Key UN Chemicals Experts Agree that Global Action is Warranted to Tackle Threats from Chlorpyrifos and Other Pesticides
October 2, 2024
Global chemicals experts from around the world gathered in Rome for the Chemical Review Committee (CRC) of the Rotterdam Convention on 16-20 September 2024, followed by the Persistent Organic Pollutants Review Committee (POPRC) of the Stockholm Convention on 23-27 September 2024. The CRC agreed that Chlorpyrifos-methyl, Paraquat and Paraquat dichloride, met the criteria to be listed under the Rotterdam Convention.
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Statement of Civil Society and Indigenous Peoples on the end of the FAO partnership with CropLife International
June 10, 2024
Eleven organizations representing civil society and Indigenous Peoples across the globe welcome the statement by the UN Food & Agriculture Organization (FAO) that it has officially ended its Letter of Intent (LoI) with pesticide industry lobby group CropLife International. We believe that this is an important victory especially for farmers, farmworkers and rural communities who suffer most from pesticide harms.
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UN Environment Assembly Calls for Action to End the Use of the World’s Most Toxic Pesticides by 2035
March, 2024
Nairobi – In a historic move for safer food and farming, the U.N. Environment Assembly (UNEA) today called for action by 2035 to eliminate the use of the world’s most toxic pesticides globally. Called highly hazardous pesticides (HHPs), these chemicals are known to cause significant environmental damage and pose serious threats to health.
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Key UN Chemicals Experts Agree that Global Action is Warranted to Tackle Threats from Chlorpyrifos Pesticides
October 13, 2023
Rome – Global experts have recommended that global action on chlorpyrifos is warranted. Global chemicals experts from around the world gathered in Rome this week where they decided that chlorpyrifos is likely, as a result of its long-range environmental transport, to lead to significant adverse human health and/or environmental effects, such that global action is warranted.
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Commitments in new chemicals framework should catalyze strong global action on pesticides
October 2, 2023
Pesticide Action Network (PAN) International welcomes significant commitments towards the phase-out of Highly Hazardous Pesticides (HHPs) in agriculture adopted by governments, the private sector, and other stakeholders at the Fifth International Conference on Chemicals Management (ICCM5), as well as the establishment of a Global Alliance on HHPs.
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Ambitious action to phase out world’s most dangerous pesticides urged
September 25, 2023
Bonn – 373 civil society and Indigenous Peoples organizations from 74 countries urged leaders at a historic global conference to act with urgency to phase out Highly Hazardous Pesticides (HHPs)[1], a particular group of pesticides that cause the most severe harm to human health and the environment and are considered too dangerous for use.
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Highly hazardous pesticides and detoxifying agriculture are make-or-break issues at critical global pollution conference – NGOs urge governments and UN agencies to act
September 20, 2023
Commitments to phase out the use of Highly Hazardous Pesticides (HHPs), ban exports of prohibited substances, and adopt non-chemical alternatives in agriculture are essential to the credibility of an historic global pollution summit, but are yet to be secured, NGOs say.
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FAO Director General urged to begin new term with action to end pesticide industry partnership, phase-out Highly Hazardous Pesticides
July 26, 2023
Today, 11 global civil society and Indigenous Peoples organizations representing small-scale farmers, agricultural workers, trade unions, and rights holders urged Mr. Qu Dongyu to begin his new term as Director General of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) on a positive note by ending a controversial partnership with the pesticide industry signed during his previous term, and taking leadership on global action to phase-out Highly Hazardous Pesticides (HHPs).
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