The future of the technology-based manufacturing in the European Union

Mallik, Awadesh Kumar

doi:10.1016/j.rineng.2023.101356

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“…The EU has established a high target of reaching CN by 2050, which entails balancing greenhouse gas emissions with reductions or cuts, ultimately attaining a netzero carbon footprint [64]. There are significant factors to achieve CN such as controlling climate change, international cooperations/commitments [49], reducing air pollution/greenhouse gas emissions [65], mitigating the damages in natural habitats, protecting biodiversity [66], renewable energy use like wind and solar alternatives instead of fossil fuels [67], promoting waste management/circular economy/recycling/sustainable production and consumption [45], investing on cutting-edge technologies like carbon capture and storage [64], supporting electric vehicles in public transportation and individual mobility [50], suggesting energy use optimization in manufacturing industries [68], encouraging reforestation and sustainable farming [69], CN education to improve the awareness [70], government policies and regulations for CN [71].…”

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Sustainability through digital transformation: EU practices

Karadayi-Usta

2024

Sustain. Social. Dev.

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<p>The significance of sustainability efforts has been reaffirmed by negative circumstances, such as the escalating visible consequences of climate change, floods resulting from erratic weather patterns in certain areas, and fires and extreme droughts in other regions. The logical rationale behind employing digital tools for sustainability purposes lies in the efficiency of digital transformation, supported by artificial intelligence, in improving remote access, control, and decision-making processes, as well as accomplishing tasks that are unachievable through human effort alone. Upon analyzing practices worldwide, it becomes apparent that the European Union (EU) is the singular entity that places utmost importance on digitalization as a means to ensure sustainability. Additionally, it provides comprehensive allocations for projects pertaining to this subject and supports the collective wisdom of its members through the established union. Hence, the purpose of this study is to examine the current literature in detail via a systematic review to extract the EU practices of sustainability through digitalization. Findings reveal the particular EU focuses and key themes on achieving sustainability with a visual representation of the results. Besides, the EU practices with other well-known countries on sustainability through digitalization efforts are compared and discussed. Thus, a practitioner can understand the findings of this research to use as the first step when generating research questions to start a new study.<strong></strong></p>

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