Proceedings of the Global Sustainability Conference GSC 2021

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Editors of the Proceedings Geetha GanesanPresident and CEOAdvanced Computing Research SocietyChennai, Tamilnadu, India.geetha@advancedcomputingresearchsociety.orgAgamutu PariatambyProfessor Sunway UniversityMalaysiaagamutup@sunway.edu.myEashwar SDirector – TechnicalBonfils Automation Technologies Private Ltd.,Chennai, Tamilnadu, India.eashwar@advancedcomputingresearchsociety.org Preface We are honoured and glad to welcome you at the Global Sustainability Conference 2021 organized by Advanced Computing Research Society on 19th April 2021. Initially, this conference was planned to be held in Thailand. Later on, due to the covid-19 pandemic situation and travel restrictions imposed by various Governments, the options available was to either postpone, cancel or conduct in virtual mode. Postponement was too unsure, since it’s not clear when normalcy will be restored, conducive for physical conference. Cancellation of the conference will upset and disappoint people who have contributed to the conference. Hence the committee decided to go for online mode on the same dates as planned earlier. The organizers hosted the conference from Chennai, India. By meeting virtually, the conference incorporated 8 SDGs – SDG 3,4,5,6,8,10,16,17.This conference and these proceedings are a unique opportunity for sharing ideas and achievements, discoveries and innovation for growing together our knowledge and contribute to expand the knowledge of humanity. The technological areas addressed in this meeting is in response to United Nations call of action to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure that all people enjoy peace and prosperity by 2030.The conference covers topics on the interdisciplinary areas of agriculture and food security, biodiversity conservation, circular economy, cities and urbanisation, climate change in holistic context, development, economy, ecosystem services, ecological protection, education, energy, environmental development, environmental law, finance, gender equality, green infrastructure, health and environment, human population, industrialization, innovation, land cover and land use change, natural capital, natural resources conservation and management, pollution, poverty, social and cultural, supply chain, waste, water–energy–food and water-soil-waste connections and others, all as related to sustainability.We received 52 papers and after peer review 17 papers were accepted and presented in this conference. The papers were evaluated on the basis of completeness, relevance to the conference, originality, sufficiently novel, technical quality, structure and presentation of the paper and adequate references to previous work. Every paper was reviewed by at least 2 reviewers and the review comments were shared with the authors for incorporating the suggestions and comments.The conference had participation from various countries – India, China, Thailand, Australia, Jordan, South Africa, Nigeria, Uzbekistan and Malaysia. Total number of participants were 47. It was also calculated that the total savings of CO2e is approximately 40000kgs as the conference was held in virtual mode.On the day of the conference, all the presenters were able to present online and the sessions were held smoothly as per the schedule. 17 papers were presented in 2 sessions. Each presenter was given 15 minutes for presentation, followed by question-and-answer session. A networking session was also arranged, which enabled the participants to interact, learn and network with each other. The conference platform “REMO”, which we hired was appreciated by all the participants due to the interactive and networking feature.We are thankful to the IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science and its editor for accepting our proposal, for providing valuable guidance and for publishing this conference proceedings. We thank all the Committee members for their valuable inputs and time, for making this conference very successful. We thank all the authors and presenters for disseminating their research outcomes through this conference. We appreciate each and everyone who have made this conference meaningful.List of Committees, Conference General Chair, Steering Committee, Financial Committee, Technical Committee are available in the pdf.