A recent webinar series hosted by the project enabled the team to present its findings to date and engage in open discussions with stakeholders regarding the method, its shortcomings, and strengths. The webinars included presentations from other experts in the field, including Lauran van Oers from Leiden University, representing the EU’s SUPRIM project, and Luca Zampori of the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission. Overall, learnings from the webinars included identification of project needs:
- to develop and share the link between inventory and impact assessment with stakeholders;
- to address substance coverage (data availability challenges) on both the inventory and impact assessment sides;
- to consider uncertainties, and develop normalisation references; and,
- develop of a tiered approach to make the method applicable to existing inventory data sets.
We encourage all interested stakeholders to reach out and get involved. We will hold the next series of webinars in Fall 2020 to review advances and gather additional input from stakeholders. Please reach out Johannes Drielsma drielsma@euromines.be(link sends e-mail) (Euromines Deputy Director and ICMM ARP project Steering Committee Co-Chair) for updates, to provide input, or to get involved more directly.