Outcomes

The Assembly proposed 32 actions addressing agriculture, land use and pesticides. These include reducing the use and toxicity of pesticides, protecting and restoring pollinator habitats, and supporting farmers in moving towards more pollinator-friendly agriculture.

Assembly members also identified key conditions that need to underpin the actions, calling for stronger monitoring and enforcement of existing environmental policies, increased funding for conservation actions, and education and communication initiatives that encourage cultural change.

Beyond the policy focus on pollinators, the Assembly also reflected on the role of young people in biodiversity governance, given the particular stake that youth have in long-term environmental action. To strengthen their voice in decision making, young Assembly members called for the creation of a Permanent Young Citizens Assembly on Biodiversity and produced several indications on how such a process should look like.

Read the Main Report with citizens' recommendations. These recommendations are underpinned by a set of justifications. These explain the reasoning that brought participants to develop specific actions and should be read in parallel with the recommendations. Read the Accompanying Report with justifications. The documents can also be found on the Assembly's landing page on the Citizen's Engagement Platform, where soon other language versions will also be made available. 

The process

To arrive at these proposals, Assembly members spent the past 6 months understanding the decline of pollinators, exchanging views and deliberating on potential solutions. They also engaged with policymakers, experts, stakeholders and civil society representatives to better understand the ecological, political and socio-economic context of pollinator protection.

The Assembly process also included innovative elements. For instance, Task Forces on communication, monitoring, artistic expression and follow-up involved Assembly members on a voluntary basis in managing different aspects of the process, handing over more agency to the participants themselves.

A report with the full description of the process is already available online. More information about the Assembly can be found on the Assembly's landing page on the Citizen's Engagement Platform. 

Next steps

The results of the Assembly are already being presented and discussed at EU events and beyond. On 23 April, at the 9th EU Biodiversity Platform meeting, a key EU level biodiversity governance network, three alumni spoke about the Assembly process, their experiences, and introduced the recommendations to the audience of Commission staff, EU countries representatives, civil society members and researchers, inviting those present to collaborate. On 24 April, during the kick-off for the European Youth Week 2026, nine Assembly members discussed with Commission representatives from DG ENV, DG AGRI and DG SANTE, as well as Vice-President of the European Parliament Martin Hojsík, key recommendations of their respective portfolios. Assembly alumni also participated in this year's Youth Policy Dialogue of Jessika Roswall, Commissioner for Environment, Water Resilience and a Competitive Circular Economy, which took place during the EU Green Week 2026, and in the 3rd International Forum for Action on Sustainable Beekeeping and Pollination, organised by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

The debate space of Citizens' Engagement Platform will remain open for contributions for several more months. This includes both the possibility of adding new contributions as well as commenting Assembly recommendations. This strategy is included to support the work of Assembly alumni, who continue working to increase the impact of the Assembly, also at the national and local levels. The Platform can thus become a space for giving visibility and following the work being done on specific recommendations. At CC-DEMOS, we're looking at more permanent and structured ways of supporting the work of the alumni, and will be posting about this over the coming months. 

Evaluation

Recognising the Assembly nature as a pilot project, an extensive evaluation was implemented. It was based on the evaluation framework developed by CC-DEMOS and included several complementary strands: external evaluation, participant evaluation and observer evaluation - with additional insights provided by the Assembly Advisory Committee. Within the next months we're looking into publishing the reports and developing a higher-level synthesis that will provide a broader overview of the evaluation work done and its results. We'll be informing on all these steps through this blog and on the page dedicated to Assembly evaluation.  

While the process evaluation is concluding, impact monitoring is only just beginning. The recent publication of our Impacts Report provides a framework for looking at the broader range of impacts - beyond strict focus on policy. In this sense, working with the alumni of the Assembly will be a crucial task.