Metaverse for a Greener Globe: Building a Better World Together

By Vishakha Thakur

The metaverse is a simulated world in which people can share their experiences and engage in real time. The metaverse holds the promise of significant reductions in carbon emissions, whether through the replacement of physical goods with digital ones, the replacement of real-world presence with virtual interactions, or digital twins that will aid in the optimization of the physical world from the planet to individual humans. The immersive nature of metaverse experiences may also aid in breaking down behavioural obstacles to climate action.

What environmental benefits does Metaverse offer?

The primary environmental benefit is that it will drastically reduce the need for most human activities like travel, perhaps leading to less traffic, safer roads, lower fuel consumption, lower pollution, and thus lower global warming. To save time and even money, it would be better to hold seminars or business conferences in the virtual world rather than the physical world.

• Eliminates the need for intermediaries, manual mediation, and arbitration, avoiding power concentration and lowering costs.
• Ensures the highest level of governance by reinforcing reliability and traceability.
• Provides smart contracts and transactions that are safe, trusted, and secure.
• Lowers the possibility of corruption and manipulation.

How will metaverse deliver greatest sustainability benefits?

The use of autonomous or remote-controlled robots that can be deployed, controlled, and/or monitored virtually to aid in tasks such as manufacturing, surveillance, rearranging assets in facilities, loading, storage and retrieval, packing, and more is referred to as robotics. Companies can expedite processes and increase human oversight and intervention capabilities by deploying, monitoring, and controlling operational robots in virtual environments.

Employee Onboarding & Training

Use of immersive digital worlds in enterprise-level HR, onboarding, and training procedures for topics such as customer service training, general safety training, and company-wide initiatives on sustainability and diversity, equity, and inclusion are examples of virtual offices and workspaces. The metaverse also allows for the creation of more collaborative and immersive workspaces.

Lowering Potential Emissions

It is also feasible that emissions in other aspects of life will be mitigated by the metaverse. For example, by holding concerts in virtual venues, environmental expenses associated with travel, particularly air travel can be reduced. Commuting emissions will be reduced as office premises are also expected to be housed in the metaverse. This will lower net emissions and consequently the metaverse’s overall environmental impact.

Autonomous Robotics

They conduct predictive maintenance and deploy specialized aid to remote sites to help machinery last longer. There are also health and safety benefits for workers, such as avoiding risky and demanding conditions and having better access to training and professional support.

The extent to which the metaverse will take over our life is unknown. However, with a growing emphasis on sustainability in the tech sector, individuals advocating for the metaverse should consider the environmental impact.

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