Every two years, IUPAC holds its big international congress. In 2023, it will be in The Hague, Netherlands, from 20 to 25 August.
During the conference, themed Connecting Chemical Worlds, organizers will bring together all disciplines of chemistry, a diverse audience of chemists from both academia and industry, and from all around the globe. Apart from plenary and invited lectures, the congress will include parallel sessions with oral presentations, focus sessions and poster presentations by junior and senior researchers.
Among plenary speakers, let us underline that some talks are directly related to sustainability:
- How to make green hydrogen, by Marc Koper, Leiden University, The Netherlands
- Sustainable polymer chemistry using catalysis to make polymers from renewables and in chemical recycling, by Charlotte Williams, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
- Materials Chemistry and the Future of Human Civilization, by Nicola Spaldin, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Sessions are grouped under five topics that are all related to sustainable development goals in a way or in another, even though one of them states it explicitly:
- Chemistry at the Molecular Frontiers
- Chemistry related to Health
- Smart & Energy Materials
- Ethics, Education & Society
- Chemistry related to Sustainability
More precisely, the content of the latest group is:
- Electrocatalysis and the synthesis of high-value chemicals, organized by Marta Costa Figueiredo (Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands) and Amanda Garcia (University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands);
- New plastics circular by design, organized by Arnaud Thevenon (Utrecht University, the Netherlands);
- Development of new reaction pathways towards Green Chemistry, organized by Pietro Tundo (Green Sciences for Sustainable Development Foundation, Italy)
- A Sustainable Planet and Society, organized by Margaret Mills (American Chemical Society, USA)
- Prospects of CO2 capture & activation for a circular chemical industry, organized by Elena Höppener (TNO, NL), Ruud van Ommen (Delft University of Technology, NL) and Martin van Sint Annaland (Eindhoven University of Technology, NL)
Look for more information at https://iupac2023.org
