Pesticide Action Network International

20/07/2026

Pesticides play a major role in contaminating our current and future lives and livelihoods. Hazardous pesticides together with all hazardous chemicals contribute to pollution, biodiversity loss, and climate change, while threatening human health, human rights, and environmental justice.

The UN Global Framework on Chemicals - For a Planet Free of Harm from Chemicals and Waste (GFC) seeks to protect both the planet and human health, advocating for strong governance mechanisms and promoting international standards. It addresses chemicals and waste throughout their life cycle. While it has its shortcomings – e.g. it is not legally binding - the GFC represents a critical opportunity for the world to work together and address the toxic chemicals and waste crisis. GFC can stipulate better chemical policies and advocates for health, biodiversity, climate action, gender equality, and sustainable development. In this a multi-stakeholder multi-sectorial framework, civil society is a key player.

As part of the GFC Outreach Group, Pesticide Action Network International (PAN), WECF International, IPEN: for a toxics-free future, HealthCareWithoutHarm, and the International Trade Union Confederation developed a Common Statement, confirming that people have the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment, including a safe and healthy working environment and aiming at encouraging organizations around the world to get active and join as co-signatories.

It is a way for organizations to say: we support the GFC and we want to see it implemented.

It only takes two minutes to send this powerful message.

👉 Read the Common Statement and background:
https://lnkd.in/eW-jMs8s

👉 Endorse on behalf of your organization:
https://lnkd.in/dD6WkbcA

06/07/2026

🌎 The 64th Sessions of the Subsidiary Bodies (SB64) in Bonn took place as climate disasters, biodiversity loss, land degradation, food insecurity, and rural poverty were worsening across the world. Many hoped these meetings would lead to real progress on agriculture, food security, adaptation, just transition, and climate finance.

From 8 to 18 June 2026 at the World Conference Center in Bonn, Germany, SB64 brought together 9,206 participants, including 4,198 party delegates and 2,960 observers. This year, the Subsidiary Bodies quickly agreed on their agendas and began real negotiations on the first day. But the early progress faded, and after two weeks of tense talks, there were few concrete results as diplomats reached a stalemate.

Negotiators acknowledged that food systems are becoming more important in climate action and moved discussions under the Sharm el-Sheikh Joint Work on Agriculture and Food Security (SJWA) toward implementation. Still, the results did not address the root causes of the climate crisis or meet the urgent needs of frontline communities.

➡️ Read the joint analysis by PAN Asia Pacific - PANAP and PAN International on here: https://pan-international.org/agroecology-is-a-climate-solution-pans-advocacy-towards-food-systems-transformation/

23/06/2026

🌎 Around the world, children are growing up in an environment increasingly shaped by pesticides. Since 1990, global pesticide use has more than doubled, making these chemicals pervasive in our soils, water, food systems, and communities.

Today, UNICEF releases its new report, 'Underestimated and Overlooked: The Silent Impact of Pesticides on Children', exposing a crisis that remains largely invisible despite its far-reaching consequences. The report highlights the profound impact of pesticide exposure on children's health, development, and rights, and calls attention to the urgent need for action.

⚠️“Underestimated” reflects the scale of a problem that has remained largely hidden from public view. “Overlooked” points to the long-standing failure to recognise and address children’s unique biological and behavioural vulnerabilities to pesticide exposure.

This neglect is particularly evident in agriculture, where children face some of the highest risks. Agriculture accounts for 61% of all child labour globally, and millions of children are exposed to Highly Hazardous Pesticides (HHPs), often while carrying out tasks that are prohibited for minors. Beyond child labour, an estimated 490 million children and adolescents may be exposed to agricultural pesticides simply because they live near areas where these chemicals are used.

🌿The Pesticide Action Network is honoured to have contributed to this important publication and to help bring greater visibility to this critical global issue.

Children’s health and wellbeing mustn't continue to be underestimated or overlooked. PAN International calls on governments and the international community to take decisive action by phasing out and scaling up sustainable alternatives such as . Together, we can advance healthy, just, ecologically vibrant, and climate-resilient food systems that protect both people and the planet.

📖 Read the report: https://ceh.unicef.org/spotlight-risk/pesticides

Underestimated and overlooked, pesticides silently impact children’s health and development.

11/06/2026

🌍 We made it to Bonn!

🌱With negotiators, indigenous peoples, civil society, climate experts and advocates gathering in the city for the annual climate talks at , PAN is present to contribute to conversations about agriculture and food systems.

We will be highlighting the incredible work of our members on agroecology as a climate solution and advocating for action to ensure climate action, adaptation, biodiversity protection and food security. We are therefore pleased to share PAN International’s policy recommendations for this year's 64th sessions of the UNFCCC subsidiary bodies negotiations.

📄 Read the policy recommendations here: https://pan-international.org/agroecology-is-a-climate-solution/

🎯This is a critical moment for food and agroecology advocacy at the mid-year climate negotiations. The climate crisis is too urgent, and there is too much momentum for further delays.

11/06/2026

🌍With negotiators, indigenous peoples, civil society, climate experts and advocates gathering in the city for the annual climate talks at , we are pleased to share this factsheet developed by PAN Asia Pacific (PANAP), which explores the implications of carbon farming approaches for food systems and agriculture in Asia.

📄You can download this factsheet here: tinyurl.com/yemckrcp

The urgency of addressing the climate crisis is unquestionably the main justification for the global push for technological fixes to reduce the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and to explore carbon sinks to serve as permanent storage for these gases that cause global warming.

Soil has the highest long-term capacity to store carbon dioxide and approaches under the banner of carbon farming are proposed to enhance the natural capacity of soil to absorb and store carbon.

As carbon farming projects are taking off in Asia largely due to demand for high-quality and long-term carbon removal credits in voluntary carbon markets, civil society and grassroots movements need to raise critical awareness on these projects and their impacts on farmers, agriculture and food systems. Carbon farming after all directly involves agricultural soil as carbon storage and projects require the use of farm residues, involve changes in farm practices and depend on participation of farmers.

What is carbon farming? This factsheet explores carbon farming approaches in agriculture and their implications on food systems and agriculture in Asia.

This factsheet is available to download here: tinyurl.com/yemckrcp



UN Environment Programme in Asia Pacific
UN Climate Change

17/12/2025

02/12/2025

📦 This morning, civil society groups from around the world gathered to denounce the European Union’s toxic double standards - Returning in front of the European Commission in Brussels, 75 symbolic boxes of pesticide active substances currently banned for use in the EU, yet massively exported abroad.

🌍 From Brazil to India, Indonesia to South Africa, citizens sent a clear message: toxic exports must stop!!

👉 See for more information in the press release: https://www.pan-europe.info/press-releases/2025/12/%E2%80%9Creturn-sender%E2%80%9D-citizens-deliver-banned-eu-pesticides-back-brussels