TY - JOUR

T1 - Education in green chemistry and in sustainable chemistry

T2 - perspectives towards sustainability

AU - Zuin, Vânia G.

AU - Eilks, Ingo

AU - Elschami, Myriam

AU - Kümmerer, Klaus

N1 - Publisher Copyright: © The Royal Society of Chemistry 2021.

PY - 2021/2/21

Y1 - 2021/2/21

N2 - 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.

AB - 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.

KW - Chemistry

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85102015788&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1039/d0gc03313h

DO - 10.1039/d0gc03313h

M3 - Journal articles

AN - SCOPUS:85102015788

VL - 23

SP - 1594

EP - 1608

JO - Green Chemistry

JF - Green Chemistry

SN - 1463-9262

IS - 4

ER -