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“ When you have a very dynamic regulatory environment, you’ ve got to really think about sustainability data,” she says.“ It’ s becoming really important not only in terms of how we develop our own strategy but to a whole host of stakeholders all the way from our customers to our investors, from governmental entities to partners.”

Cisco uses its sustainability data to empower its engineers to make the right design decisions for not only sustainability, but circularity. This ensures that Cisco supports sustainability activities and commitments.

Mary is Cisco’ s first CSO and says that, on the Cisco Chief Sustainability Office’ s creation, a core focus was – and remains on – uniting leaders across the company. This builds out Cisco’ s Sustainability Data Foundation, which Mary describes as a bespoke end-to-end platform that provides a single source of truth for all sustainability product data.

“ It allows us to connect a variety of complex data sets using cutting edge predictive modelling that will allow us to understand and navigate our own sustainability journey, but work with our customers, our partners and suppliers to do the same thing,” Mary underscores.“ It’ s already integrating 25 different applications and tools and it’ s designed on an architecture that ensures that this information can be validated.” sustainabilitymag. com 107