environmental sustainability

We are excited to announce that Cisco is now publishing life cycle assessments (LCAs) for some of our hardware products. LCAs estimate a product’s environmental impact associated with its production, transport, use, and end-of-life. An LCA takes multiple environmental impact categories into account, including greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, water consumption, resource depletion and others, and evaluates all stages of a product’s life cycle using an inventory of relevant environmental inputs. The LCA reports are publicly…

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…