Sessions

How can the chemical industry stay competitive while operating within planetary boundaries?

Session 2 addresses the transition from today’s process landscape to a new chemicals industry.

This session explores how effective governance can enable the chemical industry’s sustainability transformation while maintaining competitiveness.

The breakout session invites representatives from chemical industry and downstream sectors to discuss, how innovation can be facilitated along value chains, breaking up traditional supplier – customer roles towards innovation partnerships.

Transformation requires strong alliances between the real economy and the financial sector. We want to discuss how transformation partnerships and transition plans ensure that industry, financial sector and politics stay on track to our vision of a sustainable chemical industry.

Plastics are the most versatile building blocks of the modern world. To make plastics truly future-proof we will discuss, how the principles of the circular economy can be applied to the plastics value chain and make plastics sustainable for the current century.

The breakout session aims to bring together experts from policy, research, and industry practice to discuss current developments and practical experiences related to sustainable chemicals management and circularity based on findings in the electronics sector.

Can cutting red tape accelerate sustainability—or risk undermining it? This session explores a progressive approach to debureaucratization that is coherent, efficient, transparent and effective.

Zero Pollution is one of the key elements of the long-term vision for the European chemicals sector and consecutive value chains. While this vision might be broadly shared, perspectives on what “Zero Pollution” means in practice can differ across stakeholder groups. This exchange is intended to provide a constructive and open space to explore perspectives, foster mutual understanding, and identify

Join the conference finale as we distill two days of insights into clear action paths and next steps.