CRW2022_06 Emerging Contaminants: Informing Scotland’s strategic monitoring and policy approaches on substances of increasing concern

CREW code: CRW2022_06

Theme: Water Quality & Health 

Type of project: Capacity Building

Project status: In procurement, see specification

Application deadline: Closed

Overview: A strategic and holistic capacity building approach is needed to identify, assess, and mitigate risks from substances of increasing concern to Scotland’s waters. This approach will inform best practice responses that can be executed by relevant partners. This is a high priority area within the Scottish Government policy agenda due to its widespread, interconnected, and unknown impacts with potential for significant synergistic and far-reaching systemic risks to human health and ecosystems, which may be exacerbated by climate change drivers.

Aim: The project aim is to inform, prioritise, and coordinate actionable monitoring and policy-based approaches to identify, assess, and mitigate risks from substances of increasing concern to Scotland’s water environment.

Key questions:

1. What are the key substances or groups of substances of increasing concern in Scotland’s waters?
2. What are the risks of these substances to Scotland’s water environment including human health?

Full specification

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