Cisco announces participation as IT services provider at COP27

Cisco announces participation as IT services provider at COP27

- Cisco's support for COP27 builds on it’s innovations and commitment to sustainability and reaching net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2040

- Memorandum of Understanding signed with General Coordinator for COP27

Dubai, United Arab Emirates – Egypt’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cisco today announced the company’s role as IT Services Provider of the 27th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27). Cisco, among others, will provide professional and technical services to design, implement and support the wireless network infrastructure at COP27 to enable highly secure connectivity for all attendees and the host nation.

The announcement was made following the ceremonial signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between Assistant Foreign Minister Ambassador Achraf Ibrahim, General Coordinator for COP27, and Ayman Elgohary, Managing Director for Egypt, North Africa, and Levant at Cisco.

Cisco's support for COP27 builds on the company’s innovations and commitment to sustainability. For more than 15 years, Cisco has worked towards a sustainable future by focusing on renewable energy, the energy efficiency of our products and a circular economy. It sets clear, ambitious, public goals against which it measures and reports progress such as the commitment to reach net zero, for all scopes of greenhouse gas emissions by 2040.

Ambassador Achraf Ibrahim,