--- title: Striving for Sustainability: Meet Mike King | daily.dev description: Mike King, who leads Carbon Accounting and Analytics at Cisco, discusses how his engineering background shapes his approach to sustainability as a systems... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/striving-for-sustainability-meet-mike-king-c2eqpahl8 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Striving for Sustainability: Meet Mike King | daily.dev og:description: Mike King, who leads Carbon Accounting and Analytics at Cisco, discusses how his engineering background shapes his approach to sustainability as a systems... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/striving-for-sustainability-meet-mike-king-c2eqpahl8 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/c2eqPaHL8.png og:image:alt: Striving for Sustainability: Meet Mike King og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Striving for Sustainability: Meet Mike King **[Cisco](https://daily.dev/sources/cisco)** · 5 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Mike King, who leads Carbon Accounting and Analytics at Cisco, discusses how his engineering background shapes his approach to sustainability as a systems problem. He emphasizes the critical role of high-quality data in making sustainability efforts credible and actionable, highlighting Cisco's Sustainability Data Foundation. King explains how Life Cycle Assessments (LCAs) help identify environmental hotspots across product lifecycles, enabling better design decisions and material choices. He addresses balancing AI and digitalization demands with energy efficiency, noting that machine learning can optimize energy use in buildings and facilities. The greatest business value comes from embedding sustainability into everyday decisions, creating benefits through smarter material choices upstream and helping customers achieve emissions reduction targets downstream. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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