About the Relationship Between Green Technology and Material Usage

A bibliometric study of sustainable technology research

“…In addition to the articles reviewed in the areas mentioned, some recent articles on sustainable technologies, green technologies, clean technologies, renewable energy technologies and environmental technologies have also been studied, topics discussed in recent articles involves, evaluating the efficiency of such technologies using the Malmquist-Luenberger index (Feng & Wang, 2018;Luo et al, 2019;Mardani et al, 2017), examining the impact of green innovations on materials use (Wendler, 2019), exploring ways to reduce pollution and waste (Bruscato et al, 2019), toxic and organic micro-pollutants (Jankovic et al, 2019), the need to use sustainable technologies such as carbon capture in the oil and coal exploitation process to reduce pollution (Sarkodie & Ozturk, 2020), and also, the need to use low-carbon technologies to meet international climate change agreements (Romano & Fumagalli, 2018), optimizing green technologies , investigating the effects of government policies such as emission taxes on green innovation (Langinier & Ray Chaudhuri, 2019), reviewing optimal green technology innovation strategies in local governments and companies (Deng et al, 2019), investing in green technologies (Zhou et al, 2019), and R&D investments in green technology to develop these technologies (Lee et al, 2015), the amount of sustainable technologies consumed and the importance of training in adopting these technologies (Ninh et al, 2019).…”

The sustainability of phytomass-derived materials: thermodynamical aspects, life cycle analysis and research perspectives

“…The rebound effect is spectacular in the digital world in which remarkable innovations in energy efficiency or data storage have led to more massproduction. 243,244 Nevertheless, the entropic aspect of biomass production is in itself inspiring to produce more efficient technologies. The quantum exergy efficiency of photosynthesis is remarkable and it has long been recognized in academic works.…”

“…The rebound effect is spectacular in the digital world in which remarkable innovations in energy efficiency or data storage have led to more mass-production. 243,244…”

“…in that they do not follow a high consumption lifestyle and growth-oriented macroeconomics; growth-oriented consumption is increasingly pointed out by modern economists as being unsustainable, both in terms of social and physical limits. 10,244,249 Ideally, low tech solutions should have the advantage of being easy to implement in all areas, including isolated ones, with limited transportation involved. In the COVID-19 case, staying home was the most efficient option selected by most governments worldwide, and this change in attitude is a reminder that solutions to modern issues are not always technological.…”

Spatial and Temporal Evolution Analysis of Industrial Green Technology Innovation Efficiency in the Yangtze River Economic Belt

“…First, as shown by evaluating the efficiency of green technology innovation, the existing studies are mainly based on the level of enterprises or industries. Taking heavily polluting enterprises as the research object [ 8 ], Hu et al [ 9 ] discussed the impact of green credit policy (GCP) on green technology innovation. Xu et al [ 10 ] measured the green technology innovation efficiency and green total factor productivity of the advanced manufacturing industry in the Yangtze River Delta by constructing a two-stage evaluation index system and analyzing its spatial differentiation characteristics.…”