Cisco Green Leadership Vision Ciscos approach of Changing the Way We Work, Live, Play, and Learn extends

to its ability to reduce the effects of the companys operations and products on the environment. Ciscos vision is to combine the power of innovation with collaboration to create the most sustainable model for addressing global climate change. Innovation is at the heart of what Cisco does, and collaboration internally and externally is what fuels its ability to drive new ideas across Cisco and with its customers. Cisco believes that the network can become a green platform for technology to help transform how we manage global environmental challenges. Currently, Cisco is driving environmental initiatives in four key areas: Responsible operations: Working to lessen Ciscos environmental footprint by using power in a more sustainable manner and by reducing the greenhouse gas emissions that result from business operations. Strides are also being made to better manage resources and waste, along with ensuring Ciscos supply chain adheres to the companys environmental and diversity goals. Product stewardship: Commitment to optimizing the functionality, accessibility, and performance of Cisco products while reducing the amount of power they need to operate. Cisco has also instituted strong recovery and recycling programs. Architecture: Developing networking architectures and solutions to enable customers and employees to mitigate their environmental impact and In the future, the achieve their green goals. network will be the key Advocacy: Acting as a catalyst for change with partners in technology enabler to industry, government, and among influencers.

Corporate Initiatives Clinton Global Initiative

When the Clinton Global Initiative approached us, we asked ourselves how technology could help solve one of todays most pressing problems: climate change. We found the answer in innovative urban planning, collaboration technologies, and smart policy. John Chambers, Chairman and CEO

Carbon to Collaboration Launched in 2005, the Clinton Global Initiatives (CGI) mission is to solve global problems that affect the quality of human life. Cisco is a CGI partner as it aligns with the companys strategy to reduce dependency on physical travel by investing in collaboration technologies that help reduce carbon emissions. This is demonstrated by Ciscos commitment to reduce its C02 emissions by 10 percent, primarily through a 20 percent reduction in employee travel. During Fiscal Year 2007, Cisco successfully decoupled its growth in employees and earnings from an increase in carbon emissions due to air travel, which fell 14 percent over the previous year, normalized by sales revenue.

manage, monitor, and better utilize energy and to help achieve more significant greenhouse gas emissions reductions globally. If its connected to the Internet, it can be green. Laura Ipsen, Senior Vice President, Global Policy and Government Affairs

Cisco is also investing $15 million through its Connected Urban Development initiative to create urban communications infrastructures that demonstrate how network connectivity can reduce carbon emissions for cities, countries, and individuals. Connected Urban Development What: In its first phase, Connected Urban Development consists of building partnerships with three pilot citiesAmsterdam, San Francisco, and Seoulto apply information and communications technology to promote innovative practices for reducing CO2. Each of the pilot cities will focus on excelling in one or two key areas. Why: The result will be a blueprint of best practices and methodologies that can be used as a reference by other cities. These blueprints will be replicated to additional cities during the second phase and scaled on a global basis in the third phase. Future: The scope of Connected Urban Development is expected to go beyond the environmental dimension, delivering innovative and sustainable models for urban planning and economic development. CUD recently announced that it will work with four additional cities on specific programs: Birmingham, England; Hamburg, Germany; Lisbon, Portugal; and Madrid, Spain. Cisco EcoBoard The Cisco EcoBoard was formed in the beginning of FY07. Made up of 14 leaders from departments across Cisco, the group has collaboratively developed an innovative corporate green strategy to reduce the companys carbon footprint and deliver ecologically sound products and opportunities to customers. Mission: Impact how we operate as a company Create efficiencies and innovations in our products Provide solutions to customers to address global environmental issues Inspire employees and people around the wolrd to take action Members: The board is chaired by Laura Ipsen, SVP, Global Policy and Government Affairs; John McCool, SVP, GM of Campus Switching Systems Technology Group; and Ron Ricci, VP, Corporate Positioning. In addition, EcoBoard membership includes senior leaders from each functional area within the company. Green Leadership in the Information/Communications (ICT) Industries Cisco believes information and communications technology can play a large role in how the world addresses its environmental challenges. Cisco is innovating in its operations, products, and customer solutions to address environmental issues and is collaborating with employees, customers, partners, and governments to create a sustainable ICT model for addressing climate change. To guide these efforts, Cisco has hired a Vice President of Green Engineering, Paul Marcoux, a founding member of The Green Grid initiative. Cisco has also played a leadership role in the development and consistent application of environmental standards. Cisco Success in Greening its Operations Corporate operations increased renewable energy procurement by 47 million kilowatt-hours per year at its U.S. and U.K. facilities. Roughly 125 TelePresence units were installed in more than 20 countries and almost 60 cities worldwide.

Nearly 75,000 meetings via TelePresence were held at Cisco, reducing the need to travel for thousands of employees, partners and customers. While energy consumption in Cisco operations grew by 5 percent, the companys greenhouse gas emissions fell by 11 percent. Normalized by sales revenue, energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions fell by 14 percent and 27 percent, respectively.

Awards Sustainable Silicon Valley (SSV) recognized Cisco as one of the top 100 Corporate Citizens for 2007. Named in the top 20 of the Best Workplaces for Commuters list by the Best Workplaces for Commuters program, a business-government program. In October 2007, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ranked Cisco the ninth largest Fortune 500 purchaser of renewable energy in the United States. This is a result of Ciscos purchase of 128,204,000 kWh of green power, representing 22 percent of Ciscos total U.S. power. Cisco won the 2007 Flex Your Power Award from PG&E in the state of California in the Overall Energy Efficiency category. Cisco received Waste Reduction Awards (WRAP) honors seven times, most recently in 2006 as a result of recycling 69 percent of companys waste stream. In Southampton, Hampshire, U.K., the "Queen's Awards for Enterprise" recognized Scientific Atlanta's Fibercore Limited (a Cisco company,) honoring Fibercore in the "Sustainable Development" category for implementation of a worldwide cost-effective sustainability program. For More Information To learn more about Ciscos green initiatives, go to http://www.cisco.com/web/about/ac227/ac333/the-environment/index.html