1.3 – Environment and decarbonisation

Pillar 1: Technologies for sustainable growth

Session 1.3 – Environment and decarbonisation

31 October 2018, 11:00-12:00, PLENARY room

The session will address how innovative materials and industrial processes can strengthen the fight against pollution and avoid the most dangerous effects of climate change, helping to match the commitments of COP21. Success stories of technologies for environmental remediation (including air and soil) will be used as examples of a path towards sustainable growth reducing harmful effects on human health.

Please find below the speakers (in alphabetical order), who will contribute to this session:

• Circulating materials
  Anne-Chloé Devic, European Chemical Industry Council
• Transition towards a sustainable chemistry and clean technology: use of CO2 as alternative feedstock
  Ludo Diels, VITO
• New bioremediation approach for soils and sediments
  Grazia Masciandaro, CNR
• How to reduce pollution in cities using a stand-alone traffic system based in modular construction kits made of UHP Concrete
  Lutz Sparowitz, TU Graz and Wörle Sparowitz Ingenieure
• Horizon Prize on materials for clean air
  t.b.c.

Moderator: Anne-Chloé Devic, European Chemical Industry Council

Rapporteur: Monika Marjanovic