Relationship between Chemicals Production And The World's Sustainable Development Pathways

Chemicals play an important role in various industries around the world, but they also pose potential risks to the environment and human health. Therefore, how to realize environmental protection and sustainable development of chemicals management while ensuring social development has become an important issue.

1. Impact of chemicals on the environment

Chemicals may pollute the environment and affect sustainable development during production, use and disposal. For example, certain chemicals may release toxic and harmful gases, causing atmospheric pollution; chemical leakage or unreasonable discharge may pollute water bodies, affecting aquatic organisms and the safety of human water use; and long-term use of certain chemicals may lead to soil contamination, destroying soil ecology and affecting the growth of crops. This also means that as a chemical manufacturer must be professional enough.

2, good environmental protection measures in chemical management

In order to achieve sustainable development, it is necessary for professional production plants to adopt a series of environmental protection measures in chemical management. These include, but are not limited to: strict chemical access system, restricting or banning highly polluting and risky chemicals from entering the market; promoting environmentally friendly alternatives, encouraging the research, development and use of environmentally friendly, low-toxicity chemical substitutes; strengthening producer responsibility, requiring chemical producers to take on the environmental responsibility for the whole life cycle of their products; implementing green supply chain management, carrying out environmental protection assessments of suppliers, and ensuring that the raw materials and components purchased meet environmental protection requirements; implementing cleaner production. parts and components meet environmental requirements; implement cleaner production, adopt advanced production processes and technologies, and reduce resource consumption and pollutant emissions in the production process; and strengthen remediation of contaminated sites by remediating and treating sites contaminated by chemicals and restoring the ecological functions of soils and water bodies1.

3. Adhere to the sustainable development strategy in chemicals management

Sustainable development emphasizes meeting current needs without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs. Achieving sustainable development in chemicals management requires selecting renewable, low-toxicity or non-toxic raw materials to reduce environmental risks in the production of chemicals; adopting non-toxic and non-hazardous raw materials to design high-efficiency, low-energy and low-emission synthetic methods to improve atomic utilization and reduce waste generation; optimizing synthetic routes, using green catalytic technologies such as biocatalysis and photocatalysis, lowering reaction temperatures and pressures, and improving reaction selectivity1.

4. Chemicals management and international conventions and regulations

Strengthening chemicals management is also a requirement to fulfill international conventions and regulations. For example, international conventions such as the Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade require countries to comply with and implement corresponding chemical management measures.

5. Future Direction of Development

In the future, chemicals management will pay more attention to scientific and technological innovation and the application of intelligent regulatory means to improve management efficiency and precision. Strengthen international cooperation and exchange, and jointly address global chemicals management challenges. Sustainable development has become a common goal of countries around the world, involving energy, climate, biodiversity and other areas. The impact of chemicals management on sustainable development is a long-term and comprehensive process that requires the joint efforts of governments, enterprises and the public.

In summary, chemicals and sustainable development are closely related. There is a greater need for professionals in the chemicals industry to reduce and avoid the harm caused by chemicals to human health and the environment while promoting sustainable development through effective chemicals management measures. This requires factories to actively adopt environmental protection measures in their daily work and promote the development of green chemistry and circular economy in order to realize the coordinated development of economy, society and environment.

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