Policy resources

This brief was developed to address one of the core challenges identified in the project: 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. This brief suggests a systems-first, tools-second 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).

A technical support document for the PollinERA Policy brief “Reforming EU chemical risk assessment: from regulatory bottlenecks to systems solution