MARCH 12, 2025 | Sustainable Wednesday
08:00-10:00
Session 5: Sustainability strategies and initiatives in the EU
Chair
20’
Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability – the aims and key priorities
Christian Gründling, FCIO
20’
The green deal and the clean industrial deal - an industry view
20’
Impact of the EU Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability on companies in The Americas
20’
Essential use concept – an analysis
Sonja Haider, ChemSec
20’
Corporate Sustainability Reporting and Corporate Sustainability Due Dilligence Directives – what needs to be done
20’
EU Taxonomy regulation and delegated acts, , including the green claim regulation - what companies need to prepare for
10:00-10:15
Q&A
10:15-10:45
Coffee break
10:45-12:45
Session 6: Product sustainability assessment - the substitution to safer alternatives
Chair
20’
Product Sustainability Assessment - a global approach
20’
EPA's Safer choice program
20’
EU policy to support substitution
20’
TURI's substitution planners approach
Baskut Tuncak, TURI
20’
Safer Materials Strategy
Beth Uhlhorn, Dow
20’
Future-Proof Profits: The Power of Safer Alternatives
Jerker Ligthart, ChemSec
12:45-13:00
Q&A
13:00-14:00
Lunch break
14:00–15:40
Session 7: Sustainability ambitions and consequences in the value chain
Chair
20’
Global Framework on Chemicals – For a Planet Free of Harm from Chemicals and Waste
20’
Transition pathway European chemicals industry as the sustainable motor for the green and digital transformation
20’
Advanced Recycling
NN*, ExxonMobil
20’
Global plastic treaty
Jean-Cyril Walker, Keller and Heckman
20’
How do investors think about chemicals management
15:40-16:00
Q&A
16:00-16:30
Coffee break
16:30-18:30
Session 8: Technological developments supporting sustainability implementation
Chair
20’
How can QR codes, blockchain technology and Artificial Intelligence enhance transparency and sustainability in the value chain
Michael Siebold, Merck
20’
Self-Driving Laboratories for Chemistry and Materials Science
Melissa Schisler, Dow
20’
The Safe and Sustainable by Design (SSbD) EU framework, opportunities for innovation
20’
Safe and sustainable by design – implementation by industry
20’
Ecodesign for sustainable products (ESPR), including a digital product passport
20’
Digital Product Passports – a multi tool for companies
18:30-18:45
Q&A
18:45
End of Sessions - Day 2