SSbD

Sustainable chemistry: Green, circular, and safe-by-design

The chemical industry’s traditional “take-make-waste” model poses significant socio-environmental challenges, emphasizing the urgent need for a shift toward sustainability. Addressing these challenges, frameworks such as green chemistry, which focuses on reducing waste and pollution; circular chemistry, emphasizing resource efficiency and recycling; and safe and sustainable-by-design (SSbD), prioritizing product life cycle safety and sustainability, have emerged.

Prescription for Change: Safe and Sustainable Chemistry in Global Pharmaceutical Systems

This webinar is the second session on a global series organised by ISC3, IOMC, and UNITAR (April–September 2026), designed to support the implementation of the Global Framework on Chemicals (GFC) through Safe and Sustainable Innovation.

The series responds to a key challenge: How to translate international commitments on chemicals and waste into practical solutions—particularly at the design and innovation stages?

Safe and Sustainable by Design: Accelerating the Industrial Transition

The 6th Safe and Sustainable by Design (SSbD) Stakeholder Event is scheduled to take place from March 18 - 19 in Brussels. This conference will bring together the European SSbD community, including industry leaders, policymakers, researchers, and innovators from across Europe.

Organized by the European Commission, this event will focus on the revised SSbD Framework, the communication and collaboration among the EU SSbD projects, and the role of the SSbD approach in accelerating the industrial transition.

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