Green Chemistry & Sustainability
Network with chemists from around the globe to exchange ideas and advance your scientific and technical knowledge. Explore our sustainability programming to stay up to date on the latest advances in green chemistry and sustainable practices.
Our commitment to sustainable practices
Discover ACS Spring 2025's sustainability initiatives and partners focusing on energy, reducing plastic waste, saving fuel, and conserving trees.
Featured Events
Sunday, March 23
Sustainability Summit: Putting Chemistry to Work for Clean Water
2:00 PM - 6:00 PM
San Diego Convention Center,听 Ballroom 20D
In alignment with U.N Sustainable Development Goal #6: Clean Water and Sanitation, this symposium will spotlight the vital role of chemistry in advancing clean water access and quality, with a focus on innovative technology, cross-sector collaboration, and addressing critical innovation gaps.
Monday, March 24
Markers of Excellence in ACS Approved Programs: Integrating Green Chemistry into the Curriculum
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
San Diego Convention Center, Room 2
With the advent of the 2023 ACS Guidelines, approved programs must include green chemistry content, and this symposium will showcase innovative ways speakers have implemented green chemistry content into their courses and offer an interactive session for attendees to explore incorporating it into their courses.
Workshops
Practical Green Chemistry Tools and Techniques for Research and Development Scientists
Tuesday, March 25
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
San Diego Convention Center, Room 23B
Greening Undergraduate Laboratories: A Step-by-Step Guide to Success
Tuesday, March 25
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
San Diego Convention Center, Room 23C
Expo & Trivia
ACS Green Chemistry Institute at Graduate School Fair
Sunday, March 23
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
San Diego Convention Center, Ballroom 20
Scientific Advancement Booth at Expo
Monday, March 24, 11:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Tuesday, March 25, 11:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Wednesday, March 26, 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM
San Diego Convention Center, Halls D, E
ACS Green Chemistry Institute Trivia Game
Tuesday, March 25, 11:30 AM - 12:20 PM
Wednesday, March 26, 11:30 AM - 12:20 PM
San Diego Convention Center, Halls D, E
Technical Sessions & Talks
| Sunday, March 23 | ||
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| 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM | Accelerating Sustainability: Implementation of Greener Alternatives in the Oil & Gas Business | San Diego Marriott Marquis, Marriott Grand Ballroom, Section 11 |
| 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM | Unlocking a New Era: How AI is Transforming Drug Discovery and Development | San Diego Convention Center,听Ballroom 20D |
| 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM | Environmentally Sustainable Materials & Technologies Based on Renewable Resources: Alternative Feedstock & Bio-Based Materials | San Diego Convention Center,听Hall G/H Room 4 |
| 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM | GSSPC: Bonds That Matter: Soft Materials for a Sustainable World | San Diego Convention Center,听Ballroom 6D |
| 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM | Organometallic Chemistry: Earth-Abundant Metal Catalysis | San Diego Convention Center,听Hall B2/C |
| 2:00 PM - 6:00 PM | Sustainability in Organic Chemistry: 20 Years of the ACS GCIPR Grants Program | San Diego Convention Center,听Room听30E |
| 2:00 PM - 6:00 PM | Environmentally Sustainable Materials & Technologies Based on Renewable Resources: Templating and Processing & Functional Materials | San Diego Convention Center,听Hall G/H Room 4 |
| 2:00 PM - 6:00 PM | Catalysis For Decarbonization of Industrial Processes: Decarbonization via Polymer Recycling, New Material & Electrochemistry | San Diego Convention Center,听Room 6E |
| Monday, March 24 | ||
| 8:00 AM - 9:30 AM | Magic of Green Chemistry | San Diego Convention Center,听Hall A - Student Center Theater |
| 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM | Advances in Renewable Materials for a Circular Economy | San Diego Convention Center, Room 24B |
| 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM | Biorefinery Strategies: Green Biorefinery Processes | San Diego Convention Center, Ballroom 6F |
| 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM | Deciphering the Biodegradation of Dextran and Their Derivatives for Biodegradable Product Innovation | San Diego Marriott Marquis,听Pacific Ballroom, Section 18 |
| 9:35 AM - 10:05 AM | Synthesis and excited state properties of heavy-metal free iron sulfide nanocrystals | San Diego Convention Center, Room 32B |
| 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM | Undergraduate Research Posters: Green & Sustainable Chemistry | San Diego Convention Center, Hall B2/C |
| 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM | Smart and Sustainable Polymeric Materials and Beyond: Polymer Design and Processing for Sustainability | San Diego Marriott Marquis,听Pacific Ballroom, Section 21 |
| 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM | AIChE/ACS Frontiers of Chemistry, Materials Science & Chemical Engineering for Circular Economy | Digital Session |
| Tuesday, March 25 | ||
| 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM | ACS Award for Affordable Green Chemistry | San Diego Convention Center, Room 30D |
| 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM | ENVR Combined Virtual: Environmental Justice | Digital Session |
| 2:00 PM - 6:00 PM | Advancing Green Chemistry Education: The Process, Research and New Developments in Curricular Activities | San Diego Convention Center,听Room 5B |
| 2:00 PM - 6:00 PM | Green Methods & Syntheses | San Diego Convention Center,听Room 30E |
| 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM | Accelerating Sustainability: Green Chemistry & Hydrogen as Fuel, Poster Session | San Diego Convention Center,听Hall B2/C |
| Wednesday, March 26 | ||
| 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM | Advancing Green Chemistry Education: The Process, Research and New Developments in Curricular Activities | San Diego Convention Center, Room 5B |
| 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM | The Pursuit of Clean Water: PFAS Removal | San Diego Convention Center, Ballroom 20D |
| 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM | Environmental Justice: Community Engagement, Education and Action Through Green and Sustainable Chemistry and Chemical Engineering | San Diego Convention Center,听Hall B2/C |
| 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM | Water Soluble Polymer Symposia provided by P&G | San Diego Convention Center, Ballroom 20D |
| 2:00 PM - 6:00 PM | CO2 Conversion & Utilization-II: Electrochemical CO2 Conversion to Fuels and Valuable Chemicals: Advances in Electrocatalysts and Electrolyzers | San Diego Marriott Marquis,听Marriott Grand Ballroom, Section 10 |
| Thursday, March 27 | ||
| 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM | New Horizons in Cellulose and Renewable Materials: Cellulose and Biomass Functional Material | San Diego Convention Center, Room 24C |
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