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9th Green & Sustainable Chemistry Conference

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Join us in Pune, India for the 9th Green and Sustainable Chemistry Conference:

We look forward to welcoming you to Pune, India for a high-level and inspiring program which will explore inter- and transdisciplinary aspects of green and sustainable chemistry. View the full topics list.

Invited speakers will be joined by the finalists of the Chemistry for Climate Action Challenge, contributed talks and posters for which abstracts are invited.

Deadlines

Abstract submission deadline: 31 October 2024

Author notification: 18 November 2024

Author registration and early booking deadline: 15 December 2024

The Green and Sustainable Chemistry Conference is focused on inter- and transdisciplinary aspects of green and sustainable chemistry. Contributions clearly demonstrating a link to green and/ or sustainable chemistry within the conference topics are invited.

Please see detailed guidelines for submission here.

Reasons to attend

  • Interact with high-level speakers: including government representatives and leading researchers from industry and academia.

  • Gain a global perspective: coverage includes experience from the developed world and insight from developing countries.

  • Understand industry viewpoints: experts and thought-leaders from top chemical companies and organisations explore how industry can better demonstrate the value of 'green' and 'sustainable' across its value chains and to end consumers.

  • Present your latest research: Share your research as a short talk or in our lively poster sessions

  • Grow your professional network

  • Find out about the most environmentally sustainable innovations: hear from the winners of the Elsevier Foundation Chemistry for Climate Action Challenge.

  • Spreading sustainable chemistry worldwide: Share your experiences in research, teaching and good practice.

Keynote and invited talks from renowned speakers

Meet the esteemed committee members and speakers participating in the conference.

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Discover and participate

Abstracts are invited for talks and posters by 31 October 2024 on the conference topics.

Guidelines for authors

Before submitting abstracts, please make sure that your work is in scope of the conference. Only submissions clearly demonstrating a link to green and/ or sustainable chemistry will be considered.

Indicating which green chemistry principles, sustainable development goals or sustainable chemistry aspects are addressed (see Key Characteristic of Sustainable Chemistry opens in new tab/window) and how your research contributes to a more sustainable future increases the chance of submission acceptance.

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Exhibitors

Choose from a variety of sponsorship and commercial options to raise your profile and position your company as a thought leader in the community.

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Session topics

  1. Energy Conversion and Storage

  2. Sustainable Chemistry and Climate Mitigation

    1. CO2 Utilisation & Storage

    2. Hydrogen Economy

    3. Reduction of Greenhouse Gas and Air Pollutant Emissions

    4. Other Approaches

  3. Sustainable Chemistry and Environmental Science

  4. Sustainable Chemistry: The Bigger Picture

    1. Education

    2. Society

    3. Economy & Alternative Business Models

  5. Safe and Sustainable by Design

  6. Sustainable Chemistry and Circular Economy

  7. Chemical Recycling of Waste

  8. Sustainability Metrics and Assessment

  9. Recent Developments in Greener Synthesis and Catalysis

  10. Photochemistry and Photocatalysis

  11. Green Analytical Chemistry

  12. Green and Sustainable Pharmacy

  13. Sustainability of Elements and Materials

    1. Metals

    2. Plastics

    3. Resources management and monitoring

  14. Sustainable Chemistry and Agriculture, Regenerative Systems, Biomass and Bioresources

Elsevier Foundation Chemistry for Climate Action Challenge

A unique feature of the conference is the Elsevier Foundation Chemistry for Climate Action Challenge opens in new tab/window - previously the Elsevier Foundation Green & Sustainable Chemistry Challenge.

The five finalists of the 2025 edition of the challenge will give a short presentation to the judges at the Green & Sustainable Chemistry Conference where the winning project will be announced.

View winners of previous editions of the Challenge here. opens in new tab/window

Chairs Welcome

It is my great pleasure to warmly invite you to the 9th Green and Sustainable Chemistry Conference (GSCC9)!

The 9th GSCC will held on 4-6 March 2025. For many aspects, this is special. After successful eight editions in Europe, organised by Prof. Dr. Klaus Kümmerer and Mr. Rob van Daalen of Elsevier, the conference is moving to Asia next year. It will be hosted by the National Chemical Laboratory (NCL), one of the premier research labs in India and will be facilitated by the local co-chair, Dr. Shubhangi Umbarkar. Organising this conference in NCL is quite special for me as this is where I shaped my research career. NCL has a tradition of organising several (inter)national conferences. It is located in Pune, which is a historical city with a modern and cosmopolitan outlook. Pune is well connected nationally and internationally and is easily reachable from Mumbai (Bombay), the business capital of India. The city, which is one of the largest educations hubs of India, has excellent hotels and offers a wide variety of cuisines from all over the world.

The 9th conference will continue the rich traditions of the previous editions of GSCC, especially the interdisciplinarity of the themes. As Prof. Kümmerer stressed in his previous addresses, we need even more interdisciplinary exchange and concepts, understanding and working within multiple disciplines to solve the challenges the society face currently. The GSCC conference will coninue to contribute towards the attempts to foster such an interdisciplinary effort. Thus, the 9th GSCC will offer a great platform to discuss and further develop the key characteristics of sustainable chemistry, the relationship of sustainable chemistry and green chemistry, and the role of chemistry within a circular economy.

I look forward to seeing you in at the 9th GSCC in Pune in March 2025!

Shiju Raveendran Conference Chair

Supporting Publications

Current Opinion in Green and Sustainable Chemistry

In Current Opinion in Green and Sustainable Chemistry opens in new tab/window, we help the reader by providing in a systematic manner:

1. The views of experts on current advances in Green and Sustainable Chemistry in a clear and readable form.

2. Evaluations of the most interesting papers, annotated by experts, from the great wealth of original publications.

The subject Green and Sustainable Chemistry includes all chemical aspects along the life cycle of chemicals as well chemical products and materials e.g. resources, synthesis, use and after life issues. It aims on better understanding where and how chemistry itself can be made more sustainable and whereby chemistry can contribute to sustainability in general.

Current Opinion in Green and Sustainable Chemistry
Sustainable Chemistry and Pharmacy

All authors of accepted contributions to the Green and Sustainable Chemistry Conference in Berlin are invited to submit a manuscript to Sustainable Chemistry and Pharmacy opens in new tab/window.

Your article will receive a lot of extra promotion by extensive marketing campaigns for this new journal and a promotional open access of three months. All submitted manuscripts will undergo a high quality review process before a final decision being made.

Sustainable Chemistry and Pharmacy opens in new tab/window publishes research that is related to chemistry, pharmacy and sustainability science in a forward oriented manner. It provides a unique forum for the publication of innovative research on the intersection and overlap of chemistry and pharmacy on the one hand and sustainability on the other hand. This includes contributions related to increasing sustainability of chemistry and pharmaceutical science and industries itself as well as their products in relation to the contribution of these to sustainability itself. As an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary journal it addresses all sustainability related issues along the life cycle of chemical and pharmaceutical products form resource related topics until the end of life of products.

Sustainable Chemistry and Pharmacy
Sustainable Chemistry for Climate Action

Sustainable Chemistry for Climate Action  opens in new tab/windowwill cover the issues affecting climate and the environment and the pivotal role that sustainable chemistry has to play in solving them.

Sustainable Chemistry for Climate Action

Previous events

8th Green & Sustainable Chemistry Conference 13-15 May 2024 | Dresden, Germany

7th Green & Sustainable Chemistry Conference 22-24 May 2023 | Dresden, Germany

6th Green & Sustainable Chemistry Conference Online – Live and On-demand | 16-18 November 2021

5th Green & Sustainable Chemistry Conference 10-11 November 2020 | Online

4th Green & Sustainable Chemistry Conference 5-8 May 2019 | Dresden, Germany

3rd Green & Sustainable Chemistry Conference 13-16 May 2018 | Hotel Intercontinental Berlin, Germany

2nd Green and Sustainable Chemistry Conference 14 - 17 May 2017 | Hotel InterContinental Berlin, Germany

1st  Green and Sustainable Chemistry Conference 3  - 6 April 2016 |  Hotel InterContinental Berlin, Germany

What  previous delegates thought about the conference:

“High level of scientific content (presentations, posters)” “High quality of keynote lectures” “The topic and scope of this conference is very relevant to today’s society and environment and the world.”