NECS 2025 comprises ambient, indoor and workplace environments with main focus on environmental chemistry (EC) challenges in the Arctic and Northern European hemisphere.

Monitoring

  • Analytical methods
  • Water, air, soil and biota
  • Arctic environments
  • Norwegian cases:
  • The Oslo Fjord: Challenges and perspectives
  • Coast Zone Management (harbours, aquaculture, fisheries, shipping, tourism)

Assessments

  • Effects of changing climate and land-use
  • Changes in long-range transport of pollutants
  • Plastic pollution and effects
  • Developments in biogeochemistry and environmental chemistry
  • Ecotoxicology and biomarkers

Technologies

  • Treatment processes
  • Drinking water and waste management and recycling
  • Solid waste and e-waste (remediation & mitigation)
  • Mining operations and managements of tailings and effluents

Sustainability: Challenges and approaches

  • Life-cycle analysis
  • Circular economy
  • Green chemistry and green technologies

Environmental and occupational health

  • Human biomonitoring
  • Exposure and risk assessment

Emerging issues

  • Non-target, microplastics and chemicals of emerging concern
  • Impact of climate change on environmental chemistry