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Darrel Stickler

Sustainable Business Practices

Corporate Affairs

Darrel has more than 20 years experience in engineering, manufacturing, enterprise software, and joint venture development, in the diverse fields of commercial nuclear power, semiconductor wafer fabrication, personal computers and, at Cisco, network solutions. At Cisco, Darrel currently works in the Sustainable Business Practices group, which authors Cisco's annual Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) report, responds to stakeholder CSR inquiries, performs Cisco's CSR stakeholder analysis, and maintains membership in key CSR-related industry groups. Cisco groups employee, social, corporate governance and environmental programs under CSR.

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Corporate Knights and CDP Announce Global Sustainability Leaders

Earlier this week, both CDP and Corporate Knights announced the results of their 2020 assessment of thousands of global companies in the areas of climate change (CDP) and the broader topic of sustainability (Corporate Knights). At the 2020 World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos Switzerland Corporate Kn…

Live from Davos: CDP and Corporate Knights Highlight Global Sustainability Leaders

On Tuesday of this week, both CDP and Corporate Knights announced the results of their 2018 assessment of thousands of global companies in the areas of climate change (CDP) and the broader topic of sustainability (Corporate Knights). Corporate Knights has historically used the World Economic Forum a…

Cisco Announces New Greenhouse Gas Reduction Goals

In FY17, which ended in July, we completed and met our latest greenhouse gas (GHG) Scope 1 and 2 reduction goal. To recap, Cisco’s past Scope 1 and 2 reduction goals include: June 2008: Five-year EPA Climate Leaders commitment to reduce all Scope 1 and 2 GHG emissions worldwide by 25% absolut…

Three Ways to Make Virtual Connections Count for Business and the Planet

This article also appears on Sustainable Brands. Authors: Paul Dickinson, Executive Chair, CDP Heidi Rhodes, Workforce Experience Specialist, Digital Transformation Group, Cisco Darrel Stickler, Global Environment Lead, Corporate Affairs, Cisco Since the introduction of Cisco Telepresence in Octo…

Cisco Tops CDP Carbon Rankings

Over the last month, CDP (Carbon Disclosure Project) has released its assessments of how publicly traded companies around the world scored on the CDP’s 2014 Climate Change Information Request. I think 2014 marks a dozen years that CDP has been moving the needle on greenhouse gas (GHG) emission repor…

Earth Day 2014: Time for Hope (and Frustration)

If you’re into sustainability, Earth Day can be a bit like New Year’s Day. A time to reflect. A time of hope. Maybe a bit of frustration with things not yet completed. But impatience can grease the wheels of change… A time of hope. Today, sustainability isn’t just the provinc…

Cisco Tops CDP Global and U.S. Carbon Rankings

Yesterday, CDP (Carbon Disclosure Project) released its assessment of how companies in the S&P 500 did on CDP’s 2013 carbon investor questionnaire. About a week ago, CDP released a similar assessment for the Global 500, the 500 largest companies by market capitalization on the FTSE Global…

Cisco Announces New Greenhouse Gas Reduction Goals

In our fiscal year 2012, which ended in July, Cisco completed and met our latest greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction goal.  To recap our past goals: September 2006: Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) commitment to reduce GHG emissions from all Cisco business air travel worldwide by 10% absolute (FY06 basel…

Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reporting: How Cisco Encourages Suppliers to Take the First Step

Yesterday, I attended the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) annual Supply Chain Members Roundtable. Cisco has hosted this meeting for several years using Cisco TelePresence rooms in our offices, this year in London, New York City, São Paulo, and San Francisco, with AT&T attending from their own Ci…