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Dear Colleagues,

According to the summit of the United Nations (UN) General Assembly 2015, 17 sustainable development goals (SDG) have been adopted “to end poverty, protect the planet through ensuring that all people enjoy peace and prosperity by the year 2030”. Sustainable development is actively used as one of the main preventative instruments to reduce the environment's declining condition. In the corporate world, sustainable development is associated with an organization’s holistic approach, considering everything from manufacturing to logistics to customer service. Going green and sustainable benefits the company and maximizes the environmental focus in the long term. Researchers are continuously trying to adopt it in their research domain, mainly in financial modeling, supply chain, transport systems, healthcare systems, construction management, business intelligence, etc. In this Special Issue, researchers from academia and industries are invited to submit papers that explore theoretical, methodological (e.g., optimizations, statistical modelings, soft computing, big data and data mining), and state-of-the-art case studies in selected areas of application related to sustainable development decision making.

Prof. Dr. Syed Mithun Ali
Dr. Irfan Ali
Dr. Golam Kabir
Guest Editors

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Keywords

sustainable development
sustainability assessment
supply chain and logistics management
circular economy
Industry 4.0
multi-criteria decision makings
optimization techniques and applications
multi-objective optimization techniques and applications
soft computing techniques
big data and data mining

Published Papers (1 paper)

Research

15 pages, 2307 KiB

Open AccessArticle

Evaluation of Carbon Emission Factors in the Cement Industry: An Emerging Economy Context

by Mohammad Zahirul Khaiyum, Sudipa Sarker and Golam Kabir

Sustainability 2023, 15(21), 15407; https://doi.org/10.3390/su152115407 - 29 Oct 2023

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Abstract

The cement industry is a major contributor to carbon emissions, responsible for 5–8% of global emissions. This industry is expanding, particularly in emerging economies, and it is expected that CO₂ emissions will rise by 4% by 2050. To address this critical concern, this paper identifies ten factors that contribute to carbon emissions in the cement production process through an extensive literature review and prioritises these factors using the Bayesian best–worst method. The data was gathered by conducting a methodical online survey with seven cement industry professionals in Bangladesh, with the aim of gaining insights into the emerging economy. The results illustrate that fuel burning and electricity consumption are the two greatest contributors to CO₂ emissions in the cement production process. This research provides guidelines for cement industries in emerging economies on how to reduce CO₂ emissions as well as suggesting areas of future research for sustainable cement production. Full article

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Optimization, Big Data, and Data Mining-Related Challenges in Industrial Decision-Making to Achieve Sustainable Development Goals)

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