The chemical industry has proven to be a highly innovative sector, able to reinvent itself. Since the nineteenth century, the development in chemical science has helped the industry to translate science into new products and processes. Today, the industry faces new challenges. Externalities were included in the economic models through regulatory obligation and sustainability is one of the major factors that spurs innovation. The need to create a low carbon industry will incentivize the development of a new chemical industry with new sources of raw materials and new products and processes from emerging technologies. Therefore, this symposium is devoted to the chemical industry of the 21st century, which follows the green chemistry principles, which will influence directly all manufacturing industry. New chemicals and materials will make possible a low carbon industry chain, reducing the carbon footprint of all economy, enabling also a bioeconomy.