Chief Sustainability Office

Driving social impact at work: A rewarding collaboration with WWF-Australia

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Driving social impact at work: A rewarding collaboration with WWF-Australia

Ever wonder how you can champion a cause you believe in at work? I sat down with a leader in the Asia, Pacific, Japan, and China (APJC) region to learn about how she harnessed her roles within Cisco—both in the Cisco Customer Experience team and as a core team volunteer with the Cisco Green Team Network Inclusive Community, one of Cisco’s employee resource groups (ERGs), dedicated to connecting Cisco employees for social and environmental actions….

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Award-winning Cisco Sustainability Data Foundation takes the stage as key to sustainability success

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Award-winning Cisco Sustainability Data Foundation takes the stage as key to sustainability success

Colin Seward and Sneha Balasubramanian from Cisco’s Chief Sustainability Office accept the award from SustainableIT.org Cisco’s ability to advance ambitious environmental sustainability goals comes from leadership and our next generation environmental sustainability strategy: the “Plan for Possible” — a strategy that defines our key priorities to connect a regenerative future. Importantly, making progress toward these goals requires data and technology — specifically, our Sustainability Data Foundation (SDF). Cisco’s focus on data-driven environmental sustainability contributed to…

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Financing regenerative agriculture: a pathway to healthier soil, cleaner water, and climate resilience

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Financing regenerative agriculture: a pathway to healthier soil, cleaner water, and climate resilience

Meet four Cisco Foundation partners working to support farmers’ transition to regenerative practices to improve resiliency and mitigate the climate crisis. As the world faces the impacts of climate change, such as soil degradation, biodiversity die-off, and water pollution, regenerative agriculture has emerged as a pathway to restore our relationship with the earth and the food it provides us. Regenerative agriculture practices like cover cropping, no-till farming, and crop rotation help restore organic matter in…

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Three years of progress on the pathway to net zero

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Three years of progress on the pathway to net zero

Climate change is both an urgent issue needing immediate action and a topic that requires long-term planning for positive transformation. Balancing these two horizons can be a challenge and key to making progress is defining a north star. Three years ago, Cisco announced its north star: a goal to reach net zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions across our value chain by 2040, and in 2022 that goal was approved by the Science-Based Targets initiative (SBTi)….

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Sustainability 101: How Hybrid Work Can Advance Sustainability in the Workforce

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Sustainability 101: How Hybrid Work Can Advance Sustainability in the Workforce

Do you feel a bit lost when people refer to certain environmental sustainability topics and aren’t sure where to start when it comes to learning more? Sustainability 101 is a blog series that you can turn to for information about different environmental terms that may come up at work, during discussions with friends, and even at your annual holiday gathering. “The Gartner®1Q24 Global Labor Market Survey found that 44% of workers worldwide have a hybrid…

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How technology is being used to help support environmental conservation

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How technology is being used to help support environmental conservation

A new study in the scientific journal Science shows that environmental conservation is needed to help slow and potentially reverse biodiversity loss, “They found that more than half of the time, conservation actions had a net positive effect but did not necessarily stop biodiversity decline. This work shows that multiple types of conservation actions are usually beneficial and are needed to curb the loss of biodiversity.”  World Nature Conservation Day offers a moment to reflect…

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Striving for Sustainability: Meet Pelin

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Striving for Sustainability: Meet Pelin

This blog is part of our focus on Cisco employees who are “Striving for Sustainability” by finding opportunities to integrate sustainability in their day-to-day work. When I announced the company’s next generation environmental sustainability strategy, The Plan for Possible, last July, it led Cisco employees to wonder how to further integrate sustainability into their work. And this can be done in many ways, no matter what area you work in. Meet Pelin Salem. She is a…

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Sustainability 101: What is a resilient ecosystem?

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Sustainability 101: What is a resilient ecosystem?

Do you feel a bit lost when people refer to certain environmental sustainability topics and aren’t sure where to start when it comes to learning more? Sustainability 101 is a blog series that you can turn to for information about different environmental terms that may come up at work, during discussions with friends, and even at your annual holiday gathering. “Biodiversity forms the web of life that we depend on for so many things –…

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Climate concerns: Personal advice on how to navigate eco-anxiety

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Climate concerns: Personal advice on how to navigate eco-anxiety

We’ve all seen the headlines in the news focusing on wildfires, floods, droughts, and hurricanes. For those of us who care deeply about the health of our planet, it’s hard not to be concerned about the consequences of climate change. According to the American Psychological Association (APA), “eco-anxiety” refers to “anxiety or worry about climate change and its effects.” May is Mental Health Awareness Month, and in honor of that, I decided it was timely to…

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Earth Day: How we’re helping our social and environmental systems heal and thrive

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Earth Day: How we’re helping our social and environmental systems heal and thrive

Earth Day was founded in the United States on April 22, 1970, to mark the emergence of the modern environmental movement, and it inspired more than 20 million Americans to take action. By 2020, Earth Day had grown to become an international movement, with more than 1 billion worldwide participating in Earth Day actions. More than fifty years later, the world is more connected than ever before, but we’re suffering from new forms of disconnection:…

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