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The
fourth
International Conference on Environmental
Management, Engineering, Planning and
Economics (CEMEPE 2013) & SECOTOX
Conference will be held Mykonos island,
Greece, June 24 to 28, 2013
Webpage:http://www.cemepe4.prd.uth.gr/
The third International
Symposium on Green Chemistry for Environment,
Health and Development was held
in Skiathos island, Greece, on October
3 to 5, 2012.
Second International
Symposium on Green Chemistry for Environment
and Health in Mykonos, Greece
After the first symposium on Green Chemistry
for Environment and Health in Munich, Germany,
in September 2008, the second symposium
took place on Mykonos island in Greece
from September 27 until 29, 2010. It was
organized by SECOTOX (Society of Ecotoxicology
and Environmental Safety) together with
the Department of Planning and Regional
Development of the School of Engineering
of the University of Thessaly, Greece,
and with the Department of Chemical Engineering
of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
Prof. A. Kungolos from University of Thessaly,
the head of the organizing committee took
great care for the success of this symposium
and he had the help of several members
of the international organizing committee
from other European countries.
A total of 138 manuscripts covering all
aspects of green chemistry from groups
of all over the world were presented. There
was a reasonable balance between groups
from academia and industry. The 13 topics
were arranged in analogy to the last symposium.
The topic entitled “Environmentally Benign
Processes and Products” dominated the contributions
with 30 papers, followed by “Chemicals,
Health and Ecotoxicology ” with 21 papers
and “Industry,-Environment and Health”
with 17 papers. The topic ”Green Catalysis
and Biocatalysis” showed with 14 papers
still its importance followed by the topic
“Renewable Resources” with 13 papers. But
some other topics were also presented like
“Environmental Quality and Climate Stability
through Chemistry” (7 papers), followed
by “Environmental Concern, Ethics and Policies”
(5 papers) and “Environmental Legislation
and Policy" (4 papers) along with
“Green Consumer Products-Green Solvents
(4 papers). Finally two more topics “REACH
Directive and EU Guidelines for Industrial
Chemicals” and “Green Pharmacy” should
be mentioned, each with two contributions.
Green chemistry has become a new and important
subject in all fields of environmental
sciences, because of its general concepts
and aims to improve the quality of the
local and global environment by product/process-integrated
measures, which must substitute the old
end-of-pipe solutions for environmental
protection. This concept stimulated and
united all contributors of this symposium
and made the meeting, together with the
Greek sun, a very successful event.
The symposium showed that incorporation
of concepts of toxicology and ecotoxicology
is essential for the goals of green chemistry.
A. Kungolos, D. Lenoir, K.-W. Schramm
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