Accelerating the transition from HHPs to biopesticides and agroecological alternatives

2 May 2025. Geneva. Accelerating the transition from HHPs to biopesticides and agroecological alternatives.

This side event to the COPs of the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm (BRS) Conventions explored the impacts of Highly Hazardous Pesticides (HHPs) on environmental and public health and pathways to advancing biopesticide initiatives and agroecology-based solutions. 

It discussed the benefits, adoption challenges, and policy options for scaling up biopesticides and implementing agroecological approaches with a focus on chlorpyrifos.

• Ludovic Bernaudat (Head Knowledge and Risk Unit, Chemicals and Health Branch, UNEP)
• Shweta Dabholkar (Project and Policy Officer, Center for Pesticide Suicide Prevention)
• Tadesse Amer (Co-Coordinator, Pesticide Action Network International)
• Souleymane Yougbare (Technical Director, National Council of Organic Agriculture in Burkina Faso)
• Jayakody Arachchige Sumith (Pesticide Registrar, Ministry of Agriculture, Sri Lanka) 
• Addisu Tibebu (Head Environmental Compliance and Enforcement Desk, Environnement Protection Authority Ethiopia and National Focal Point to Stockholm Convention) 
• Christine Fuell (Executive Secretary ad interim of the Rotterdam Convention – FAO) 

Related:

3 December 2021. Registration of biopesticides: challenges and opportunities.