Time of change
As the world said farewell to 2020, there was a rash of events involving chemistry, apart from the final closure of the Brexit saga. Read this and more exciting chemistry-related articles in C&I magazine.
Energy futures
Energy has not escaped the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020. The International Energy Agency (IEA) has described it as ‘a tumultuous year for the global energy system. The crisis has caused more disruption than any other event in recent history, leaving lasting scars for years to come. Read the C&I article.
Post-Brexit & REACH
As 2020 slowly winds down, and the world continues to struggle with the on-going Covid pandemic, in the UK, another deadline is looming – the end of the transition period and its final departure from the EU. Read more in C&I Magazine.
Global impact
While the UK chemical industry appeared moderately optimistic about the future in late August 2020 (C&I, 2020, 84, 9, 4), the picture was not quite so positive in the EU, according to the most recent report from Cefic, the European Chemical Industry Council.
UK chemicals recover?
Health and the economic situation remain top of everyone’s agenda while the Covid-19 pandemic seems to surge and retreat in countries around the world on an almost daily basis. In most cases, the news revolves around lost sales and jobs, and calls for government aid to ride out the storm.
Be prepared
The famous Scout motto continues to ring true today, and is perhaps even more relevant. And it certainly should not be ignored despite other concerns about where and from whom it originated.
Back in the news
While carbon capture and storage (CCS) is not considered to be a major factor in meeting the world’s 2050 zero-carbon target, it can still have a significant impact.
After Covid
Will the Covid-19 pandemic bring about major global changes? Many people are asking this question with regard to everything from working practices, for example, is the day of the office building over as a result of IT, through to the potential end of fossil fuel usage for transportation and energy generation.
Different future
While the world is in virtual lockdown due to the coronavirus Covid-19, some observers are desperately looking for any welcome signs of relief from the pandemic. Whether it is the reversing of the number of deaths as the current wave passes through the population as appears to have happened in China, and may be happening in Italy, or another possible impact.
Health scare
Every winter there is a global influenza pandemic, infecting hundreds of millions of people and killing several hundreds of thousands – with an average of thousands of deaths in the UK alone. For winter 2020, however, there has been something extra – the coronavirus Covid-19 – and the world has literally ‘caught a cold’.