Kirsten Rosselot is a chemical engineer and has had her own consulting firm since 1995. She helps her clients understand and improve their environmental impact by providing them with the tools they need to identify the products, processes, or substances that are likely to be the most appropriate focus for improvement efforts. For many years, she was a regular member of technical peer review panels for EPA scholarships and SBIR grants. She taught an upper division/graduate student elective on pollution prevention in the chemical engineering department at California State University, Long Beach for two years and has co-authored many handbooks, textbooks, and other teaching and outreach materials. Today she's going to talk about how important it is to think in terms of systems when bonding the chemical enterprise to decarbonization. This is her very first ACS conference and she's very pleased to be here.