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INDUSTRY 4.0 TECHNOLOGY AND BIODIVERSITY
Lіudmуla Deіneko, Oksana Kyshnirenko

Institute for Economics and Forecasting of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine,
Kyiv, Ukraine; E-mail.: kushnksena@gmail.com

A characteristic feature of the current days is the technological challenges, related to
Industry 4.0. These include the widespread dissemination of digital technologies in
manufacturing and services, including everyday life, work, and leisure. Technological changes
of the Industry 4.0 are characterized by the global integration of digital networking
technologies into day-to-day life. It established new rules and priorities, changed forms of
behavior, and set the parameters of the impact on the environment and biodiversity, propelling
the world into modernity. It is not a matter of the local application of technologies, but about
their merger, integration into a network, which entails profound structural transformations
that are manifested at the global level. Prior to the emergence of Industry 4.0 all organisms have
been evolving within the natural selection processes, but industrial development advances
have brought the loss of biodiversity (from 10 to 50 % of well-studied higher taxonomic groups
are endangered, including 23 % of mammalian species, 12 % of birds, 25 % – conifers),
triggering food and water insecurity. The latest technologies make it possible to carry out a
rational design of biological development. Such biological intervention may have serious risks
if the effects of such intervention are not sufficiently studied.
In the light of the above mentioned, the goal of the research is to improve the conceptual
approaches for explaining the causes of environmental transformations and determining the
patterns of their impact on biodiversity, to prevent the destructive impact of industrial and
innovative transformations brought by the Industry 4.0. That, in turn, will allow developing new
approaches to the prospects of further socio-economic development and will help to adapt to
the challenges of the future.
Both general and special scientific methods were used in the study. To determine the
impact of technological innovations of Industry 4.0 on the environment, particularly on
biodiversity, a systematic approach was applied. The main research methods used in the work
are abstract-logical (for theoretical generalization of the results of the scientific research and
formation of conclusions); economic and statistical – time series, analytical grouping (to
identify trends in detecting the influence of factors on biodiversity), monographic (to clarify
individual concepts – "industry 4.0", "biodiversity", etc.).
Through compiling and synthesizing existing scientific approaches to Industry 4.0’s
technologies, it has been determined that they could be both a source of future environmental
problems and a basis for the new promising environmental technologies. The identification of
transformational forces, that will affect future development, making it possible to systematize
the factors influencing industry 4.0 technologies on biodiversity and the state of the
environment. The measures for the prevention of such risks are substantiated, of which the
authors distinguish: intimate understanding of the mechanics of the rational management of
natural resources with the use of appropriate innovative ecologically oriented
nanotechnologies; enhancing the development of a circular economy; stimulating sustainable
practices in the manufacturing, retail and service provision; promoting sustainable
consumption and the transition to healthy diets; reduction of industrial waste; reduction of
emissions and the transition to a state of "low-carbon industries"; support of the ecological
transport development and the creation of appropriate infrastructure; the dissemination of
environmentally friendly resource-efficient innovations, development of "green" businesses.
This paper considered the issue of the Industry 4.0 influence on biodiversity and the state
of the environment. With the development of Industry 4.0, the demands of society to protect the
interests of each person and the environment are growing.

Keywords: Industry 4.0, biodiversity, risks, transhumanism.

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