About Global Challenges/Chemistry Solutions

Global Challenges/Chemistry Solutions is a series of podcasts describing some of the 21st Century’s most daunting problems, and how cutting-edge research in chemistry matters in the quest for solutions. This sweeping panorama of global challenges includes dilemmas such as providing a hungry, thirsty world with ample supplies of safe food and clean water; developing alternatives to petroleum to fuel society; preserving the environment and assuring a sustainable future for our children; and improving human health.

2008 Final Report

ACS issued a Final Report on the 2008 edition
of the Global Challenges project at a press
briefing at the National Press Club. A webcast
of the press briefing can be viewed at
www.visualwebcaster.com/american-chemical-
society . A press release on the briefing is available.
The Final Report — 30,000 words of text
based on input from more than 125 specialists —
also is available in an 80-page full-color book.
An easy-to-read digital version can be accessed.

Scientists discuss water safety and other water
quality issues at a briefing on the American
Chemical Society’s Global Challenges / Chemistry
Solutions Final Report. The briefing was held at
the National Press Building Broadcast Center.
From left: Charles Haas, Drexel University; William
Ball, Johns Hopkins University, and Marc Edwards,
Virginia Tech University.
Credit: Sam Hurd.

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