Identifying Opportunities for Green Chemistry Research to Advance Sustainable Development

To establish an overview of the current funding landscape for green and sustainable chemistry, the ACS Green Chemistry Institute (ACS GCI), with funding from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, undertook a year-long project to elucidate opportunities for public and private funders to contribute to achieving the UN SDGs and climate-mitigation goals.

The project consisted of three objectives:

• Convene funding organizations to share information about current and near-future funding interests
• Analyze emerging areas of research anticipated to have a catalytic impact on green chemistry and UN SDGs by developing a hierarchical neural network approach
• Prioritize and analyze emerging areas of research