Issue 4, 2021

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

Abstract

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.

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

Article information

Article type
Perspective
Submitted
01 Oct 2020
Accepted
22 Jan 2021
First published
22 Jan 2021
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY license

Green Chem., 2021,23, 1594-1608

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

V. G. Zuin, I. Eilks, M. Elschami and K. Kümmerer, Green Chem., 2021, 23, 1594 DOI: 10.1039/D0GC03313H

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