The 7th International IUPAC Conference on Green Chemistry
The 7th International IUPAC Conference on Green Chemistry took place from October 2nd to October 5th, 2017 in Moscow, being hosted by Mendeleyev University of Chemical Technology of Russia. One hundred fifty-eight participants from Belgium, Brazil, China, Estonia, France, Germany, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, South African Republic came to Moscow to share ideas of enabling the humanity with the essential tools of green chemistry to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. Within the ICGC-7 the satellite events have been organized: The School for Young Chemists with the theme “Assessment of Planetary Boundaries for Chemical Pollution”, and two Memorial Symposia dedicated to the outstanding Russian scientists and educators-academician Valentin Koptyug (IUPAC President in 1988–1989 biennium) and Professor Gennady Yagodin (rector of Mendeleev University and the last minister for people’s education of the USSR). They contributed a lot to the introduction of the ideas of sustainable development and green chemistry in the USSR, and then in Russia, as well as all over the world. The Conference was endorsed by IUPAC and was sponsored by diamond sponsor Russian Science Foundation, platinum sponsors PhosAgro and Sinopec, gold sponsor the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), silver sponsor the Government of Moscow. The unique topic of the conference was the development of chemistry within planetary boundaries. In 2009, a ‘planetary boundaries’ concept was suggested by Rockstrom et al. [1]. One of the nine planetary boundaries (chemical pollution) is directly related to the releases of human-made chemicals into the environment. Estimation of the limits of this technogenic impact is one of systemic technological challenges that is to be jointly solved by chemists with diverse specializations. ICGC-7 kicked off on Monday, the 2nd of October at the Big Assembly Hall of Dmitry Mendeleev University of Chemical Technology of Russia with Prof. Tarasova’s welcome message followed by the plenary video-lecture of Professor Martyn Poliakoff, the University of Nottingham, Great Britain “Towards Greener Photochemistry”. The work of the ICGC-7 was organized in the following subject sections: Section 1 “Green Industrial Processes”. Section 2 “Sustainable Development Goals and Green Chemistry”.