This tenth newsletter looks back at the news of the last few months related to pesticides. The consequences of these toxic products affect every country in the world, and the information in this newsletter includes Argentina, Brazil, the European Union, France, Germany, Guernsey, India, Italy, Mexico, Switzerland and the United States. We hope you find this information interesting and useful. In order to support our action and… Read More

While controversy over a possible renewal of the European approval for glyphosate rages on, European Union member states blocked the Commission’s proposal to extend glyphosate’s approval for another year, which expires on December 15, 2022, by not giving it qualified majority votes at the November 15, 2022, Appeal Committee meeting. This Appeal Committee meeting followed the SCOPAFF (Standing Committee… Read More

For its ninth newsletter, Justice Pesticides looks back at the news of the last few months related to pesticides. The consequences of these toxic products affect every country in the world, and the information in this newsletter includes Argentina, Brazil, the European Union, France, Germany, Guernsey, India, Italy, Mexico, Switzerland and the United States. We hope you… Read More

On September 26, 2022, our partner Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) published a legal opinion on the export of pesticides banned in Europe (European Union, Switzerland and United Kingdom) to Africa and Central America. The Basel Convention, which regulates international trade in hazardous waste, is insufficient to effectively protect all countries from the impacts… Read More

To open the Rachel Carson Action Month against Pesticides (September 27 to October 27, 2022) for the 60th anniversary of the publication of Rachel Carson‘s book “Silent spring”, our partner Pan Europe has published a report entitled Pesticide paradise, which traces the history of the 278 times failure of the European legislator, since the adoption… Read More

“We spray our elm trees and the following springs are silent of robin song, not because we sprayed the robins directly but because the poison traveled, step by step, through the now familiar elm-earthworm-robin cycle.” Rachel Carson On the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the publication of Rachel Carson‘s book Silent Spring, our partner… Read More