European Policy Workshop: “Precaution for responsible innovation”
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Online
BeeCaution seminar on the role of the precautionary principle in chemicals regulation
Bergen, Norway
On January 18th 2022, the Precautionary Principle in chemicals regulation was discussed in an online seminar with academics and stakeholders in Norway.
Precaution for Responsible Innovation: New Options to Move Forward
Hybrid Format: Online & Brussels
On May 11, the RECIPES project has held its dissemination conference “Precaution for Responsible Innovation: New Options to Move Forward”.
The pollinator crisis and the role of entomologists: editorial
Pollinator decline, and more broadly insect decline, has become a pressing societal challenge. Jeroen P. van der Sluijs, from the RECIPES Consortium, together with Stéphane Foucart and Jérôme Casas just published the editorial in the Insect Science journal: Halting the pollinator crisis requires entomologists to step up and assume their societal responsibilities.
Insect decline, an emerging global environmental risk
Over the past decades, evidence has mounted that the Earth’s entomofauna is in an ongoing state of collapse. Globally, insects make up three quarters of animal and plant species. But these little things that run the world seem to have been widely overlooked in science, nature conservation and environmental policy-making and law-making.
Pollinator conservation requires a stronger and broader application of the precautionary principle
Pollinator decline, and more broadly global insect decline, is increasingly recognised as an emerging global environmental risk urgently requiring an internationally coordinated and integrated policy response.
The Blaise case: The precautionary principle and its role in judicial review
The approval renewal of glyphosate as an active substance for pesticides in the EU has also kept the Court of Justice occupied.
The article “Case C-616/17 Blaise and Others: The precautionary principle and its role in judicial review – Glyphosate and the regulatory framework for pesticides” was published on the Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law by Sabrina Röttger-Wirtz, Assistant professor of EU law at Maastricht University.
Society for Risk Analysis Annual Meeting 2021 Roundtable
Online
On December 8, 2021, the Society for Risk Analysis hosted the online Roundtable “Reconciling Science, Innovation and Precaution through the Engagement of Stakeholders” at their Annual Meeting “Risk Science and the Policy Interface”.
Online conference on precaution and innovation in Germany and beyond
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Online
On the 18 and 19 November 2021, the German non-governmental organization NABU organized the online conference “Vorsorge und Innovation - Fit for Future?”.
The Blaise case: The precautionary principle and its role in judicial review
The approval renewal of glyphosate as an active substance for pesticides in the EU has also kept the Court of Justice occupied.