Sustaining Sustainability: Drones in sustainability
As organizations increasingly embrace sustainability and ESG to achieve their long-term sustainability goals, EY helps them take the right steps in this direction. As part of our ‘Sustaining Sustainability’ podcast series, we examine how technology and innovation are playing a key role in advancing the sustainability agenda, and how it can be furthered in the coming years.
In the second episode of our Sustaining Sustainability podcast series, Arun Nagarajan, Partner, Digital Consulting, EY India, who also leads our Drone Center of Excellence, explaining the various ways in which drones are being used to develop sustainable and cost-effective practices, and the potential of drones in India in the coming years.
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Key takeaways
- Drones can advance sustainability by providing access to more data from specific or large areas
- Precision agriculture is a rapidly evolving field where drones help optimize the use of fertilizers and pesticides
- Drones can also play an important role in gathering data from hazardous environments, such as mining and in monitoring and controlling air pollution.
- Some countries already use drones for faster and more cost-effective reforestation.
There is a two-folds increase in drone related start-ups that focus on the agriculture sector in India since the government announced Kisan Drones and Drone Shakti initiatives in February 2022.
Over the last 24 months, there has been a significant focus on manufacturing drones in India and adopting their technology across public and private companies so that it can be used to drive the push toward more sustainability and cost-effective practices.
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Presenters
Arun Nagarajan
EY India Digital and Emerging Technologies PartnerPodcast
Duration 13m 38s
