Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Emissions

Financial institutions are near the center of sustainability solutions and are in a unique position to help accelerate green development. They have tremendous pressure from shareholders, consumers, employees, and regulators to move not only financial services but other industries.

Cisco is establishing a net zero methodology where the estimated GHG emissions from the use of our sold products can be reliably calculated.

SustainX went virtual this year and Paul Hawken joined us to talk about the very real ways we can drawdown carbon emissions and reverse global warming now.

The environmental benefits of working from home are more difficult to calculate than it might first appear. This Earth Day we take a look at why.

Today we are announcing a product power efficiency goal: improve large rack-mounted-equipment system power efficiency from 77% to 87% by 2022 using an FY2016 baseline.

My focus in today’s blog was on Cisco’s internal operations, however, Cisco’s collective sustainability efforts span our operations, our supply chain, our products, and our solutions.

Cisco recently signed two solar power purchase agreements (PPAs) that will collectively deliver 85,000 megawatt-hours of clean, renewable electricity every year to the campus' local electric grid.

Listen to Episode 1 of the Cisco CSR podcast to hear from sustainability experts on Cisco's long-term greenhouse gas emissions reductions goals.

To continue reducing our GHG emissions, in line with recommendations of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, we have set additional Scope 1 and 2 GHG reduction goals