The safe-and-sustainable-by-design concept: innovating towards a more sustainable future

Lya G. Soeteman-Hernández; Christina Apel; Bernd Nowack; Akshat Sudheshwar; Claudia Som; Elina Huttunen-Saarivirta; Anna  Tenhunen-Lunkka; Johanna Scheper; Andreas  Falk; Eugenia Valsami-Jones; Cris Rocca; Maurice Brennan; Amaya Igartua; Gemma Mendoza; Klara Midander; Emma Strömberg; Klaus Kümmerer

doi:10.1007/s42398-024-00324-w

The safe-and-sustainable-by-design concept: innovating towards a more sustainable future

Lya G. Soeteman-Hernández
, Christina Apel
, Bernd Nowack
, Akshat Sudheshwar
, Claudia Som
, Elina Huttunen-Saarivirta
, Anna Tenhunen-Lunkka
, Johanna Scheper
, Andreas Falk
, Eugenia Valsami-Jones
, Cris Rocca
, Maurice Brennan
, Amaya Igartua
, Gemma Mendoza
, Klara Midander
, Emma Strömberg
, Klaus Kümmerer^*

^*Corresponding author for this work

Professorship of Sustainable Chemistry and Material Resources

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9 Citations (Scopus)

Abstract

Safe-and-Sustainable-by-Design (SSbD) is a new concept proposed by the European Commission to support the urgent need to transition towards a more preventive and proactive approach in chemical and material innovation which supports a more sustainable future and in meeting the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. SSbD provides orientation and guidance by taking a system approach. SSbD building blocks were developed: regenerative corporate and societal strategic needs (considering service and function), risk and sustainability governance, competencies, and data management. This viewpoint brings these building blocks together in a holistic way to create an innovation landscape ensuring safer and more sustainable chemicals, materials, production processes and products in science, technology, and industry; starting from ‘design’ and that is fit for supporting a sustainable future.

Original language	English
Journal	Environmental Sustainability
Volume	7
Issue number	3
Pages (from-to)	363-368
Number of pages	6
ISSN	2523-8922
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s42398-024-00324-w
Publication status	Published - 24.09.2024

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Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2024.

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 7 Affordable and Clean Energy

Research areas and keywords

Chemistry
Innovation
Building blocks
Competencies
Corporate strategy
Data management
Governance
Lifecycle thinking
‘By-design’

ASJC Scopus Subject Areas

General Agricultural and Biological Sciences
General Environmental Science
Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology
Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

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Soeteman-Hernández, L. G., Apel, C., Nowack, B., Sudheshwar, A., Som, C., Huttunen-Saarivirta, E., Tenhunen-Lunkka, A., Scheper, J., Falk, A., Valsami-Jones, E., Rocca, C., Brennan, M., Igartua, A., Mendoza, G., Midander, K., Strömberg, E., & Kümmerer, K. (2024). The safe-and-sustainable-by-design concept: innovating towards a more sustainable future. Environmental Sustainability, 7(3), 363-368. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42398-024-00324-w

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The safe-and-sustainable-by-design concept: innovating towards a more sustainable future

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