A review of recent advances and the future of green chemistry in meeting the challenges of sustainability

Abstract

The quality of life and the very manner of living are dependent on chemical innovations. The chemical enterprise faces a dilemma: how to produce the goods and services on which the society depends in a manner that does not harm the environment. Finding creative ways to protect and improve the air we breathe, the water we drink and the land that sustains us while enhancing human progress is a challenge we must embrace. Green chemistry is playing an ever-increasing role in helping the chemical enterprise rise to these challenges.