SAP
CEF Lead Executives
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SOPHIA LEONORA MENDELSOHNList Item 1
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.
Latest Sustainability Reporting
(February 2025)
Highlights
- In 2024, reduced gross greenhouse gas emissions per net revenue by 10.5% over 2023.
- Continued to power its own offices, data centers and colocations with 100% renewable energy, and, overall, 41% of total energy consumed came from renewable sources.
- Between 2012 and 2024, SAP’s nature investments, donations, and sponsorships helped plant more than 20 million trees around the world to benefit people, the climate, and biodiversity.
- Reduced total electronic waste by 47% compared to 2023.
- Reduced total water withdrawn 4% compared to 2023.
- Increased women in management to 30.2% in 2024 globally (up from 27.5% in 2020).
- Increased Black and Latino employees in the U.S. to 4% and 5.8% respectively in 2024, up from 3.3% and 5.1% in 2020.
- 97.1% of employees completed its Global Anti-Discrimination Policy course in 2024, beyond its ambition of an 85% completion rate.
Recent News
2025
CORPORATE KNIGHTS — Published its 2025 Global 100 List, ranking the world’s most sustainable companies (with revenues of over $1 billion) along 25 indicators. For the companies in the Top 100 in 2025, 53% of their total revenue was sustainable as was 58% of their total investments. This compares to 15% of total revenue and 15% for total investments for the 8,259 other publicly traded companies with revenues of over $1 billion. The top ranked company was CEF Member Schneider Electric, moving up from #7 in 2024. Other CEF Members in the Top 100 included Trane Technologies (#26), Cisco (#54), SAP (#58), Prologis (#63), Apple (#69), Unilever (#71), and HP Inc. (#79). (Jan 2025)
2024
CEOs of 22 global businesses wrote an open letter calling on governments to agree on an ambitious and actionable treaty to end plastic pollution. The CEOs, as members of the Business Coalition for a Global Plastics Treaty, argue that “a treaty based on voluntary measures alone risks delaying action by decades.” They call for agreement at the upcoming November treaty negotiations on: 1) global criteria that enables the restriction and phase out of chemicals of concern and problematic and avoidable plastic products; 2) sector-specific approaches for circular plastic product design; 3) common definitions for effective implementation of Extended Producer Responsibility schemes; and 4) a strong mandate for the governing body to strengthen the agreement over time. CEF members represented by CEOs include PepsiCo, SAP, and Unilever. (Nov 2024)
Rise Ahead Pledge — Eleven new companies joined the pledge to address the $1.125 trillion funding need of social innovators and entrepreneurs around the world. This brings the total signatories to 24, including CEF members GE HealthCare (foundation); Hewlett Packard Enterprise (foundation); Microsoft; and SAP. (Sept 2024)
TIME / STATISTA — Announced their World’s Most Sustainable Companies of 2024 list, based on companies’ climate targets and ratings, Scope 1 and 2 emissions and reductions in 2021 and 2022, energy use, and if they have incorporated sustainability into their business models. CEF Member companies in the Top 20 included: Schneider Electric (#1); Siemens (#11); Mastercard (#13); SAP (#15); and HP (#20). (July 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)
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)
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):
- Alphabet (Google)
- Siemens
- TSMC
- SAP
- Iberdrola
- HP
- Cisco
- Schneider Electric
- Tesla
- Unilever