As humanity improves its standard of living, the demand for energy, housing, transportation, agricultural, and industrial products increases as well. However, higher rates of production go hand-in-hand with higher pollution rates which can lead to global climate change. New technical solutions are required to address this problem. The objective of this symposium is to provide an international forum to review ceramic technologies that can be applied in addressing global challenges related to clean air and water. Symposium will focus on ceramic technologies as enablers for (i) removal of pollutants that are already present in the environment, (ii) reduction or elimination of future pollution sources, and (iii) development of new processes and products with respect to efficiency, economy, ecology and reduced resource consumption. The scope of the symposium extends from recent scientific breakthroughs in materials, processing and systems design that help environmental protection to implementation of these improvements into already existing and new product applications.