Profs. Matt Rosseinsky and Charlotte Williams were part of the organising committee for the Royal Society event ‘Green carbon for the chemical industry of the future’, held 11-12 December 2023 in London. Dr. Ian Howell gave a talk titled ‘Why we need non-fossil carbon for the chemical industry: The hidden footprint of consumer goods’ at the event. The talk explored why ingredients are such an important contributor to Unilever’s and others’ GHG footprint and why green renewable carbon-based solutions are crucial to address the footprint of consumer products, the ways they can do this, and the challenges involved in doing this at scale. The meeting was attended by Professor Paul Monks, Chief Scientific Advisor Department of Energy Security and Net Zero, who was a member of the panel in the final discussion session.
Watch talks from the event here:
Meeting papers will be published in a future issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A.
