Cisco releases 2022 Goal Report, highlighting progress on ESG targets

I’m joyful to announce that at present Cisco launched its annual Goal Report.

The 2022 Cisco Goal Report describes our targets, progress, and influence for the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) matters which are important to attaining our objective to Energy an Inclusive Future for All, and which are necessary for our stakeholders.

The theme of this 12 months’s report is “Goal Personified,” and in it we spotlight among the individuals who have introduced our objective to life in our final fiscal 12 months.

For instance, you’ll meet J.J. Cummings, who helped determine and stop cyberattacks in opposition to Ukrainian residents and infrastructure after Russia invaded the nation. You’ll study from Beth Kochuparambil how the Cisco Widespread {Hardware} Group is growing concepts for vitality effectivity and lowering the ability wants of our merchandise. And you may be impressed by folks like Katherine Lucey, who based the nonprofit Photo voltaic Sister (a Cisco Basis grantee) to supply sustainable and reasonably priced vitality providers and merchandise to individuals who lack electrical energy around the globe.

Within the Goal Report additionally, you will study our progress from our final fiscal 12 months, which led to July 2022. For instance:

We achieved a 60% enhance in illustration of all workers who self-identify as African American/Black (AA/B) from entry stage by way of supervisor (FY20 base 12 months)
Cisco and the Cisco Basis Contributed US$494 million in money and in-kind contributions to group packages, together with US$377 million in in-kind contributions for Cisco Networking Academy
Cisco Networking Academy reached 3.2 million college students in FY22, bringing the full variety of college students to 17.5 million worldwide because the program started in 1997
The Science Based mostly Targets Initiative (SBTi) validated our aim to achieve internet zero greenhouse fuel emissions throughout our worth chain by 2040
We had been #1 within the Gartner Provide Chain High 25 for the third 12 months in a row

Cisco has an extended historical past of setting and attaining ESG targets. We printed our first public report on these matters in 2005, and proceed to take action yearly to supply our clients, workers, buyers, and others a transparent image of our progress, influence, challenges and learnings.

Along with the Goal Report, our ESG Reporting Hub contains in-depth info on all of the matters within the report.

I invite you to discover these supplies and remark under with any questions or observations.