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 impression related to its manufacturing, transport, use, and end-of-life. An LCA takes a number of environmental impression classes into consideration, together with greenhouse gasoline (GHG) emissions, water consumption, useful resource depletion and others, and evaluates all phases of a product’s life cycle utilizing a listing of related environmental inputs.
The LCA studies are publicly out there on cisco.com to supply clear environmental impression 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 impression of the merchandise they buy from Cisco
- Supporting prospects in calculating the general environmental impression and GHG emissions of their IT infrastructure
- Informing Cisco product design choices by figuring out alternatives to scale back vitality consumption, optimize useful resource use and cut back waste
- Enabling Cisco to establish component-level hotspots and assist prioritize deal with these excessive impression areas
- Addressing product ecolabel necessities
- Utilizing the findings to implement finest practices in Cisco’s Round Design Rules.
Our staff within the Cisco Chief Sustainability Workplace is partnering with colleagues in Cisco’s Provide Chain group and product enterprise models to provide these studies. We plan to proceed to publish the studies on cisco.com as they turn into out there.
Our hope is that the LCAs illustrate a product’s impression 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 expertise corporations publish LCAs, Cisco is likely one of the first to provide them for networking gear, akin to Catalyst switches.
You’ll find 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 purpose to achieve web zero GHG emissions by 2040.
The LCA studies are publicly out there on cisco.com to supply clear environmental impression details about Cisco merchandise to our prospects, companions, and different stakeholders.
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