Data-driven sustainability with AWS (SUS201)

Overview of Sustainability Trends and Data Challenges

  • Sustainability has become a strategic imperative for organizations, but companies are lacking in effectively utilizing sustainability data to drive their sustainability strategies.
  • Key challenges include:
    • Siloed data sets and manual spreadsheets leading to quality gaps and inconsistencies
    • Limited insights due to missing context and difficulty synthesizing the full picture
    • Difficulty in connecting sustainability data to drive change and impact the bottom line or product innovation

AWS Sustainability Data Fabric

  • AWS provides a Sustainability Data Fabric solution framework to help organizations integrate and manage sustainability data:
    • Collect and connect data from diverse sources
    • Purpose-built data management capabilities for sustainability (e.g., quality checks, cataloging, processing)
    • Integration with other systems and AWS services
    • Flexibility and extensibility to add more use cases over time

Role of AI in Sustainability

  • AWS provides AI-driven capabilities to help with:
    • Visualization and natural language generation to tell a stronger sustainability story
    • Productivity improvements by automating data collection and insight generation
    • Innovation by using AI to assist in decision-making and product development

Cargill Ocean Transportation's Journey

  • Cargill Ocean Transportation, a leading freight trading organization, is on a journey to decarbonize its operations by 2050.
  • Key elements of their approach:
    • Defined clear goals and a path to achieve them, investigating new technologies
    • Implemented data-driven decision making, leveraging energy efficiency and carbon intensity data
    • Automated processes to reduce manual effort and improve data quality and frequency
    • Developed an AI chatbot to provide self-service access to sustainability data
    • Achieved 5x faster data-driven decision making, 80%+ automation, and 60% cost reduction

Recommendations and Next Steps

  • Identify high-impact opportunities to leverage AI and other technologies
  • Measure the impact and maximize ROI of sustainability initiatives
  • Invest in educating and training teams on sustainability and technology capabilities
  • Engage with your AWS account team to explore a deeper dive on how to integrate sustainability into your existing projects and priorities.

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