Project No.: 2025-004-2-041
Start Date: 16 Jun 2025
Division: Interdivisional Committee on Green Chemistry for Sustainable Development (ICGCSD)
https://iupac.org/project/2025-004-2-041
Objective
In partnership with International Organisation of Chemical Sciences for Development (IOCD)
The project builds on engagement with chemical industry established during IUPAC project 2020-014-3-050, Systems Thinking in Chemistry for Sustainability: Toward 2030 and Beyond (STCS 2030+), providing a channel for collaboration between chemical companies that facilitates dialogue, collaboration and commitment on tackling sustainability challenges and concentrated efforts to identify and implement solutions.
- Develop a Policy Paper (“White Paper”) on the enabling environment needed to strengthen chemical industry engagement in systems thinking and sustainability.
- Develop representative Case Studies (see examples below) of using systems thinking to advance sustainability in chemical industry: unpacking the factors, options and trade-offs in each selected industrial system; providing a model of system-wide approaches to sustainability.
- Strengthen tertiary education, in-service training and professional development on systems thinking in chemical industry: equipping chemistry graduates and those working in industry with specific systems thinking skills.
- Create a website to disseminate the project results and create visual materials to help promote them.
Planned Activities
The planned activities of this group are centered around:
- Promoting an enabling environment.
- Building examples of good practice through case studies.
- Strengthening capacity for systems thinking in chemical industry through identification of education and professional development needs.
