RSC Sustainability: chemical education for global sustainability

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Chemical education for global sustainability

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Deadline: 31 December 2025
Guest Editors: Helen Drummond, North-West University
Marietjie Potgieter, University of Pretoria
Gildo Girotto Junior, UNICAMP
Juliana Vidal, Beyond Benign

Chemical education is key to tackling global sustainability challenges. This themed collection explores ways to integrate sustainability into chemistry curricula, professional development and beyond, ensuring inclusive, expert-led learning communities that support the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Topics for this collection may include, but are not limited to:

  • Articles describing new and innovative teaching activities, pedagogies, and laboratory experiments that address one or more of the UN SDGs for secondary and higher education.
  • Articles on scientific outreach focusing on sustainability and green chemistry topics.
  • Articles on inclusion and diversity with a focus on sustainability and green chemistry.
  • Articles exploring how chemistry education can integrate systems thinking and foster critical sustainability skills, ensuring productive collaboration with the chemical industry to support a sustainable future.
  • Perspectives on trends, initiatives and future directions of sustainable and green chemistry education.
  • Public perception and engagement towards sustainability and green chemistry.
  • Tutorial reviews and case studies on the implementation of best teaching, learning and research practices in sustainability and green chemistry towards achieving the UN SDGs.
  • Critical reviews discussing aspects of global sustainability, policy and knowledge frameworks.

If you are interested in contributing to this collection, please email the editorial office and we will set up a bespoke submission link for you to use to prepare your submission. Alternatively, you can quote SUChemEd25 in the ‘Comments to the Editor’ section when submitting your manuscript.

RSC Sustainability

Impact factor

4.9 (2024)

First decision time (all)

25 days

First decision time (peer)

40 days

Editor-in-chief

Tom Welton

Open access

Gold

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