After Attal's announcements, NGOs' discontent over the end of the French pesticide measurement indicator. “This decision clearly goes against history,” lamented Thomas Uthayakumar, director of advocacy for the Foundation for Nature and Man.
Nodu “was the only effective long-term tool allowing us to measure our progress” in terms of reducing pesticides, underlines Cédric Marteau, general director of the League for the Protection of Birds. Gabriel Attal, however, affirmed that he did not want to “give up on (the) ambition to reduce the use of pesticides by 50% by 2030”