Publicly available life cycle assessments document our products’ environmental impact

[ad_1] 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 reviews are publicly out there on cisco.com to offer 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 reviews 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 scale back waste Enabling Cisco to establish component-level hotspots and assist prioritize easy methods to deal with these excessive affect 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 items to supply these reviews. We plan to proceed to publish the reviews on cisco.com as they change into out there.

Our hope is that the LCAs illustrate a product’s affect on the atmosphere, offering invaluable 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 supply them for networking gear, akin to Catalyst switches.

Yow will discover details about our LCA methodology in our printed 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 aim to succeed in internet zero GHG emissions by 2040.

The LCA reviews are publicly out there on cisco.com to offer clear environmental affect details about Cisco merchandise to our clients, companions, and different stakeholders.