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 fuel (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 reviews are publicly obtainable on cisco.com to offer 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 reviews 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 selections by figuring out alternatives to scale back vitality consumption, optimize useful resource use and scale back waste
- Enabling Cisco to establish component-level hotspots and assist prioritize how one can handle these excessive influence areas
- Addressing product ecolabel necessities
- Utilizing the findings to implement finest 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 reviews. We plan to proceed to publish the reviews on cisco.com as they develop into obtainable.
Our hope is that the LCAs illustrate a product’s influence on the setting, 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 firms publish LCAs, Cisco is without doubt one of the first to provide them for networking tools, akin to Catalyst switches.
You could find details about our LCA methodology in our revealed reviews. 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 reviews are publicly obtainable on cisco.com to offer clear environmental influence details about Cisco merchandise to our clients, companions, and different stakeholders.
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