The Royal Society of Chemistry has launched three new journals themed around sustainability, as part of its ongoing commitment to support the chemical sciences in facing up to global sustainability challenges.
Today’s global challenges range from plastics polluting the oceans, to the urgent need to find more sustainable resources. But where will new solutions come from? How can we achieve global collaboration to address the big issues? And where can the chemical sciences deliver the biggest impacts?
The new journals, RSC Sustainability, Sustainable Food Technology, and EES Catalysis aim to answer these pressing questions from a range of perspectives, bolstering the RCS’s already sizeable suite of sustainability-focused journals. All the new journals are gold open access and the RSC will be covering all article processing charges (APCs) until mid-2025 - enabling scientists and institutions from around the world to share research at no charge.
RSC Sustainability is an inclusive and interdisciplinary journal that welcomes research from all subject areas, dedicated to solving sustainability challenges for a better, greener future.
Sustainable Food Technology seeks answers to big questions such as how to ensure global food security and end world hunger in an era of a global population of nearly 8 billion, as well as how to produce food more sustainably. The new journal focuses on food engineering and technologies, and is a sister journal to the established Food & Function, which publishes high-quality research on food and the functions of food in relation to health.
EES Catalysis will publish high-quality research on energy and environmental catalysis, and is the latest addition to the Energy & Environmental Science series of journals. As a multidisciplinary platform, it will cover catalysis across chemistry, materials science, engineering, and beyond.
The RSC is a signatory to the SDG Publishers Compact, which aims to accelerate progress to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030. The aims of EES Catalysis specifically align with the UN’s Sustainable Development Goal 7 – to ensure access to affordable, reliable, and modern energy for all.
The announcement comes as part of the RSC’s wider sustainability programme, which encompasses policy, education, research, and more. Recent activities include the Polymers in Liquid Formulations report – which raises awareness of the potential environmental impacts of products such as shampoo, detergent, and paint, and the Precious Elements campaign, which highlighted the precious elements contained in everyday technology, and called for more sustainable manufacturing and better large scale recycling for these products.
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