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 influence related to its manufacturing, transport, use, and end-of-life. An LCA takes a number of environmental influence classes into consideration, together with greenhouse fuel (GHG) emissions, water consumption, useful resource depletion and others, and evaluates all phases of a product’s life cycle utilizing a list of related environmental inputs.
The LCA stories are publicly out there on cisco.com to offer clear environmental influence 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 stories present many advantages, together with:
- Giving prospects visibility into the environmental influence of the merchandise they buy from Cisco
- Supporting prospects in calculating the general environmental influence and GHG emissions of their IT infrastructure
- Informing Cisco product design selections by figuring out alternatives to cut back power consumption, optimize useful resource use and cut back waste
- Enabling Cisco to establish component-level hotspots and assist prioritize handle these excessive influence areas
- Addressing product ecolabel necessities
- Utilizing the findings to implement greatest practices in Cisco’s Round Design Rules.
Our workforce within the Cisco Chief Sustainability Workplace is partnering with colleagues in Cisco’s Provide Chain group and product enterprise items to supply these stories. We plan to proceed to publish the stories on cisco.com as they change into out there.
Our hope is that the LCAs illustrate a product’s influence on the surroundings, offering priceless insights to assist Cisco groups design merchandise with sustainability in thoughts and improve visibility on product environmental impacts for Cisco and our prospects.
Whereas many know-how corporations publish LCAs, Cisco is among the first to supply them for networking gear, resembling Catalyst switches.
You’ll find details about our LCA methodology in our revealed stories. 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 observe our progress towards our aim to succeed in web zero GHG emissions by 2040.
The LCA stories are publicly out there on cisco.com to offer clear environmental influence details about Cisco merchandise to our prospects, companions, and different stakeholders.
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