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 levels of a product’s life cycle utilizing a list of related environmental inputs.
The LCA studies are publicly obtainable on cisco.com to offer clear environmental impression 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 studies present many advantages, together with:
- Giving clients visibility into the environmental impression of the merchandise they buy from Cisco
- Supporting clients 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 power consumption, optimize useful resource use and scale back waste
- Enabling Cisco to establish component-level hotspots and assist prioritize how you can tackle these excessive impression areas
- Addressing product ecolabel necessities
- Utilizing the findings to implement finest 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 supply 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 impression on the setting, offering priceless insights to assist Cisco groups design merchandise with sustainability in thoughts and enhance visibility on product environmental impacts for Cisco and our clients.
Whereas many know-how corporations publish LCAs, Cisco is without doubt one of the first to supply them for networking gear, similar 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 observe our progress towards our objective to succeed in web zero GHG emissions by 2040.
The LCA studies are publicly obtainable on cisco.com to offer clear environmental impression details about Cisco merchandise to our clients, companions, and different stakeholders.
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