'Vicious cycle': Pesticides worsening climate and nature crisis, report warns

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New report from PAN UK and The Pesticide Collaboration argues reduction in the use of fossil fuel based pesticides is essential to meeting climate targets

The UK's net zero target can not be achieved without transforming agriculture to enable a major reduction in pesticide use, a new report has today warned. Pesticide charity PAN UK and the Pesticide...

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