Breaking Barriers: Advancing the One Health agenda with a focus on environment

This event will bring together representatives from governments, civil society organizations, scientists and other actors from practice to push the One Health agenda at the nexus between health and biodiversity. It will provide a space to review the status of implementation, showcase experiences gained, identify guidance for next steps towards action, and shed light on important topics that seem to receive less attention. The event will emphasize economic approaches to valuing environmental assets and health, as well as economic-based drivers of challenges.

Discussions at the event will draw on insights from the Quadripartite’s One Health Joint Plan of Action and insights from the One Health High Level Expert Panel (OHHLEP). It will focus on the environmental pillar of a One Health approach and provide a space to review the status of implementation, showcase experiences gained, identify guidance for next steps towards action, and shed light on important topics that seem to receive less attention.  

Host organizations
Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection (BMUV), Quadripartite (FAO, UNEP, WHO, WOAH), Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ), and the International Alliance against Health Risks in Wildlife Trade.

⦿ Watch the webcast of the Plenary and closing sessions
⦿ Event website with outcome documents
⦿ Summary report