TY - JOUR
T1 - One planet
T2 - one health. A call to support the initiative on a global science–policy body on chemicals and waste
AU - Brack, Werner
AU - Barcelo Culleres, Damia
AU - Boxall, Alistair B.A.
AU - Budzinski, Hélène
AU - Castiglioni, Sara
AU - Covaci, Adrian
AU - Dulio, Valeria
AU - Escher, Beate I.
AU - Fantke, Peter
AU - Kandie, Faith
AU - Fatta-Kassinos, Despo
AU - Hernández, Félix J.
AU - Hilscherová, Klara
AU - Hollender, Juliane
AU - Hollert, Henner
AU - Jahnke, Annika
AU - Kasprzyk-Hordern, Barbara
AU - Khan, Stuart J.
AU - Kortenkamp, Andreas
AU - Kümmerer, Klaus
AU - Lalonde, Brice
AU - Lamoree, Marja H.
AU - Levi, Yves
AU - Lara Martín, Pablo Antonio
AU - Montagner, Cassiana C.
AU - Mougin, Christian
AU - Msagati, Titus
AU - Oehlmann, Jörg
AU - Posthuma, Leo
AU - Reid, Malcolm
AU - Reinhard, Martin
AU - Richardson, Susan D.
AU - Rostkowski, Pawel
AU - Schymanski, Emma
AU - Schneider, Flurina
AU - Slobodnik, Jaroslav
AU - Shibata, Yasuyuki
AU - Snyder, Shane Allen
AU - Fabriz Sodré, Fernando
AU - Teodorovic, Ivana
AU - Thomas, Kevin V.
AU - Umbuzeiro, Gisela A.
AU - Viet, Pham Hung
AU - Yew-Hoong, Karina Gin
AU - Zhang, Xiaowei
AU - Zuccato, Ettore
N1 - Funding Information:
All authors thank multiple funding agencies and their institutes for long-term support in fundamental and applied research on chemical pollution.
PY - 2022/3/8
Y1 - 2022/3/8
N2 - The chemical pollution crisis severely threatens human and environmental health globally. To tackle this challenge the establishment of an overarching international science–policy body has recently been suggested. We strongly support this initiative based on the awareness that humanity has already likely left the safe operating space within planetary boundaries for novel entities including chemical pollution. Immediate action is essential and needs to be informed by sound scientific knowledge and data compiled and critically evaluated by an overarching science–policy interface body. Major challenges for such a body are (i) to foster global knowledge production on exposure, impacts and governance going beyond data-rich regions (e.g., Europe and North America), (ii) to cover the entirety of hazardous chemicals, mixtures and wastes, (iii) to follow a one-health perspective considering the risks posed by chemicals and waste on ecosystem and human health, and (iv) to strive for solution-oriented assessments based on systems thinking. Based on multiple evidence on urgent action on a global scale, we call scientists and practitioners to mobilize their scientific networks and to intensify science–policy interaction with national governments to support the negotiations on the establishment of an intergovernmental body based on scientific knowledge explaining the anticipated benefit for human and environmental health.
AB - The chemical pollution crisis severely threatens human and environmental health globally. To tackle this challenge the establishment of an overarching international science–policy body has recently been suggested. We strongly support this initiative based on the awareness that humanity has already likely left the safe operating space within planetary boundaries for novel entities including chemical pollution. Immediate action is essential and needs to be informed by sound scientific knowledge and data compiled and critically evaluated by an overarching science–policy interface body. Major challenges for such a body are (i) to foster global knowledge production on exposure, impacts and governance going beyond data-rich regions (e.g., Europe and North America), (ii) to cover the entirety of hazardous chemicals, mixtures and wastes, (iii) to follow a one-health perspective considering the risks posed by chemicals and waste on ecosystem and human health, and (iv) to strive for solution-oriented assessments based on systems thinking. Based on multiple evidence on urgent action on a global scale, we call scientists and practitioners to mobilize their scientific networks and to intensify science–policy interaction with national governments to support the negotiations on the establishment of an intergovernmental body based on scientific knowledge explaining the anticipated benefit for human and environmental health.
KW - Chemical pollution
KW - One-health perspective
KW - Planetary boundaries
KW - Science–policy body on chemicals
KW - Systems thinking
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U2 - 10.1186/s12302-022-00602-6
DO - 10.1186/s12302-022-00602-6
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85126203912
SN - 2190-4707
VL - 34
JO - Environmental Sciences Europe
JF - Environmental Sciences Europe
IS - 1
M1 - 21
ER -