Contributors: Helmholtz Zentrum für Umweltforschung = Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ); Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main; CATALAN INSTITUTE FOR WATER RESEACH GIRONA ESP; Partenaires IRSTEA; Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture (IRSTEA)-Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture (IRSTEA); Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas España = Spanish National Research Council Spain (CSIC); University of York York, UK; Environnements et Paléoenvironnements OCéaniques (EPOC); Observatoire aquitain des sciences de l'univers (OASU); Université Sciences et Technologies - Bordeaux 1 (UB)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Sciences et Technologies - Bordeaux 1 (UB)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE); Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS); Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche "Mario Negri" = Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research (IRCCS); Toxicological Center; University of Antwerp (UA)-Partenaires IRSTEA; Institut National de l'Environnement Industriel et des Risques (INERIS); Center for Applied Geoscience Tübingen (ZAG); Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen = University of Tübingen; Danmarks Tekniske Universitet = Technical University of Denmark (DTU); Moi University (MU); Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Nireas-International Water Research Center, University of Cyprus; RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR PESTICIDES AND WATER UNIVERSITY JAUME I ESP; Research Centre for Toxic Compounds in the Environment Brno (RECETOX / MUNI); Faculty of Science Brno (SCI / MUNI); Masaryk University Brno (MUNI)-Masaryk University Brno (MUNI); Swiss Federal Insitute of Aquatic Science and Technology Dübendorf (EAWAG); Institute of Biogeochemistry and Pollutant Dynamics ETH Zürich (IBP); Department of Environmental Systems Science ETH Zürich (D-USYS); Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich (ETH Zürich)-Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich (ETH Zürich); RWTH Aachen University = Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen (RWTH Aachen); University of Bath Bath; School of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of New South Wales; Centre for Pollution Research and Policy, Department of Life Sciences, Brunel University London; Leuphana University of Lüneburg; The French Water Academy; Department Environment & Health, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; European Universities of the Seas, Universidad de Cádiz; Institute of Chemistry, UNICAMP; Ecologie fonctionnelle et écotoxicologie des agroécosystèmes (ECOSYS); AgroParisTech-Université Paris-Saclay-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE); Institute for Nanotechnology and Water Sustainability (iNanoWS), College of science, Engineering and Technology (CSET), University of South Africa; National Institute for Public Health and the Environment Bilthoven (RIVM); Department of Environmental Science, Radbound University Nijmegen; Norwegian Institute for Water Research (NIVA); Stanford University; Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of South Carolina; Norwegian Institute for Air Research (NILU); Université du Luxembourg = University of Luxembourg = Universität Luxemburg (uni.lu); Institute for Social-Ecological Research (ISOE); Environmental Institute Kos; Environmental Safety Center, Tokyo University of Science; Nanyang Technological University Singapour (NTU); University of Brasilia Brazil (UnB); Faculty of Sciences Novi Sad; University of Novi Sad; The University of Queensland (UQ All campuses : Brisbane, Dutton Park Gatton, Herston, St Lucia and other locations ); Faculty of Technology, UNICAMP; VNU Key Laboratory of Analytical Technology for Environmental Quality, Vietnam National University; National University of Singapore (NUS); Centre of Chemical Safety and Risks, School of the Environment, Nanjing University
نبذة مختصرة : International audience ; 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.
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