| Sectors | Examples of opportunities for management and innovation |
| Agriculture and food | Scale up Integrated Pest Management (IPM) and agroecological approaches, including development and use of non-chemical alternatives and other beneficial agricultural practices |
| Health | Sound management of pharmaceuticals and disinfectants that contribute to antimicrobial resistance |
| Energy | improve technologies using resource-efficient, sustainable materials when de-carbonizing the energy sector |
| infrastructure | Reduce raw material use and waste generation via advanced materials without creating future legacies |
| Industry | Ensure that chemical-intensive industries rely on best available techniques and best environmental practices |
| Housing | Reduce indoor air pollution through safer insulation and replace building materials of concern (e.g. asbestos) |
| Transport | Advance clean mobility, for example based on sustainable chemistry solutions for batteries |
| Tourism | Adopt practices to reduce the chemical footprint of tourism services |
| Education | Mainstream green and sustainable chemistry into relevant curricula |
| Finance | Enhance use of green and sustainable chemistry metrics as criteria in investment |
| Mining | While foremost ensuring sound management of mine tailings, tailings are reused and returned to the economy to the greatest possible extent possible |