TWN Info Service on Biodiversity and Traditional Knowledge (May24/07)
11 May 2024
Third World Network

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

Action on agroecology and pesticides delivers across multiple UN policy frameworks

Synergies between commitments on agriculture, pesticides, and food systems across key UN policy frameworks on biodiversity, climate change and chemicals mean that action under the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) can deliver efficient action under all. This is the key message of a new briefing paper from Pesticide Action Network UK, Leveraging NBSAPS Beyond The CBD: How action on agroecology and pesticides delivers across multiple UN policy frameworks.

Parties to the CBD have an opportunity at the upcoming SBSTTA-26 and SBI-4 meetings to ensure action and targets incorporated in National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans (NBSAPS) to reflect the Kunming Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (KMGBF) also reflect and contribute to targets under the UNFCCC and its Paris Agreement and the Global Framework on Chemicals (GFC).

For example, policies and plans to implement the phase out of Highly Hazardous Pesticides (HHPs) in line with GFC Target A7 will deliver major pesticide risk reductions mandated by KMGBF Target 7. Similarly, mainstreaming agroecology in line with GFC Target D5 will contribute to agriculture reforms mandated by KMGBF Target 10, while enabling KMGBF and GFC pesticides reforms.

The briefing paper therefore concludes that integrating the adoption of agroecology at scale and the phase out of HHPs into NBSAPs are arguably the most efficient means of delivering on key agriculture and food systems commitments across the KMGBF, the Paris Agreement, and the GFC.

The briefing paper is available here: https://www.pan-uk.org/site/wp-content/uploads/Leveraging-NBSAPS-beyond-the-CBD.pdf

With best wishes,
Third World Network