User Needs For Pollinator-Facing Tools

- Many businesses and financial institutions do not currently recognise the importance of pollinators and pollination services for their operations. - Organisations that acknowledge this connection are often uncertain about how to assess or quantify the links between their activities and pollinators. - Of the three primary user groups involved in this research (agrifood businesses, financial institutions and other businesses), agrifood businesses showed the most interest in pollinator conservation and reported the greatest use of pollinator-related tools. This may be because they expect high impacts on their organisations from the decline of pollinators. - Opportunities for new or revised pollinator-related tools include tools that better engage financial institutions and businesses by illustrating high-level economic links to pollinators. - Across all stakeholder groups, there is a need for tools that help users quantify their pollinator-related dependencies, impacts, risks and opportunities in financial terms. - Agrifood businesses seek site-level tools that assess pollinator-related impacts and dependencies, link guidance with practical implementation and/or provide land management options and associated costs. - Multiple users were identified from different stakeholder groups who would like future pollinator tools to support learning about pollinators, including their importance and mitigation options to address their decline. This indicates that there is an unmet need for tools that can support organisations to better understand their connections to pollinators.