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Fabienne Meyers

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Fabienne Meyers

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If at this point you are still looking for a New Year’s resolution, you may find inspiration in Natalia Tarasova’ s feature focusing on where and how chemistry can meet the world’s needs. (see page 4) The key topics underlined by the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the recent focus on their delivery by 2030 provide a renewed momentum for scientific communities to set well-focused targets. As Tarasova points out, “Chemistry and chemical technology might be considered as a means to achieve these strategic goals.”

Familiar keywords in the SDGs are: water quality improvement, recycling and safe reuse globally, clean energy research and technologies, air quality improvement, and sound management of chemicals and wastes throughout their life cycle. These are not just buzzwords for chemists and those involved in IUPAC projects. A good example is the project titled Chemistry Beyond Chlorine, on which Pietro Tundo provides an update on page 25. Besides reviewing alternatives to energy-intensive production and uses of chlorine, the project will also focus on outreach and education, which the team recognizes are as crucial as the science itself.

The SDGs are likely to be the focus of many debates this year as goals are set to pave the way from 2015 to 2030. In the recent UN report titled “The Road to Dignity by 2030” the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon highlights six essential elements for delivering the SDGs: Dignity, People, Prosperity, Planet, Justice, and Partnership. These elements, he adds, “would help frame and reinforce the universal, integrated and transformative nature of a sustainable development agenda.”

The relevance of such integration is clearly presented in Tarasova’s feature and lies on the foundation that environmental, social, and economic aspects can not be considered in isolation. Tundo also alludes to that integration, recognizing that chemists address issues of sustainable development “in a dialogue with politicians, economists, entrepreneurs and philosophers, and to map the way forward.”

So, my own New Year’s resolution will be to be more engaging and integrating when telling others my story-- others being folks who are not chemists, and my story being that of IUPAC. And yes, we can all do that: remind people that Chemistry has a big part to play in moving the world forward to a sustainable future.

Happy New Chemistryear!

Fabienne Meyers

fabienne@iupac.org

www.iupac.org/publications/ci

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Chemistry International January-February 2015 Volume 37 No. 1

President’s Column

Refocus on Contacts by Mark Cesa 2

Features

Chemistry: Meeting the World’s Needs? by Natalia Tarasova 4

MATECSS: A global network enabling capacity-building for

sustainable energy by Jennifer MacLeod 8

Concepts in Toxicology: Development of Online Instructional

Modules by D.J. Huggins, M. Schwenk, D.M. Templeton, and J. H. Duffus 12

Chemical Speciation of Environmentally Significant Metals:

An IUPAC contribution to reliable and rigorous computer

modelling by Kipton J. Powell, et. al. 15

IUPAC Wire

IUPAC Elections for the 2016–2017 Term 20

IUPAC 2015 Distinguished Women in Chemistry or Chemical Engineering — Call for Nominations 20

PhosAgro/UNESCO/IUPAC Research Grants 20

2015 IUPAC-SOLVAY International Award for Young Chemists 21

Thieme Chemistry Website Relaunched 21

Strengthening the Ties Between IUPAC and the Chinese Chemical Society 22

Chemistry International Survey 22

No Price Increase in 2015 for Pure and Applied Chemistry 23

UNESCO partners with Nature Education and Roche to Launch a Free Online Science Education Resource 23

Cefic Sustainability Report 2013-2014 23

The Project Place

The Emerging Problem of Novel Psychoactive Substances 24 Nomenclature of Carbon Nanotubes and Related Substances 24

Terminology for Modeling and Simulation of Polymers 24

Chemistry Beyond Chlorine 25

Stamps International

Let There Be light! 27

Conference Call

Boron Chemistry by Michael A. Beckett 28

Isoprenoids by Pavel Drašar 29

100 volumes of IUPAC’s Solubility Data Series by David Shaw 30

FloHet-2014 By Eric Scriven 30

Nanomaterials and Human Health by Vladimir Gubala 31

Chemistry Education by Judith Poë 33

Green Chemistry by Liliana Mammino 34

Where 2B & Y 35

Mark Your Calendar37

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