![]() They encompass illegal wildlife hunting, trade and increase in international live animal exports, unsustainable agro-food systems and the unsustainable impacts of population growth. Behavioural weaknesses are linked to unsustainable lifestyle and consumption patterns.Structural weaknesses, arising from the prevalence of an unsustainable economic paradigm include land use change, unsustainable urbanization, all types of pollution, and issues in the way the economic, financial and business sectors take into account the environment.They include a lack of political commitment, despite the available science, to address critical environmental issues such as the biodiversity and climate crises, and siloed approaches to the management of environmental and human health. Institutional weaknesses reflect weak governance and institutional capacities. ![]() A framework to address the nexus between the health of the natural world and human health within the limits of what nature can provide, in alignment with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, is imperative.Ī combination of institutional weaknesses, structural economic weaknesses and behavioural weaknesses in the way we manage our environment led to the degradation of environmental health in the region and are linked to the environmental drivers of zoonoses: It is critical to generate knowledge to bring about change that emphasizes a shift away from current development trajectories characterized by biodiversity loss and ecosystem degradation, unsustainable production and consumption patterns, pollution, and climate change. What are the concrete policy actions that can be implemented to mend the broken relationship between human societies and the environment and address, at the same time, the global biodiversity, climate and health crises?.What are the approaches that can be used to understand these interactions?.What are the environmental issues that pose threats to human health and how are environmental and human health related?.The COVID-19 pandemic is therefore a call to urgently restore and reconnect a sustainable relationship between nature and human societies. Prior to the COVID-19 outbreak, the region’s environmental health was already under enormous pressure. Zoonotic diseases are driven by many environmental factors that enhance the interface between wild animals, domestic animals and humans. Improving human health and mitigating against future health disasters requires simultaneously addressing these causative factors in an integrated fashion.Ĭoronavirus SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) is a zoonotic disease, transmitted by animals to humans. This policy brief highlights how human health is directly linked to the state of biodiversity and climate change in the Asia-Pacific region.
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