{"id":5458,"date":"2023-07-05T07:11:28","date_gmt":"2023-07-05T05:11:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/?p=5458"},"modified":"2023-07-05T07:11:28","modified_gmt":"2023-07-05T05:11:28","slug":"greenhouse-gas-emissions-from-pesticides-are-being-overlooked-activists-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/2023\/07\/05\/greenhouse-gas-emissions-from-pesticides-are-being-overlooked-activists-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Pesticide greenhouse gas emissions are being overlooked, activists say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>The use of pesticides \u2013 which include insecticides, herbicides and fungicides \u2013 increased by 16.7 % worldwide between 2005 and 2020, according to Pesticide Action Network UK (PAN UK). <\/span><span>The group released a report pointing to a &quot;vicious cycle&quot; between pesticide use and climate change, with each causing more of the other. <\/span><span>About 99% of all synthetic chemicals, including pesticides, come from fossil fuels, with several oil companies such as Exxon, Shell and Chevron involved in their production. <\/span><span>The production, packaging, transportation and application of chemicals produce greenhouse gas emissions and exacerbate climate change, as well as the environmental degradation they cause, PAN UK said. (<em>Danny Halpin<\/em> ).<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The use of pesticides \u2013 which include insecticides, herbicides and fungicides \u2013 increased by 16.7 % worldwide between 2005 and 2020, according to Pesticide Action Network UK (PAN UK). The group published a report highlighting a \u201evicious cycle\u201c between pesticide use and climate change, with each causing more of the other. About 99 [\u2026]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-klimaticka-zmena"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}