Date/Time: 2025-04-03T13:00:00Z→2025-04-03T14:00:00Z
Location: Online
Description: While there is a lot of discussion about WHY we need sustainability (Climate Change, Forever Chemicals, Human Toxicity, Ecosystem Degradation…) and WHAT we should do to measure and characterize sustainability (LCA’s, UN SDGs, Circular Economy, Safe and Sustainable by Design, Planetary Boundaries…) It is especially important to discuss HOW we should make these changes. This is the domain of Green Chemistry.
When a researcher contemplates a new experiment, when an inventor imagines a new product, he or she makes several small and large decisions that will have profound impact on the ultimate sustainability of what they do. If they do not have the skills and tools to understand the sustainability implications at the mechanistic molecular level (green chemistry), it is unlikely that they will successfully achieve sustainability objectives. This presentation will discuss how green chemistry can be integrated into the earliest stages of research and development to ensure maximum sustainability. Real world, commercialized examples will be used to illustrate key points.
In this webinar, you will learn:
- The Why’s and the What’s of sustainability are important, but solutions come from How (green chemistry).
- It is not enough to simply WANT to create sustainable technologies, there are certain critical skills required, as defined by the 12 principles of green chemistry.
- Not only does green chemistry have moral and ethical implications, but it is also a pathway to accelerate R&D and lower costs. (If you truly understand green chemistry).
- Several commercialize products illustrate the reality of green chemistry’s successful implementation in the real world.
Link: Green Chemistry as the Foundation of Sustainability and the Circular Economy