Engineering a Sustainable World – The Chemical Engineering Challenge

Synopsis

The United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal 3 is good health and well-being. Within that goal, key 2030 targets are to end preventable deaths in children under 5, end epidemics of common and neglected diseases and significantly improve mortality from non-communicable diseases. The pharmaceutical industry will play a major role in enabling that goal and chemical engineers, in turn, enable the industry to scale up production and run plants in a safe, efficient and – this is increasingly important – sustainable way.

“Engineering a Sustainable World – the chemical engineering challenge”, published by the Institution of Chemical Engineers this year, sets out how the profession will contribute to addressing the SDGs. Peter Iles-Smith, one of the advisors contributing to this document, will set out the challenge for the pharmaceuticals industry, how chemical engineering contribute to solving it, and what changes, innovations and skills we need to make it happen.