Conférence Dr David Cole-Hamilton

Dr David Cole-Hamilton

EaStCHEM, School of Chemistry, University of St. Andrews, St. Andrews, Fife, KY16 9ST, Scotland, UK
djc(at)st-and.ac.uk

The role of chemists in a sustainable world

The world is at a crossroads. It has come from a time where fossil fuel resources provided the raw materials for almost everything and most things were used and thrown away. Because fossil fuels are finite and their burning causes global changes in climate, and because most other resources are finite, we must move to a world where renewable resources are used to make reusable and recyclable objects in a circular economy for sustainable development. The renewable resources must no compete for land with food production.

The United Nations has defined seventeen goals for sustainable development In this talk we shall explore how chemistry can contribute to achieving all of these goals.

Reference: D. J. Cole-Hamilton, Chem. Eur. J, 2020, 26, 1894-1899.