Everything But the Cocktail Party:  COP15 and Cisco TelePresence

One of the inconvenient ironies of hammering out a global climate change accord is that assembling delegates from 192 countries in close  physical proximity tends to spew thousands of metric  tons of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. But that face-to-face …Read more.

Posted by Irene Sandler on October 29, 2009 at 06:10AM

ITU 2009: John Chambers - Opening Plenary

John Chambers, Chairman and CEO, Cisco Systems, discusses the role of the Public Sector & Economic Recovery at the Opening Plenary - ITU Geneva. ITU 2009 is bringing together hundreds of exhibitors from more than 40 countries with more 20,000 …Read more.

Posted by Doug Webster on October 06, 2009 at 11:54AM

Cisco at ITU 2009: Connect. Collaborate. Create.

It hardly seems like it’s been three years since the last ITU Telecom World event, but I’m not sure any other three year period has had the impact on the global economic landscape that we’ve all experienced recently. At Cisco, …Read more.

Posted by Doug Webster on September 24, 2009 at 10:29AM

EU and US Rapprochement on Climate Change

I have just returned from Washington D.C., and it is refreshing to see an era of closer cooperation between the U.S. and Europe, not to mention the rest of the world, on climate change. As the U.S. delayed meaningful action …Read more.

Posted by Monique Meche on July 21, 2009 at 08:44AM

US Should Lead in Climate Change Policy

Late last Friday, the U.S. House of Representatives passed comprehensive energy and climate change legislation that would set our country on a path to reduce its emissions to 83% below 2005 levels by 2050, among other things.  If it becomes …Read more.

Posted by Laura Ipsen on July 01, 2009 at 01:52PM

Technology’s Role in Earth Day

Earlier today, I listened to former President Clinton speak in honor of Earth Day. He was at Fortune Magazine’s Green Brainstorm conference on the importance of upcoming climate change talks (to take place on Copenhagen later this year). He called …Read more.

Posted by Jennifer Greeson on April 22, 2009 at 04:41PM

The Green Backbone for Climate Change

“The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we had when we created them.”  Einstein In the 1990s, we watched the Internet change the standard of living around the world and I’ve always believed …Read more.

Posted by Laura Ipsen on December 05, 2008 at 04:15PM

VIDEO: Connected Urban Development – Global Conference 2008

Connected Urban Development is born from a commitment that Cisco gave to to the Clinton Global Initiative in 2006 to showcase how pervasive broadband connectivity and ICT can help decrease CO2 emissions in large metropolitan areas.  The CUD is a …Read more.

Posted by John Earnhardt on September 24, 2008 at 01:03PM