The aviation industry is expanding rapidly, making it imperative to adopt sustainable practices. Airports worldwide are taking significant measures to reduce their carbon footprint, conserve natural resources and encourage social responsibility but still more needs to be done.

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What’s inside

1. Establishing the need for sustainability
2. Several areas of impact: not just carbon emissions
3. Top areas to focus
4. New initiatives to optimize footprint

The need for sustainable airports

The aviation industry contributes to global carbon emissions, with airports accounting for about 2-3% of that contribution. While this is not very significant and airports are committing to Net-zero, they impact the environment in many other ways. Airports consume significant amounts of energy and water and generate waste equivalent to small cities and contribute significantly to noise pollution leading to health disorders in the neighbourhood. Airports also promote economic growth through trade, tourism, job opportunities, support for local businesses, and regional development and hence a sustainable balance is the need of the hour.

Areas to focus for maximum impact

Airports around the world are recognizing the importance of sustainability and are implementing various eco-friendly initiatives to reduce their ecological footprint. Four key areas of focus have emerged: energy, waste, water, and noise. Some leading airports have already implemented sustainable initiatives, such as using recycled materials for construction and mandating the use of reusable tableware in food and beverage establishments. Emerging ideas include hydrogen fuel cells and bio fuels (for energy), AI and IOT Sensors for optimal water usage, hydrothermal liquefaction and AI/ML to detect recyclables for waste and AR safety programs and Noise insulation techniques for Noise impact reduction. Others need to assess their current state and take steps that best suit their situation. Download Complete Research

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Author@lab45: Deepika Maurya

Technology both improves and harms environmental sustainability. It’s is a double edged sword. While emerging technologies such as Al, loT, AR/ VR and others are being used to help achieve sustainability goals, these technologies when put into mainstream adoption will leave a hefty environmental footprint.

What's inside

1. The urgent need for sustainable technology
2. A framework for sustainable technology in datacenters
3. Implementing our sustainable technology framework
4. Sustainable technology maturity model
5. Bringing it all together

The urgent need for sustainable technology

If we continue on our current trajectory, datacenters will leave a huge footprint on our planet. Data centers contribution to Co2 Emissions will go up 12X by 2030 and their consumption of water will go up 17X in the same time. Needless to say, they will be huge contributors to E-waste in landfills.

A framework for sustainable technology in data centers

We have developed a framework based on the IT lifecycle consisting of a stack of building blocks. We believe this framework will help facilitate a comprehensive and structured implementation of a Sustainability strategy within the data center.It is quite intuitive and easy to identify potential actions that can be taken and what their impact would be. Download Complete Research

Implementing our sustainable technology framework

As organizations move with sustainable strategies, we highlight key insights that will help drive these strategies. We also identify metrics that can be used to measure progress.

The maturity model

We have painstakingly built a 5-level maturity model that can be used as a guideline to assess where the organization stands. We also give insights on what would be required to move to the next level.

Bringing it all together

We finally put this all together to see how organizations should approach their Sustainability journey.

Credits
Author@lab45: Hussain S Nayak, Sujay Shivram, Chandan Jha
Author@Wipro: Susan Kenniston

Foundational for identity verification and rights access, government-issued IDs face breaches and inefficiency within centralized systems. Enter Decentralized Identity solutions, redistributing verification control to individuals. But is it applicable for equally for all government services?

What's inside

1. Decentralized vs Centralized ID for governments
2. Identity credential issuing process today
3. Suitability of government functions to Decentralized Identity
4. Long term outcomes

Decentralized vs Centralized ID for governments

Decentralization of government-issued IDs is a complex issue with potential benefits and drawbacks. Whether government issued Ids should be decentralized or not depends on various factors that we delineate. Any decision on decentralization should be carefully considered and implemented with caution to ensure that they do not breach security or undermine the government’s programs. Download Complete Research

Identity credential issuing process today

We detail out the current Issuing process typically followed by governments today and identify several challenges and issues that face it today. This includes Ids like the Passport, Licenses, Voter cards and Social security cards. All of them are critical and everyone can do with an easier and more fool proof process for the same.

Suitability of government functions to decentralization

We evaluate the different government functions such as Education, healthcare, elections, security, taxation, etc and analyze which of these would be most suitable to be decentralized. We map them on a matrix of Complexity & Coordination and the Need for scrutiny to give us an easy framework for assessment. Download Complete Research

Long term outcomes

We end by considering the long term onjectives and intended outcomes of such an exercise.We feel that Decentralized Identity solutions can rebuild trust in public institutions by empowering residents with data control.

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Author@lab45: Sujay Shivram, Abhigyan Malik