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 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 studies are publicly obtainable 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 studies 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 determine component-level hotspots and assist prioritize tackle 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 models to provide these studies. We plan to proceed to publish the studies on cisco.com as they turn out to be obtainable.
Our hope is that the LCAs illustrate a product’s affect on the surroundings, offering precious 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 know-how corporations publish LCAs, Cisco is without doubt one of the first to provide them for networking tools, akin to Catalyst switches.
You’ll find 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 observe our progress towards our purpose to succeed in internet zero GHG emissions by 2040.
The LCA studies are publicly obtainable on cisco.com to supply clear environmental affect details about Cisco merchandise to our clients, companions, and different stakeholders.
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