Information technology has the power to transform how the world approaches environmental challenges. Cisco sees the Internet and networking technology at the heart of a global technological ecosystem where people and businesses can begin to work, live, play, and learn in new and more sustainable ways.
Connections Enabled By Network Technology
Cisco envisions the network as the basis to connect:
Devices to measure, monitor and manage energy consumption
People without the need for travel
Ideas generated by people and organizations to help overcome social problems
Information technology systems to conserve energy and natural resources through virtualization strategies
Under the direction set by the Cisco EcoBoard, our approach to environmental sustainability is to:
Affect how we operate as a company
Create efficiencies and innovations in our products
Provide environmentally conscious solutions to our customers
Collaborate with customers, industry groups, governments, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and employees to address global environmental issues
Cisco’s Sustainable Operations
Managing Our Environmental Impacts
Network technologies are central to our strategy for addressing the environmental impacts of our operations and our customers' operations.
Minimizing Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Cisco’s approach to minimizing GHG emissions spans three categories of activity: network-enabled solutions, efficient products and sustainable operations. To learn more about how we minimize GHGs in our operations, see page C31 of the Cisco’s 2009 CSR Report
Reducing Waste
Cisco is minimizing the waste output of our operations, our products, and our packaging. See page C53 of Cisco’s 2009 CSR Report to learn more about how we minimize operational wastes.
Value Chain Social Responsibility
Learn about what we are doing to create products that are sourced, manufactured, and sold in an environmentally and socially responsible manner.
Smart+Connected Communities
See how Cisco is transforming physical communities to connected comunities to help achieve economic, social and environmental sutainability.
Sustainable Cities: Connected Urban Development
Born from Cisco’s commitment to the Clinton Global Initiative to help reduce carbon emissions, Connected Urban Development demonstrates how ICT can help reduce carbon emissions and improve efficiency of urban infrastructures.
Planetary Skin
A Cisco and NASA collaboration to develop an online collaborative global monitoring platform, that will capture, collect, analyze and report data on environmental conditions around the world.
