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 under 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 accessible on cisco.com to supply clear environmental influence 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 influence of the merchandise they buy from Cisco
- Supporting clients in calculating the general environmental influence 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 scale back waste
- Enabling Cisco to establish component-level hotspots and assist prioritize the right way to handle these excessive influence areas
- Addressing product ecolabel necessities
- Utilizing the findings to implement greatest practices in Cisco’s Round Design Rules.
Our group 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 out to be accessible.
Our hope is that the LCAs illustrate a product’s influence on the setting, offering helpful 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 firms publish LCAs, Cisco is likely one of the first to provide them for networking tools, akin to Catalyst switches.
Yow will discover details about our LCA methodology in our revealed 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 objective to achieve web zero GHG emissions by 2040.
The LCA studies are publicly accessible on cisco.com to supply clear environmental influence details about Cisco merchandise to our clients, companions, and different stakeholders.
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