Rotterdam Convention | Pesticides and environmental incidents

Incidents involving pesticide use with negative repercussions on human health and the environment regularly occur. While poisoning incidents involving humans are more frequently reported, data related to environmental incidents are comparatively scarce. This report provides a brief overview of the situation and it highlights, based on wide-ranging examples, some of the main challenges related to the detection, monitoring, and reporting of environmental incidents and the determination of their causes. 

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