What is PAN?
Pesticide Action Network (PAN) is a network of over 600 participating nongovernmental organizations, institutions and individuals in over 90 countries working to replace the use of hazardous pesticides with ecologically sound and socially just alternatives.
PAN was founded in 1982 and has five independent, collaborating Regional Centers that implement its projects and campaigns.
Press Releases
Parties to the Stockholm Convention agree to phase out the Highly Toxic Pesticide Chlorpyrifos
May 2025
On Friday, the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the Stockholm Convention adopted the decision to list chlorpyrifos in Annex A of the Convention with time-limited specific exemptions, thereby agreeing to the global elimination of uses of this highly hazardous pesticide.
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