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As knowledge heart and AI utilization surge, so does the necessity for cleaner, extra environment friendly vitality options.
Cisco has lengthy believed that sustainability motion can spur innovation and construct a extra resilient vitality provide.
Since 2008, we’ve set formidable five-year targets to chop our absolute Scope 1 and a couple of emissions, paving the way in which to main milestones this 12 months. In fiscal 2025, we proudly achieved our purpose of decreasing our Scope 1 and Scope 2 GHG emissions by 90%, in comparison with a fiscal 2019 base 12 months.1 As well as, for the primary time in firm historical past, we sourced renewable electrical energy to match 100% of world annual electrical energy wants at Cisco owned and leased amenities.2
Reaching these milestones displays our long-standing dedication to vitality and sustainability — and our momentum forward. We intend to keep at the very least a 90% discount in absolute Scope 1 and a couple of emissions as we work towards our purpose to achieve net-zero GHG emissions by 2040.
Sustainability throughout our direct operations
Cisco was in a position to obtain its formidable Scope 1 and a couple of GHG emissions discount purpose by way of a holistic method throughout our world operations, from driving effectivity to sourcing renewable vitality.
Driving Effectivity and Decarbonization
In fiscal 2025, we carried out 78 vitality effectivity tasks that keep away from roughly 11.5 gigawatt-hours of vitality consumption and 27,200 metric tonne carbon dioxide equal (CO2e) annually by way of our:
- Buildings: Carried out AI and superior analytics to monitor and optimize vitality, airflow, and cooling in our labs
- Electrification: Accomplished our first constructing electrification tasks in San Jose, California and Galway, Eire, with extra underway and deliberate globally
- Fleet: Elevated electrical automobiles in our fleet of leased firm automobiles for our European workers from 11% in fiscal 2019 to 66% in fiscal 2025
As we sit up for fiscal 2026 — the ultimate 12 months of our five-year vitality effectivity funding plan — we intend to proceed investing in renewable vitality, vitality effectivity, and constructing electrification tasks that cut back our emissions.
Sourcing Renewable Vitality
In fiscal 2025, for the primary time ever, Cisco sourced renewable electrical energy to match 100% of world annual electrical energy wants at Cisco owned and leased amenities2 by way of quite a lot of strategies, together with new long-term energy buy agreements in:
- India: Cisco’s Bangalore campus, our largest exterior the US, started receiving energy from a brand new 92 megawatt (MW) photo voltaic and wind era facility. The system is projected to generate roughly 181,400 megawatt-hours (MWh) yearly. We additionally established twin electrical feeds, enabling Cisco to scale back campus diesel gasoline use by roughly 30%.
- Texas: Cisco served because the anchor purchaser for 2 aggregated digital energy buy agreements for 172 MW of photo voltaic. Of the 172 MW, Cisco will procure 100 MW from two new photo voltaic tasks estimated to come back on-line in 2027.
Collectively, these efforts will produce greater than 500,000 MWh of renewable vitality per 12 months, or the vitality wanted to energy roughly 72,000 U.S. houses yearly. They’re a part of our bigger technique so as to add extra renewable vitality sources to the grid, whereas higher matching renewable vitality era with our energy consumption.
In fiscal 2025, we additionally piloted the usage of renewable fuels in our operations. We started utilizing biodiesel in Bangalore for roughly 10% of our backup energy era wants and sourced renewable pure fuel for Cisco websites in the US and United Kingdom.
By creating and renovating areas with sustainability and worker well-being in thoughts, we goal to scale back each our environmental influence and operational prices whereas creating more healthy areas for workers.
On the finish of fiscal 2025, 45 Cisco amenities had earned certifications like Management in Vitality and Environmental Design (LEED®) and the WELL Constructing Customary, with 11 extra underway. These areas now account for 21% of our world actual property portfolio. For instance, our Shanghai workplace achieved LEED® and WELL Platinum certification and is eighteen% extra vitality environment friendly than code.
We’re additionally bringing intelligence into the constructed surroundings. With Cisco Areassensors and Webex endpoints mechanically modify room settings to enhance consolation and save vitality. This good constructing know-how is dwell in our San Francisco and New York places of work.
Supporting Our Suppliers
Decreasing our personal emissions is simply the start; we’re serving to our suppliers do the identical. In fiscal 2025, we met and exceeded our purpose that 80% of Cisco element, manufacturing, and logistics suppliers by spend have a public, absolute GHG emissions discount goal by fiscal 2025 — with 88% having emissions discount targets.
We hosted a net-zero roundtable with suppliers in Thailand, convening enterprise companions, suppliers, and native specialists to deal with challenges like renewable vitality adoption and product carbon footprint calculations.
As well as, we additionally teamed up with two shopper manufacturers to assist suppliers entry clear electrical energy in Asia at extra inexpensive charges. Already, 4 provider websites representing three suppliers have dedicated to buying almost 28 million kilowatt-hours of fresh vitality in 2025, avoiding an estimated 16,717 metric tonnes of CO2e of emissions.
Driving AI-Prepared Infrastructure
In the AI period, we’re regularly innovating to make our merchandise extra environment friendly whereas advancing efficiency and safety. This fiscal 2025, we introduced a number of new merchandise in our switching portfolio that assist convey this stability throughout knowledge facilities and campus networks.
Introducing the N9300 Collection Sensible Switches
The N9300 Collection Sensible Switches mix clever networking silicon and knowledge processing items, which assist to simplify knowledge heart infrastructure and make it extra environment friendly. The Sensible Switches function two processing engines that collectively intelligently steer visitors to drive enhanced capabilities, optimum efficiency, lowered vitality consumption, and operational simplicity.
The N9300 sequence is powered by the Cisco Silicon One processing chip, our unified structure for a number of community roles and units. This innovation delivers switching and safety merchandise which can be extra environment friendly, decreasing operational prices whereas growing capability. The Silicon One unified structure has already supported the event of a broad portfolio of routing and switching units, with extra in progress.
Delivering Affect Via Our Merchandise
A number of extra merchandise throughout our enterprise switching, enterprise routing, and knowledge heart networking portfolios acquired ENERGY STAR® certifications. This designation helps clients extra simply issue vitality effectivity into their buying choices.
Study extra about how we’re driving vitality effectivity in our merchandise on the Function Reporting Hub.
At Cisco, our Function is core to who we’re and what we do. Study extra about our objectives and progress so far in our Function Reporting Hub.
