Green Chemistry Blog

15-17 November 2010
UN Economic Commisssion for Africa
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Africa is vastly abundant in natural resources and the richness offers valuable opportunities to pursue novel routes to sustainable processes and products. However, the concept of Green Chemistry for Sustainability is still at its infancy in most African countries. 

Focusing on the search for such routes, and expanding on their benefits, is an exciting challenge that can render African countries extremely competitive at international levels. Sustainable chemistry will contribute to the spreading of knowledge in such a frontier area of chemistry.

About the conference

Sessions at the conference will include:

• catalysis and biocatalysis 
• renewable feedstocks/ energy 
• green solvents 
• metrics 
• product design       

Confirmed Speakers

• Paul Anastas, Yale University, USA 
• Vanderlan Bolzani, Sao Paulo State University, Brazil  
• Colin Brennan, Syngenta, UK 
• Erick Carreira, ETH Zurich, Switzerland 
• Terry Collins, Carnegie Mellon University, USA 
• Bob Crawford, Unilever, UK  
• Buxing Han, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China  
• Walter Leitner, ITMC-RWTH, Germany 
• Goverdhan Mehta, Bangalore, India 
• Romeela Mohee, University of Mauritius, Madagascar 
• Egid Mubofu, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania 
• David Phillips, Imperial College, UK  
• John Pickett, Rothamsted Research, UK 
• Jay Siegel, University of Zurich, Switzerland         

Scientific Committee

• Nigist Asfaw, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia 
• Yonas Chebude, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia 
• John Clough, Syngenta, UK 
• Neil Coville, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa  
• Lisa Hall, University of Cambridge, UK 
• Pete Licence, The University of Nottingham, UK 
• Jacob Midiwo, University of Nairobi, Kenya 
• Alejandra Palermo, RSC, UK 
• Martyn Poliakoff, The University of Nottingham, UK 
• Sarah Ruthven, Green Chemistry Editor, RSC, UK 
• Tom Welton, Imperial College, UK        

Key Dates

• Deadline for abstract submission: 1 October 2010 
• Early bird registration until: 30 September 2010      

Read more about this conference: http://www.rsc.org/ConferencesAndEvents/RSCEvents/International/Africa/GreenChem/Index.asp