Education in green chemistry and in sustainable chemistry: perspectives towards sustainability

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Innovation in green and sustainable technologies requires highly qualified professionals, who have critical, inter/transdisciplinary and system thinking mindsets. In this context, green chemistry education (GCE) and sustainable chemistry education (SCE) have received increasing attention, especially in recent years. However, gaps remain in further understanding the historical roots of green chemistry (GC) and sustainable chemistry (SC), their differences, similarities, as well the implications of this wider comprehension into curricula. Building on existing initiatives, further efforts are needed at all levels to mainstream GCE and SCE into chemistry and other education curricula and teaching, including gathering and disseminating best practices and forging new and strengthened partnerships at the national, regional and global levels. The latest perspectives for education and capacity building on GC and towards SC will be presented, demonstrating their crucial role to transform human resources, institutional and infrastructural settings in all sectors on a large scale, to generate effective cutting-edge knowledge that can be materialised in greener and more sustainable products and processes in a challenging world.

OriginalspracheEnglisch
ZeitschriftGreen Chemistry
Jahrgang23
Ausgabenummer4
Seiten (von - bis)1594-1608
Anzahl der Seiten15
ISSN1463-9262
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PublikationsstatusErschienen - 21.02.2021

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Funding Information:
Vânia Zuin would like to thank CNPq (310149/2017-7, 421096/ 2016-0, and 311000/2014-2), FAPESP (17/25015-1), Capes-PrInt, IUPAC (2013-041-3-300), Robert Bosch and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundations for their financial support. Klaus Kümmerer and Myriam Elschami would like to thank the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety and the German Umweltbundesamt (UBA) for the financial support within the International Sustainable Chemistry Centre (ISC3) activities. Vânia Zuin, Ingo Eilks and Klaus Kümmerer would also like to thank the UN Environment Programme, especially the UN Global Chemicals Outlook II (GCO-II) for the fruitful discussions inspiring some of the ideas expressed in this article.

Funding Information:
V?nia Zuin would like to thank CNPq (310149/2017-7, 421096/2016-0, and 311000/2014-2), FAPESP (17/25015-1), Capes-PrInt, IUPAC (2013-041-3-300), Robert Bosch and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundations for their financial support. Klaus K?mmerer and Myriam Elschami would like to thank the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety and the German Umweltbundesamt (UBA) for the financial support within the International Sustainable Chemistry Centre (ISC3) activities. V?nia Zuin, Ingo Eilks and Klaus K?mmerer would also like to thank the UN Environment Programme, especially the UN Global Chemicals Outlook II (GCO-II) for the fruitful discussions inspiring some of the ideas expressed in this article.

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