CLEANUP 2026 tHEMES
The Themes for CleanUp 2026 are:
Emerging and recently emerged Contaminants
- Sources, Fate, and Transport in the Environment
- Characterisation, Detection, and Analytical Advance
- Policy, Regulation, and Global Challenges
- Emerging Frontiers and Cross-Cutting frontiers- Legacy contaminants, risks and contaminated sites
- Sources, persistence and environmental distribution
- Fate, transport and exposure pathways
- Characterisation and risk assessment methodologies
- Remediation technologies and sustainable management
- Policy, regulation and long-term stewardship- Lessons learned and future challenges
Climate Change and Contaminant Behaviour
- Climate Stressors and Environmental Risk: A Converging Crisis
- Sea water intrusion and salinisation impacts
- Climate-modulated contaminant dynamics
- Use of contaminant cells
- Geochemical shifts and remediation under climate variability
Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) and Modern Challenges
- Global sources, transport and bioaccumulation
- Exposure pathways and health impacts
- Monitoring and analytical advances
- Remediation and waste management strategies
- Regulatory, climate and circular economy challenges
- Emerging frontiers and integrative approaches
Planetary Boundaries and Environmental Exceedances
- Earth system limits and chemical pollution thresholds
- Drivers and hotspots of boundary transgression
- Ecosystem, biodiversity and health impacts
- Measurement, risk assessment and governance responses
- Mitigation, remediation and pathways back within safe limitsMixtures and Complexity in Environmental Systems
- Contaminant Mixtures: Synergistic Effects, Risk Assessment, and Regulatory Gaps
- Analytical challenges and modelling frameworks
- Real-world exposure scenarios
- Assessment tools to deal with the mixture
Chemical Bioavailability: Risk Assessment and One Health Perspective
- Foundations and controls of chemical bioavailability
- Measurement, modelling and exposure pathways
- Incorporation into risk assessment and remediation
- One Health implications and policy challenges
- Emerging frontiers and practical implementation
Case Studies and Lessons from the Field
- Site characterisation and risk-based decisions
- Remediation design, delivery and performance
- Regulatory and community engagement
- Sustainability, resilience and co-benefits
- Failures, successes and transferable lessons
- Waste Reuse and Risk: Navigating Contaminants in the Circular Economy and Sustainability- Agrichemical and Chemical Legacies: Managing Persistent Pollutants in
Productive Landscape
- Historical sources and persistence in agricultural soils
- Bioavailability, food-chain transfer and health risks
- Landscape-scale fate under climate and land-use change
- Risk-based management and remediation in productive systems
- Policy, stewardship and pathways to sustainable agriculture AI for Smarter Contaminated Site Assessment, Risk Characterisation and Remediation Decision-Making
- AI-Enabled Site Characterisation and Environmental Data Integration
- Predictive Fate, Transport and Exposure Modelling Using AI
- AI for Risk Characterisation and Regulatory Decision Support
- Intelligent Selection and Optimisation of Remediation Technologies
- Robotics, Automation and Smart Remediation Monitoring
- Ethics, Transparency and Governance of AI in Environmental Management
- Case Studies Demonstrating Practical Impact