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Review
. 2023 Dec;30(60):124488-124519.
doi: 10.1007/s11356-022-20024-4. Epub 2022 Apr 9.

Recent advances in green technology and Industrial Revolution 4.0 for a sustainable future

Pragya Bradu  1 , Antara Biswas  1 , Chandralekha Nair  1 , Salini Sreevalsakumar  1 , Megha Patil  1 , Sandra Kannampuzha  1 , Anirban Goutam Mukherjee  1 , Uddesh Ramesh Wanjari  1 , Kaviyarasi Renu  1   2 , Balachandar Vellingiri  3 , Abilash Valsala Gopalakrishnan  4
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Recent advances in green technology and Industrial Revolution 4.0 for a sustainable future

Pragya Bradu et al. Environ Sci Pollut Res Int. 2023 Dec.

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Abstract

This review gives concise information on green technology (GT) and Industrial Revolution 4.0 (IR 4.0). Climate change has begun showing its impacts on the environment, and the change is real. The devastating COVID-19 pandemic has negatively affected lives and the world from the deadly consequences at a social, economic, and environmental level. In order to balance this crisis, there is a need to transition toward green, sustainable forms of living and practices. We need green innovative technologies (GTI) and Internet of Things (IoT) technologies to develop green, durable, biodegradable, and eco-friendly products for a sustainable future. GTI encompasses all innovations that contribute to developing significant products, services, or processes that lower environmental harm, impact, and worsening while augmenting natural resource utilization. Sensors are typically used in IoT environmental monitoring applications to aid ecological safety by nursing air or water quality, atmospheric or soil conditions, and even monitoring species' movements and habitats. The industries and the governments are working together, have come up with solutions-the Green New Deal, carbon pricing, use of bio-based products as biopesticides, in biopharmaceuticals, green building materials, bio-based membrane filters for removing pollutants, bioenergy, biofuels and are essential for the green recovery of world economies. Environmental biotechnology, Green Chemical Engineering, more bio-based materials to separate pollutants, and product engineering of advanced materials and environmental economies are discussed here to pave the way toward the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) set by the UN and achieve the much-needed IR 4.0 for a greener-balanced environment and a sustainable future.

Keywords: Bio-based materials; Environmental biotechnology; Environmental economies; Fourth Industrial Revolution; Green technology; Post-COVID-19; Sustainable transitions.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no competing interests.

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Green supply chain management (GSCM) refers to incorporating environmental considerations into supply chain management, including product design, material sourcing and selection, manufacturing, final product delivery, and product end-of-life management. This figure describes the application of GSCM within IR 4.0
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This figure demonstrates the role of IoT in energy management and conservation. It includes cutting operational expenses, optimizing asset maintenance, reducing energy spending, integrating green energy, minimizing carbon emission, complying with regulations, and predicting consumption and spending
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The Green New Deal, goals, and strategies for sustainable and eco-friendly transition. It includes bioenergy, biodefence, bio-cities, biodiversity, bioeconomy, green housing, agriculture, and bio-based materials
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The model archetypes for a GT business. This includes energy efficinnovator, efficient energizer, energy efficretor, material efficinnovator, efficiency material enhancer, material efficretor, recyclinnovator, recyclenhancer, GT, greenhanced substituter, and greentech substituter
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