{"id":4821,"date":"2022-08-31T13:19:32","date_gmt":"2022-08-31T05:19:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/panap.net\/?p=4821"},"modified":"2022-08-31T13:19:32","modified_gmt":"2022-08-31T05:19:32","slug":"eliminate-highly-hazardous-pesticides-in-agriculture-by-2030-panap","status":"publish","type":"panap_updates","link":"https:\/\/panap.net\/beta\/updates\/eliminate-highly-hazardous-pesticides-in-agriculture-by-2030-panap\/","title":{"rendered":"Eliminate Highly Hazardous Pesticides in agriculture by 2030 \u2013 PANAP"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pesticide Action Network Asia Pacific (PANAP) joined PAN International and other CSOs in calling for the elimination of Highly Hazardous Pesticides (HHPs) in agriculture by 2030, among other targets, at the Fourth meeting of the intersessional process considering the Strategic Approach and Sound Management of Chemicals and Waste beyond 2020 or SAICM IP4<\/a> being held in Bucharest from August 29 to September 2.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile we are negotiating text here at IP4 during this week, we should remember that we are doing this for the planet and future generations.\u00a0 A major problem recognised by SAICM are Highly Hazardous Pesticides (HHPs). There are an estimated 385 million unintended pesticide poisonings every year, an unknown number of long-term effects and over 150,000 pesticide-related suicides.\u00a0 For every one of these numbers there is a farmer, worker, woman, a family, a child suffering the debilitating impacts.\u00a0 Pesticides also contribute significantly to all the current global crises – climate disaster, biodiversity loss, chemical pollution \u2013 that are threatening the survival of the planet as we know it,\u201d said Sarojeni Rengam, PANAP executive director, in a statement read on behalf of PAN International.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

PAN cited a new scientific study published in the Journal Environmental Science and Technology, which concludes that \u201cpesticides wipe out non-target insects that are fundamental to all ecosystems, and therefore, to the provision of clean air, water and food.\u201d<\/p>\n

PAN is pushing for a \u201cstrong, ambitious framework\u201d that would ensure a toxic-free future and the right to a clean and healthy environment as declared by the UN General Assembly, a framework that it hopes to be adopted by the upcoming fifth session of the International Conference on Chemicals Management (ICCM5).<\/p>\n

\u201cTo ensure a robust and inclusive global process for solutions along the whole lifecycle of chemicals and waste that make real impact, we need to act now,\u201d said Rengam.<\/p>\n

In PAN International\u2019s position paper<\/a> to the SAICM IP4 Beyond 2020 Process, the group said that existing targets are \u201cinadequate,\u201d and calls on all stakeholders to defend the following targets proposed by CSOs:<\/p>\n