Abstract
THE PRESIDENTS OF SIX leading chemical societies, representing nearly 300,000 members, pledged last week at a meeting in Paris to work together to promote global sustainable development, demand responsible use of resources, and ensure that next generation of scientists protects and maintains well-being of Earth and its inhabitants. The presidents of American Chemical Society, Royal Society of Chemistry, Chemical Society of Japan, German Chemical Society, French Chemical Society, and Royal Netherlands Chemical Society developed and signed statement because the need to address these intertwined issues is urgent, and chemistry is absolutely essential to development of solutions, they wrote. The so-called C6 chemical societies have been meeting about once every two years for past eight years. Sustainability clearly is topic that we all felt exceptionally strongly about, said Catherine T. Hunt, ACS president. Earth's systems are facing complex and imminent...
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