Cisco’s environmental sustainability strategy, The Plan for Possible, has three key priorities:
Priority 1: Support Clean Energy Growth
To meet rising electricity demand, the world needs smarter, more efficient infrastructure. We adopt clean energy in our operations, and our products and solutions can improve energy efficiency and help digitize and secure the grid.
Priority 2: Evolve the Business to Circular
We design products and packaging with circularity in mind, which extends the product life cycle through reuse, remanufacturing, and recycling — helping our customers capture more value.
Priority 3: Invest in Resilient Ecosystems
We work to minimize our impact on ecosystems by managing water responsibly in our operations and supply chain, and the Cisco Foundation has committed US$100 million over 10 years to support climate technologies and solutions.
Environmental Targets and Goals
Cisco has a goal to reach net-zero greenhouse gas emissions across our value chain by 2040 by prioritizing reductions across all scopes of emissions. Cisco's net-zero goal was approved by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) under its Corporate Net-Zero Standard in 2022. Cisco’s environmental sustainability goals and progress (including our SBTi near- and long-term targets) can be found on the Goals and Progress page.
Visit our Data and Assurance page for historical energy and emissions data.
Environmental Data Management
To support Cisco’s environmental sustainability reporting, we developed the award-winning Sustainability Data Foundation (SDF) platform. SDF consolidates, analyzes, and integrates data from different sources, enabling predictive modeling and informed decision-making across our value chain and for our customers and partners.