Lothar Brecker
University of Vienna, Austria
Title: Are regional features a key to globalize sustainability in chemistry?
Biography
Biography: Lothar Brecker
Abstract
Green Chemistry and sustainability in Chemistry are important topics since more than two decades. A couple of standards and public regulations have been defined, in particular in industrialized countries. The chemical industry nowadays checks their processes and activities with respect to sustainability. Frame conditions for these developments, however, differ entirely between different nations. Several local and regional aspects require diverse applications in the design of effective sustainable concepts. Hence globalization of Green Chemistry cannot be based on an application of a single standardized plan. Rather a globalized basic frame of targets should be aspired to reach the collective good. In realization regional aspects have to be considered. They should intend optimal applications of sustainability with respect to environmental, national and political frames. Reaching such globalized way of thinking can, however, not been managed within a few years. It is necessary to agree on globally long-term concerted approaches, which incorporate various regional necessities. And it is essential to globalize the ideas of sustainability and worldwide interactions, which will be generally accepted and regionally applied.