This award provides a post-doctoral fellow/associate or faculty who have started their position no earlier than August 2025 who plans to launch an independent research career in academia, funds to support a post-doctoral associate/fellow for two years once their new research group is launched.
This report was developed under the Working Party on Risk Management. This report summarises discussions held at a workshop on Additional Attributes Beyond Safer for Chemical Selection and Substitution held in Paris 23-24 September 2024. A draft report was reviewed by workshop participants and the Working Party on Risk Management agreed for the report to be released publicly. The Acknowledgements were added to this publication by the OECD Secretariat.
This toolkit has a number of different modules ranging from an overview of sustainability, the 12 principles of green chemistry, real world examples and case studies to using biomimicry as an innovation driver, regulations and international conventions and chemical substitution and alternatives assessment.
As global sustainability challenges become more complex and interconnected, the engagement of scientists, and specifically early-career chemists in policymaking, is gaining urgency. This perspective highlights the current status of science policy engagement in chemistry across all continents. It identifies key institutional models, regional disparities and opportunities for action. Using examples from Europe, the Americas, Africa, Asia and Oceania, we explore how chemists are engaging and shaping the science policy interface.
