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Products and solutions based on chemistry enrich our lives every day. They help to conserve resources, to produce healthy food and to improve people’s quality of life. But chemistry’s contribution is often not easy to see at first glance. With our Creating Chemistry magazine, we aim to show how chemistry helps to meet global challenges.

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Creating Chemistry Magazine 2023
Issue #12

Dear readers,

This 12th issue of Creating Chemistry portrays “doers” who are driving unconventional, but promising approaches to climate protection. Not all ideas will come to fruition, but I am convinced that we have to be bold and try out new things to resolutely counter climate change.

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A woman stands in the center of the picture and the components of the district economy are symbolically depicted as pictures around her.
From the ground up
Agriculture and deforestation have depleted the Earth’s terrestrial carbon stores. New ideas can protect them.
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Scientists examine a sample.
Life on a hot planet
The diverse effects of climate change are already apparent. What might happen if we don’t act now?
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Portrait of Tim Jackson
Energetic innovators
To succeed in reducing our emissions, low-carbon energy sources need to be much more accessible.
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The Global Seed Vault in Spitsbergen, Norway, shrouded in snow.
Are you keen to be green?
Dutch environmental psychologist Professor Linda Steg explains what motivates people to take climateconscious decisions.
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Collectively intelligent
Researchers are relying on the wisdom of crowds to tackle illnesses, such as that of little Kamiyah.
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Turning junk into jobs
No time to waste: In Lagos, Nigeria, Wecyclers is transforming waste into a profitable social enterprise.
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Many glass containers and test tubes with coloured liquids stand in front of a monitor on which scientific formulas can be seen.
A taste of progress
What culinary creations will we have melting in our mouths in the future? And how will these new varieties be able to provide improved flavor or combat climate change and waste? 
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Follow nature's example
Creating air-conditioning like termites or using water lilies to save people from floods – animals and plants often show us how to do things better. Here are some inventions inspired by ingenious flora and fauna around the world.
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Top view of the open print magazine Creating Chemistry 11
An extra layer for the climate
To limit the cost of heating and cooling, you need air – and that air needs to be enclosed. We demonstrate how insulating materials build on this.
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Breaking the chains?
In our section “From different perspectives,” experts assess the forces reshaping the world’s supply chains.
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Many glass containers and test tubes with coloured liquids stand in front of a monitor on which scientific formulas can be seen.
Enough is enough
The trend toward minimalism: How to practice the art of knowing how much is enough.
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The students are queuing to pick up their lunch from the Food4Education kitchen.
Chemistry of feelings
They seem to have us completely under control, can plunge us into inner chaos or let us feel like we are floating on cloud nine. We are talking about hormones. In words and images, we show what lies behind our great emotions.
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