An International Year of Chemistry legacy project to highlight connections between chemistry and sustainability is described. The project consists of nine critically reviewed, interactive, Web-based modules (digital learning objects) at the Web site to help students visualize and understand the underlying science of climate change while making connections to chemistry curriculum. The target audiences are (a) teachers and students at the secondary and first-year tertiary levels and (b) chemistry professionals. This communication summarizes one of the invited papers to the ConfChem online conference A Virtual Colloquium to Sustain and Celebrate IYC 2011 Initiatives in Global Chemical Education held from May 18 to June 28, 2012 and jointly hosted by the ACS DivCHED Committee on Computers in Chemical Education and the IUPAC Committee on Chemistry Education.

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