Integration of pollinator stewardship across policy areas that affect pollinators is indispensable to achieving the EU’s binding targets for restoring pollinator diversity and reversing pollinator decline. Key policy areas that require pollinator stewardship include: agriculture, environment, chemicals, research and innovation, trade, finance, planning, legislation and education. Implementing the EU’s binding targets for pollinator restoration calls for an approach that tackles all pressures and drivers simultaneously across many sectors of human activities. Currently, numerous incoherent and sometimes conflicting policies affecting pollinators hinder or counteract pollinator restoration.
Towards Pollinator Stewardship in All Policies: Policy Incoherence in the EU Is a Major Barrier to Pollinator Restoration
Year: 2026
