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 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 stories are publicly accessible on cisco.com to supply clear environmental affect details about Cisco merchandise to our clients, 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 clients visibility into the environmental affect of the merchandise they buy from Cisco
- Supporting clients in calculating the general environmental affect 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 the best way to deal with these excessive affect areas
- Addressing product ecolabel necessities
- Utilizing the findings to implement finest practices in Cisco’s Round Design Ideas.
Our group within the Cisco Chief Sustainability Workplace is partnering with colleagues in Cisco’s Provide Chain group and product enterprise items to provide these stories. We plan to proceed to publish the stories on cisco.com as they develop into accessible.
Our hope is that the LCAs illustrate a product’s affect on the atmosphere, offering useful insights to assist Cisco groups design merchandise with sustainability in thoughts and improve visibility on product environmental impacts for Cisco and our clients.
Whereas many expertise corporations publish LCAs, Cisco is likely one of the first to provide them for networking tools, similar to Catalyst switches.
Yow will discover 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 monitor our progress towards our aim to achieve web zero GHG emissions by 2040.
The LCA stories are publicly accessible on cisco.com to supply clear environmental affect details about Cisco merchandise to our clients, companions, and different stakeholders.
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