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. Publisher Copyright: © 2022, The Author(s).

PY - 2022/12/1

Y1 - 2022/12/1

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

KW - Chemistry

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U2 - 10.1186/s12302-022-00602-6

DO - 10.1186/s12302-022-00602-6

M3 - Comments / Debate / Reports

C2 - 35281760

AN - SCOPUS:85126203912

VL - 34

JO - Environmental Sciences Europe

JF - Environmental Sciences Europe

SN - 0934-3504

IS - 1

M1 - 21

ER -