Biodiversity Policy Engagement Analysis
Biodiversity Lobbying Overview: CropLife America has taken mostly negative positions in its engagement on biodiversity related regulations.
Top-line Messaging on Biodiversity Loss: CropLife America does not appear to have taken positions on the science of biodiversity loss, the need to address biodiversity loss or the need for regulation on the issue.
Engagement with Biodiversity-Related Regulations: CropLife America has mostly engaged on policies related to pollution, with predominantly negative positions.
Since at least 2018, CropLife America has extensively engaged on neonicotinoids. CropLife America appeared not to support the draft biological evaluation for acetamiprid (a neonicotinoid pesticide) in an October 2021 comment and in a December 2023 comment. CropLife America is a signatory of a March 2023 letter to the U.S. House of Representatives and United States Senate, opposing Senate Bill S.269: Protect America's Children from Toxic Pesticides Act, which would ban neonicotinoids and paraquat and impose more stringent criteria for pesticide approval.
On its corporate website, accessed in June 2022, CropLife America appeared to support the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) by stating that it“supports a robust stakeholder process to build consensus around, and sufficient resources to implement, a better process to protect species and provide growers the tools they need”. However, CropLife America has submitted multiple comments to the Environmental Protection Agency advocating against policies related to pesticides. In a May 2023 comment, CropLife America expressed concerns over the draft biological opinion on carbaryl and methomyl (pesticides). CropLife America appeared not to support the Environmental Protection Agency's Draft Herbicide Strategy Framework, which aims to reduce the impact of conventional agricultural herbicides on federally listed endangered and threatened species, as well as their designated critical habitats, in an October 2023 comment.
Positioning on Statutory Protection of Wildlife: CropLife America appears to have limited engagement on the statutory protection of wildlife. In an August 2023 comment, CropLife America appeared to support weakening the proposed requirements to offset "incidental take" of endangered species.