According to Nicolas Hulot, the objectives of the Grenelle de l'Environnement have not been achieved.

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  • In 2007, the Grenelle de l'Environnement set the course for halving the use of pesticides in ten years.

  • The Nicolas Hulot Foundation is worried this Tuesday about an opposite trend: it would have increased by 25% between 2009 and 2017.

  • This development has indeed been observed by the Ministry of Agriculture itself from a unit of measurement taking into account the toxicity of the products, and not their weight alone.

"Fake news", "canard" ... Published Tuesday morning, the latest report from the Nicolas Hulot Foundation has suffered a fire of criticism on Twitter.

In question, one of the findings of the report, the use of pesticides increased sharply in France between 2009 and 2017. Even though the Grenelle de l'Environnement in 2007 had set a target of halving their use in ten years.

“We have set ourselves a goal of reducing the use of pesticides by 50%, we have increased by 25%!

», Nicolas Hulot stressed this Tuesday at the microphone of BFMTV and RMC.

In front of him, the journalist Jean-Jacques Bourdin assures, conversely, that "over a period 2009-2019, the decrease in the use of pesticides is 36%".

Who is telling the truth?

FAKE OFF

Between 2009 and 2019, the quantity of active substances sold decreased significantly, according to data published by the Ministry of Agriculture in February 2021. Excluding organic farming, and taking into account provisional data for the year 2019, the evolution is indeed -36.4%, which corresponds to a decrease of more than 20,000 tonnes in ten years.

Except that a ton of pesticides does not necessarily have the same effectiveness depending on the different types of product.

As part of the Ecophyto plan, implemented within the framework of the Grenelle de l'Environnement, a measurement unit has been developed "with all the stakeholders": the Nodu (number of unit doses).

According to the Ministry of Agriculture, this unit of measurement makes it possible in particular to "take into account the concentrations to which the products are applied" and therefore "to correct the relative importance of the substances in relation to each other".

According to this indicator, the use of pesticides has indeed increased by 25% between 2009 and 2017, as reported in a government note from January 2020. These are the data that the Nicolas Hulot Foundation took into account in its report.

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