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Sustainable Development
Published in Kyoung Hee Kim, Microalgae Building Enclosures, 2022
As of 2019, 25 states and territories within the United States had joined the U.S. Climate Alliance. This group started in 2017 as a partnership between the states of California, New York, and Washington and expanded to the current participants. The alliance overall aims to reduce GHG emissions and increase renewable energy production with the goal to “reduce their collective greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by at least 26 to 28 percent below 2005 levels by 2025, with many adopting substantially more ambitious emission reduction targets.”54 The participating states and territories have adopted policy strategies to adhere to GHG reduction targets through building energy efficiency, clean transportation systems, renewable power generation, and carbon sequestration. They are implementing legislation committed to net zero or nearly net zero GHG emissions and a 100% renewable energy target by no later than 2050. Three states, Virginia, Washington, and Wisconsin, and the territory of Puerto Rico signed legislation committing to 100% carbon-free electricity by no later than 2050.55 In addition to environmental impact, the relation between the green economy and green jobs is clear, and the promotion of clean technology is expected to increase the number of jobs in renewable energy and the energy efficiency market. Climate change policies and capital allocations in the green industry affect the implementation of net zero carbon buildings.
Green Chemistry and Sustainable Nanotechnological Developments: Principles, Designs, Applications, and Efficiency
Published in Neha Kanwar Rawat, Iuliana Stoica, A. K. Haghi, Green Polymer Chemistry and Composites, 2021
Yassine Slimani, Essia Hannachi
Green economy endeavors to endorse sustainability and alternate approaches to reduce the demands for raw resource materials and energy, to improve industrial procedures, to decrease the emissions of greenhouse gas, to avoid environmental pollutions and hazards, to diminish wastes, and to recycle effectively wastes and expired products. In the initial industrial procedures, the fabrication of polymers used mostly oil raw materials, elevated energy inputs, and generated nondegradable plastics and huge quantities of wastes. In 1930, the initial manufacturing method to make polyethylene (PE) needed temperatures exceeding 150°C and very high pressures above 1000 bar. Catalytic olefin polymerizations were developed in 1950s at temperatures below 100°C and with lower pressures inferior than 10 bar.47 The worldwide fabrication of plastic materials and polymers grew significantly in the last decades achieving in 2014 the incredible quantity of 315 million metric tons. The greatest producers are China with about 25% of the worldwide fabrication and the United States, Canada, and Mexico with around 20%. There exist more than 70,000 of plastics industries in Europe. Nowadays, statistics indicated 100 kg of plastics is consumed each year by one person in advanced countries.48-49
Advances and Challenges of Bionanotechnology in the Sustainable Management of the Environment and Green Economy
Published in Naveen Dwivedi, Shubha Dwivedi, Bionanotechnology Towards Sustainable Management of Environmental Pollution, 2023
Shubha Dwivedi, Naveen Dwivedi
The “green economy” concept has been driven into the mainstream of policy debate by the global economic crisis, expected increase in global demand for energy by more than one-third between 2010 and 2035, rising commodity prices as well as the urgent need for addressing global challenges in domains such as energy, environment, and health. The most extensively used and trustworthy definition of “green economy” comes from the United Nations Environment Program which states that “a green economy is one that results in improved human well-being and social equity, while significantly reducing environmental risks and ecological scarcities. It is low carbon, resource competent, and socially comprehensive.”
Low-carbon warehousing practices and challenges: insights from emerging country
Published in International Journal of Logistics Research and Applications, 2022
Azian Ibrahim, Yudi Fernando, Ming-Lang Tseng, Ming K. Lim
Managing operations sustainably in the manufacturing industry has progressed significantly over the years due to customer requirements. For example, the growing environmental concerns of consumers and government regulations have driven the emergence of a low-carbon supply chain (LCSC). In addition, manufacturing firms opt to achieve sustainable growth through LCSC practices to show their commitment to sustainable development goals (SDG) and a green economy. Manufacturing now adopts low-carbon practices in various supply chain (SC) stages, creating a greener environment for future generations and opening up multiple avenues for improvement (Rahman et al. 2020; Saputro and Rouyendegh 2016; Zhang et al. 2022). With rising regulatory norms and customer awareness, low-carbon processes can maintain a sustainable competitive advantage and compete with their contenders (Ding et al. 2022; Wangsa, Vanany, and Siswanto 2022). Therefore, sustainability practice needs commitment from the stakeholders and supply chain networks. This study argues that collaboration efforts in warehousing could improve supply chain efficiency and reduce warehousing costs.
Green supply chain management in the platform economy: a bibliometric analysis
Published in International Journal of Logistics Research and Applications, 2022
The information of publications is extracted by R in the literature database, which is further analysed to obtain the top 10 sources of journals (Table 4). Those top 10 journals are almost related to the topic of sustainable development, green economy and environment, and supply chain management. In 1404 related articles, 57 papers are published in Journal of Cleaner Production, accounting for 4.06% of the total number in this field. In this journal, the latest related articles discuss the potential of Industry 4.0 and Internet of things in improving economic, environmental, and social sustainability in supply chain management (Mastos et al. 2020). Besides, among these top ten journals, although International Journal of Information Management ranks lower in the light of publications, its impact factor is the highest (IF = 8.210).
State of future water regimes in the world’s river basins: balancing the water between society and nature
Published in Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology, 2019
The water-energy-food (WEF) nexus systematically improves water security by enhancing resource use efficiency in many river basins since the WEF nexus addresses pressures on the ecosystems that supply vital resources to the society (Lawford, Bogardi, et al., 2013; Yang, Wi, Ray, Brown, & Khalil, 2016). The WEF nexus can identify unprecedented consequences of water shortages in societies due to pressures arising in all three sectors. The linkages across those sectors can have potential to improve resource efficiency and environmental sustainability, because provisions are made for Green Economy and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) while establishing a nexus. For example, increased water shortages in river basins could alter irrigation water supply, reduced food production followed by increased food prices. Food prices are linked to energy prices because agriculture is becoming increasingly energy intensive through increased use of fertilizers, machinery and groundwater pumping (Bazilian et al., 2011; Ringler, Bhaduri, & Lawford, 2013). The three core sectors, water, energy and food if managed in isolation, make river basins and societies living within, more vulnerable, as the sectors are connected within a boundless complex cycle (de Amorim et al., 2018; Finley & Seiber, 2014).