Sustainability

On Tuesday of this week, both CDP and Corporate Knights announced the results of their 2018 assessment of thousands of global companies in the areas of climate change and the broader topic of sustainability.

Employees across Cisco spent Green Week participating in local, environmentally-friendly activities to reduce their carbon footprints.

By engaging diverse stakeholders, sharing best practices, and challenging our employees, our future employees, and entrepreneurs to step up, we can all be global problem solvers for a more sustainable planet, and a brighter future for all.

We know that meaningful action is needed if we are going to help bend the curve of emission reductions towards 2020. Learn more about our supply chain efforts in FY19 and beyond.

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.

Embracing the natural problem solver in all of us, how can we create a culture of innovation that can change the world?

Business sustainability is an area ripe for sweeping, cross-industry innovation.

Last month, employees around the world came together to celebrate Earth Day throughout April as part of Cisco’s “Earth Aware” campaign.