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Professor Rodney Townsend Chairman, SusChem Board Head, EuCheMS Policy Working Group

Helsinki Chemicals Forum 2010 Contribution to Panel Discussion on “Green Chemistry – Solution Provider or Idealist’s Dream?. Professor Rodney Townsend Chairman, SusChem Board Head, EuCheMS Policy Working Group. My apologies for absence due to health problems.

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Professor Rodney Townsend Chairman, SusChem Board Head, EuCheMS Policy Working Group

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  1. Helsinki Chemicals Forum 2010 Contribution to Panel Discussion on “Green Chemistry – Solution Provider or Idealist’s Dream? Professor Rodney Townsend Chairman, SusChem Board Head, EuCheMS Policy Working Group My apologies for absence due to health problems

  2. Helsinki Chemicals Forum 2010 “Green Chemistry – Solution provider or Idealist’s Dream? • Consumers are confused by the terms “green”, “natural” and “organic” • and often think these are different terms for the same thing, which they are • not! This can be exploited by manufacturers and if this happens, this in turn • promotes scepticism of the need to be more sustainable in all that we do. • For this reason, it is important to educate everyone, including the general • public, to use a more appropriate term than “green”, which anyway has • strong political overtones in some EU Member States. • “Green” should be replaced by “sustainable” but it is not then “sustainable • chemistry” that should be used but rather “sustainable chemical • technologies”. There is after all no such thing as an intrinsically sustainable • chemical – it is the whole system, from cradle to grave, that matters.

  3. Helsinki Chemicals Forum 2010 “Green Chemistry – Solution provider or Idealist’s Dream? • This is turn emphasises the need for full partnership between industry, • technologist and government, with the latter in particular putting in place • the right drivers to enable change – not just fiscal, but also regulatory and • green public procurement (GPP). • However, it is critically important to recognise that fiscal, regulatory and • GPP drivers must be the appropriate ones, which set an agenda for beneficial • change without stifling innovation but rather by nurturing it. • A key framework therefore for movement towards innovative sustainable • chemical systems which encourage beneficial innovative products is that we • have commonly agreed life cycle analysis tools in place. These should also • be used as the benchmark for regulatory changes and for GPP.

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