The American Chemical Society (ACS) acknowledges the chemistry enterprise has a critical role to play in helping to mitigate climate change by developing green technologies to meet GHG reduction targets. Climate change threatens human health, leading to increased illness and mortality, increased incidence and distribution of vector-borne diseases, and decreased work force efficiency. Ecosystems and natural resources will continue to be stressed, affecting food and water availability, burdening economies, and societies. Extreme weather and flooding events will further impact infrastructure (such as energy supply and transportation systems) leading to disruption of supply chains, business and industry productivity, and military operations. The world will experience more extreme weather events which, coupled with sea level rise, will continue to cause coastal property damage and population displacement. Continued uncontrolled GHG emissions will compound the effects and risks of our altered climate state well into the future. Extreme weather and related events, such as floods, droughts, hurricanes, heatwaves, and wildfires, are already increasing in frequency and intensity, threatening ecosystems and humanity’s physical, social, and economic well-being. Atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations are increasing at a rate never observed before, primarily due to emissions from fossil fuel combustion. The Earth’s climate is changing in response to increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases (GHGs) and particulate matter in the atmosphere, and human activity is the primary cause. Sustainability & the Chemistry EnterpriseĬhemical Risk Assessment & Regulatory Decision MakingĬlimate change presents serious risk for civil society, business, and ecosystems.
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