Committee on Environment and Sustainability

What We Do The Committee enhances awareness and response to challenges to sustainability for the chemical community. Sustainability is seen as providing for the environmental and human health and economic and societal needs of today without compromising the progress and success of future generations. It addresses the major challenges of energy, food for a growing population, and clean water. The Committee, as specifies under ACS’s charter, must also monitor current and emerging environmental problems, research environmental chemistry issues, and develop environmental position statements for ACS. Vision A sustainable world enabled through the sustainable practice and use of chemistry. Mission Advance sustainability thinking and practice across ACS and society for the benefit of earth and its people. Goal 1: Engage researchers, industry decision makers, and other stakeholders to incorporate sustainability into the practice and use of chemistry. Goal 2: Equip ACS leaders and members, and other advocates to be influential voices about policies in sustainable chemistry via development and dissemination of appropriate tools for the relevant audiences. Goal 3: Engage networks of chemists and stakeholders to advance sustainability education and communication.