As the global focus on climate change continues to gather momentum, IT professionals have a unique opportunity to lessen negative environmental impact on our planet through a thoughtful application of technology. As a company, Cisco has been setting and achieving goals to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions since 2008, and within Cisco IT we have mirrored these efforts with many of our own initiatives such as recycling old equipment, optimizing our workplace, and looking at ways to make our data centres greener.
When Cisco announced its commitment to net zero in September 2021, we wanted to approach the activities within Cisco IT more systematically — both to ensure we prioritized the areas that would have the biggest impact and to align with the company’s strategy to reach net zero. To do this, we went through a three-step process to create our own Cisco IT Sustainability Framework, resulting in a living document. While our journey will change and evolve, we are excited to share how we have gotten started.
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