We’re excited to announce that Cisco is now publishing life cycle assessments (LCAs) for a few of our {hardware} merchandise.
LCAs estimate a product’s environmental affect related to its manufacturing, transport, use, and end-of-life. An LCA takes a number of environmental affect classes under consideration, together with greenhouse gasoline (GHG) emissions, water consumption, useful resource depletion and others, and evaluates all levels of a product’s life cycle utilizing a list of related environmental inputs.
The LCA studies are publicly obtainable on cisco.com to supply clear environmental affect details about Cisco merchandise to our prospects, companions, and different stakeholders.
For merchandise we assess, we publish an in depth report and a two-page abstract outlining high-level outcomes of the product’s GHG emissions.
Product LCA studies present many advantages, together with:
- Giving prospects visibility into the environmental affect of the merchandise they buy from Cisco
- Supporting prospects in calculating the general environmental affect and GHG emissions of their IT infrastructure
- Informing Cisco product design choices by figuring out alternatives to cut back vitality consumption, optimize useful resource use and cut back waste
- Enabling Cisco to establish component-level hotspots and assist prioritize find out how to deal with these excessive affect areas
- Addressing product ecolabel necessities
- Utilizing the findings to implement greatest practices in Cisco’s Round Design Ideas.
Our staff within the Cisco Chief Sustainability Workplace is partnering with colleagues in Cisco’s Provide Chain group and product enterprise items to provide these studies. We plan to proceed to publish the studies on cisco.com as they change into obtainable.
Our hope is that the LCAs illustrate a product’s affect on the atmosphere, offering precious insights to assist Cisco groups design merchandise with sustainability in thoughts and enhance visibility on product environmental impacts for Cisco and our prospects.
Whereas many know-how firms publish LCAs, Cisco is without doubt one of the first to provide them for networking tools, resembling Catalyst switches.
You will discover details about our LCA methodology in our printed studies. We intend to proceed refining our methodology, assess our merchandise, and publish the outcomes to facilitate continued transparency. We additionally plan to leverage the LCAs as we monitor our progress towards our aim to achieve internet zero GHG emissions by 2040.
The LCA studies are publicly obtainable on cisco.com to supply clear environmental affect details about Cisco merchandise to our prospects, companions, and different stakeholders.
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