Monthly lunchtime on-line sessions with speakers and discussion on the impacts of climate change on pollutant, environment and health chemistry. Sessions are 12:30 -13:15 with talks up to 30 minutes leaving the remaining time for questions, answers and discussion. Sessions will be hosted on Zoom. Joining information will be sent with confirmation of registration.
Our next speaker is Laura Thain from the Environment Agency’s Chemicals Regulatory Development team in England with a talk about her work screening prioritised substances for the need for intervention and regulatory planning “Considering climate change in chemicals regulation".
Laura's team has updated its Chemicals Regulatory Strategy Tool (CREST) to include climate change parameters and are now reviewing the scientific literature to help consider where climate change may be relevant to substances that come through CREST e.g., to identify patterns in how certain categories of chemicals will change in usage in future and how climate change may impact their environmental fate, toxicity or whether they release greenhouse gases. They seek to gain a better understanding of where there are likely to be implications for prioritised chemicals in the environment because of climate change impacts and use this evidence-base to help inform our decisions.
Our next speaker is Laura Thain from the Environment Agency’s Chemicals Regulatory Development team in England with a talk about her work screening prioritised substances for the need for intervention and regulatory planning “Considering climate change in chemicals regulation".
Laura's team has updated its Chemicals Regulatory Strategy Tool (CREST) to include climate change parameters and are now reviewing the scientific literature to help consider where climate change may be relevant to substances that come through CREST e.g., to identify patterns in how certain categories of chemicals will change in usage in future and how climate change may impact their environmental fate, toxicity or whether they release greenhouse gases. They seek to gain a better understanding of where there are likely to be implications for prioritised chemicals in the environment because of climate change impacts and use this evidence-base to help inform our decisions.
