Parties to the Stockholm Convention agree to phase out the Highly Toxic Pesticide Chlorpyrifos

Geneva, May 2025: On Friday, the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the Stockholm Convention adopted the decision to list chlorpyrifos in Annex A of the Convention with time-limited specific exemptions, thereby agreeing to the global elimination of uses of this highly hazardous pesticide. Parties tripled the number of exemptions from the seven uses originally […]