CSR; sustainability; corporate volunteering; stakeholder engagement; strategic communications counsel; executive communications and thought leadership; reputation management; crisis communications; media relations; spokesperson; employee communications; content creation; integrated program planning and execution; and budget management.

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Sustainability Goals

Current Sustainability Goals

Latest Sustainability Reporting

SAP Integrated Report 2023 (February 2024)

Highlights

Achieved carbon neutrality commitment within the targeted timeframe.
Decreased total energy consumption by 11% and lowered total data center electricity consumption by 30% (to 213GWh) compared to 2022.
After post-COVID-19 catch-up effects and a corresponding increase in 2022, total energy consumption in our own operations decreased slightly in 2023. Looking at the data center electricity consumption, we continue to see a decrease attributable to a shift toward hyperscale services and the implemented energy efficiency measures taking effect. We have continued to reduce all electricity-related emission categories with electricity from renewable energy sources.
Financed a diverse portfolio of carbon projects with a strategic focus on natural carbon sinks to help avoid and remove from the atmosphere the equivalent of the remaining emissions from its own operations (2023: 215 kt, 2022: 97 kt; scope 1, 2, and selected scope 3 emissions).
All offsets were generated by reforestation, forest protection, rural energy, and agroforestry projects implemented in collaboration with local communities. This voluntary investment in certified carbon offsets helped SAP reach its carbon-neutrality goal in 2023.
Invested for the first time as a pilot in Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF), to reduce our business-flight-related emissions compared to emissions generated by using conventional (fossil) aviation fuel.
Reduced tonnage of e-waste by 46%.
Reduced water usage by 23%
Reduced paper usage by 88% (over 73 million pages) since 2009.

Recent News

2024

Joined CEF in March!

2023

SAP — Is establishing a supply chain engagement program by 2024 for key suppliers to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions along the company’s upstream value chain. SAP plans to work with its top 100 suppliers to report and record product-level emissions and aims to have those suppliers report their company-wide emissions and product-level emissions for relevant key products by 2027, allowing SAP to report emissions based on actuals instead of averages. (July 2023)

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Sustainable Business Now (GlobeScan, Leaders on Purpose, and SAP) — This new platform showcases how leading companies from around the world are tackling sustainability challenges, providing replicable, scalable best practices to users. The platform provides case studies from a variety of industries, addressing issues such as decarbonization, inequality, and how to improve and scale social programs. (Jan 2023)

2022

Partnership for Carbon Transparency (PACT) — WBCSD announced it had achieved a major milestone in developing the Pathfinder Network (launched at COP26), a decentralized network infrastructure for sharing product-level carbon emissions data across value chains and industries: the first successful data exchange across different technology systems by CircularTree, IBM, SAP, and CEF member Siemens. PACT next plans to add new tech components, including from CEF members Amazon and Microsoft. It expects the Pathfinder Network to be available for use by the end of the year. (April 2022)

UNILEVER / SAP — CEF member Unilever announced a successful proof of concept using GreenToken by SAP, a blockchain-based chain of custody solution, to track more than 188,000 tons of oil palm fruit through its complex supply chain. Unilever has committed to achieving a deforestation-free supply chain by 2023. (March 2022)

Press Release

2021

EASTMAN/SAP — Announced a partnership to pilot “GreenToken by SAP,” a blockchain-based platform to give brands and consumers traceable information of products’ sustainable attributes, including certified recycled content. (May 2021)

Corporate Knights and As You Sow released the 2021 Carbon Clean200 list, which ranks the world’s publicly listed companies leading the way with solutions for the transition to a clean energy future. The top 10 included the following (February 2021):