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The society is currently facing an entrance in the Fourth Industrial Revolution, distinguished for the
interconnection of physical and virtual systems, and the possibility of global connection and cooperation.
Green Technologies have an important say in this change, and they can become one of the main positive
outcomes of this revolution, as technological improvements can in turn facilitate the encouragement and
invention of new ways to assure the protection of the environment while improving the society’s living
conditions.

But there are also other interesting initiatives related to Green Technologies which are being developed
worldwide. Ideas such as the Society 5.0., an initiative held in Japan to promove a more technological
society, aiming to create a social reform in which all members of the society have the opportunity to lead
an enjoyable life. This concrete initiative has been born due to the problems of population aging, which in
turn will become a challenge for the Japaneses economy.