COP27 Health Pavilion “One Health, Ocean and the Climate Change”

When:16 November 2022, 11.30-12.45 Egypt time

Where: Hybrid | Livestream 

Co-Organizer(s): One Ocean Hub, University of Strathclyde (UK); Nelson Mandela University, South Africa; University of Cape Town, South Africa; University of Ghana, Ghana; INSERM, France; CNRS, France; University of Plymouth, UK; Mercator Ocean International; Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations; United Nations Environment Programme.

What: The roundtable is aimed to introduce the interlinkages between One Health, the ocean, and climate change and explore the environmental law and policy dimensions of One Health and the link to the SDGs. Examples such as the development of a One Health AMR (antimicrobial resistance) Legal Assessment Tool to be developed by FAO, OIE and WHO or a One Health project funded by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs (One Health in practice in Southeast Asia : Zoonoses and socio-environmental changes: OneHealthSEA 2021 - 2022), which includes the development of a training part for students and civil servants in an environmental law perspective or a session on One Health and the ocean during the Science Summit UNGA77 (resp. C. Lajaunie), will illustrate some transformative governance process and changes.

The mental health impacts of changes to oceans and fish populations will also be raised by speakers with lived experience from the Land Body Ecologies network. Further, the roundtable will explore the research coming from the One Ocean Hub which can contribute to the discussion regarding ocean biodiversity and biodiscovery and impacts of marine plastic pollution for health and climate change. It will include screening of a short film on marine biodiscovery produced and narrated by Professor Rosemary Dorrington (Rhodes University, South Africa) and Jazz Conway (University of Plymouth, UK).