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How Can Industry 4.0 Contribute to Combatting Climate Change?

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  • Adel Ben Youssef

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Climate change adaptation and mitigation, and industry 4.0 are two important challenges that countries worldwide are facing. The integration of climate change and industry 4.0 could bring several benefits related to promoting sustainability and global economic decarbonization, and achieving the objectives of the Paris Agreement. We conduct a qualitative analysis to describe the main principles and basic technologies of industry 4.0, link industry 4.0 to climate change and identify the conditions which would make industry 4.0 climate compatible. Industry 4.0 needs to fulfil four conditions in order to be climate compatible. It must promote energy efficiency and achieve substantial energy gains, enable the circular economy and allow greater productivity and improved use of resources within closed loop supply chains which include re-use and recovery, achieve sustainable development through eco-innovation, and allow significant technology transfer to the least developed countries (LDCs) which must participate in industry 4.0. Industry 4.0 technologies that meet the above criteria will offer the potential for sustainable development and mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions. JEL classification: Q54, Q58, O33.

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  • Adel Ben Youssef, 2020. "How Can Industry 4.0 Contribute to Combatting Climate Change?," Revue d'économie industrielle, De Boeck Université, vol. 0(1), pages 161-193.
    • Handle: RePEc:cai:reidbu:rei_169_0161
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    Cited by:

    1. Adel Ben Youssef & Mounir Dahmani & Séverine Borderon-Carrez, 2021. "Territories’ adaptation to climate change and the effects of pandemics," Post-Print halshs-03507278, HAL.
    2. Adelina Zeqiri & Mounir Dahmani & Adel Ben Youssef, 2020. "Digitalization of the tourism industry: What are the impacts of the new wave of technologies," Post-Print hal-03523747, HAL.
    3. Adel Ben Youssef & Issam Mejri, 2023. "Linking Digital Technologies to Sustainability through Industry 5.0: A bibliometric Analysis," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 15(9), pages 1-20, May.

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    Keywords

    Industry 4.0; climate change; UNFCCC; sustainability; energy efficiency;
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    JEL classification:

    • Q54 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Climate; Natural Disasters and their Management; Global Warming
    • Q58 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Environmental Economics: Government Policy
    • O33 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes

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