PollinERA has released its first policy brief, marking a significant achievement in the project’s progress. The brief titled “Reforming EU chemical risk assessment: from regulatory bottlenecks to systems solution” addresses one of the project’s central objectives: The need to improve the way environmental risks to pollinators are currently assessed. The current approach works in isolation, overlooks cumulative impacts and bases decisions solely on binary “safe/unsafe” categories. What PollinERA-derived policy brief suggests is a systems-first, tools-decons approach that can deliver faster, cheaper and effective decision making by prioritising simulation and systems understanding before developing regulatory tools for Environmental Risk Assessment (ERA). 

“Reforming EU chemical risk assessment: from regulatory bottlenecks to systems solution” was created by project coordinator Christopher John Topping, and consortium members Noa Simon Delso, James Henty Williams, and Johan Axelman.

To ensure transparency and scientific robustness, the brief is accompanied by a technical evidence document, both of which are available via the Research Ideas and Outcomes (RIO) journaln PollinERA's open-access collection, and the PollinERA website.

This publication marks the beginning of the PollinERA Policy series, a collection of policy briefs that will be released throughout the project. 

Read the full policy brief here

Access the technical supporting document here.