CIAO DATE: 07/2013
June 2013
Danish Institute for International Studies
International environmental conventions may constitute a last resort when people and governments do not have the power to enforce existing national legislation. Unfortunately to the Nicaraguan farm workers who are still affected by earlier times’ use of the pesticide DBCP, this pesticide is not included under the Stock - holm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants. Their fate serves to remind us of the detrimental – and deathly – consequences of the inadequacy of international environmental governance.
Resource link: Pesticides and international environmental governance [PDF]