NGOs and the European organic movement are calling for the development of a new indicator to measure progress towards the EU’s goal of reducing pesticide use by 50% by 2030.
The organisations behind the European Citizens’ Initiative ‘Save Bees and Farmers’, which, in 2019, called for an 80% reduction in chemical pesticides (see EUROPE B12803A7), stressed, on 9 June, that the harmonised risk indicator HRI-1, adopted in 2019 by the Member States, “undermines the ambition and...