This year marked the 30th Green Chemistry Challenge Awards, a program that has exemplified the pollution prevention impact of green chemistry innovations. But this milestone is not just a moment to reflect, it represents a call to action for our community to actively steer innovation toward solutions that meet planetary needs and restore public confidence in science. 

Producing life-saving medicines in a way that is environmentally sustainable by implementing green chemistry and engineering has been the focus of the ACS GCI Pharmaceutical Roundtable (ACS GCIPR) since its inception in 2005. Investing in green chemistry has brought substantial benefits, both environmental and economic, and solidified green chemistry across the industry as the gold standard.   

Producing life-saving medicines in a way that is environmentally sustainable by implementing green chemistry and engineering has been the focus of the ACS GCI Pharmaceutical Roundtable (ACS GCIPR) since its inception in 2005. Investing in green chemistry has brought substantial benefits, both environmental and economic, and solidified green chemistry across the industry as the gold standard.  

On May 23, a group of scientific leaders gathered at the Nobel Prize Museum to launch the Stockholm Declaration on Chemistry for the Future. (C&EN’s coverage of this event provides a great overview.) The declaration covers five areas where transformative changes are needed to support positive outcomes for society and ecosystems.

It is hard to believe it has already been a month since the ACS Green Chemistry Institute’s (GCI) 29th Annual Green Chemistry and Engineering Conference (GC&E) kicked off in Pittsburgh! This was an incredible week marked by outstanding technical programming, engaging events for students, and the voices of pioneers and emerging leaders in sustainable science and engineering.

In the next article in our series spotlighting the 2023 Early Career Postdoctoral-Faculty Bridge Grant (ECP) awardees and the 2023 Principal Investigator Development (PISD) in Sustainability Grant awardees, read about the impact of the ECP grant on the evolution of sustainable materials science research and education, and learn how the PISD grant has fostered international collaboration.  

Twenty years ago, on January 24, 2005, a unique and productive partnership between the ph