From concept to action: a united, holistic and One Health approach to respond to the climate change crisis

Renhe Zhang; Xu Tang; Jian Liu; Martin Visbeck; Huadong Guo; Virginia Murray; Catherine Mcgillycuddy; Bing Ke; Gretchen Kalonji; Panmao Zhai; Xiaoming Shi; Jiahai Lu; Xiaonong Zhou; Haidong Kan; Qunli Han; Qian Ye; Yong Luo; Jianmin Chen; Wenjia Cai; Huiling Ouyang; Riyanti Djalante; Alexander Baklanov; Lu Ren; Guy Brasseur; George Fu Gao; Lei Zhou

doi:10.1186/s40249-022-00941-9

From concept to action: a united, holistic and One Health approach to respond to the climate change crisis

Infect Dis Poverty. 2022 Feb 10;11(1):17. doi: 10.1186/s40249-022-00941-9.

Authors

Renhe Zhang¹, Xu Tang², Jian Liu³, Martin Visbeck⁴, Huadong Guo^{5

6}, Virginia Murray⁷, Catherine Mcgillycuddy⁷, Bing Ke⁸, Gretchen Kalonji⁹, Panmao Zhai¹⁰, Xiaoming Shi¹¹, Jiahai Lu¹², Xiaonong Zhou¹³, Haidong Kan², Qunli Han¹⁴, Qian Ye¹⁵, Yong Luo¹⁶, Jianmin Chen², Wenjia Cai¹⁶, Huiling Ouyang², Riyanti Djalante¹⁷, Alexander Baklanov¹⁸, Lu Ren¹⁸, Guy Brasseur¹⁹, George Fu Gao²⁰, Lei Zhou²⁰

Affiliations

¹ Integrated Research on Disaster Risk International Centre of Excellence on Risk Interconnectivity and Governance on Weather/Climate Extremes Impact and Public Health & Institute of Atmospheric Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200438, China. rhzhang@fudan.edu.cn.
² Integrated Research on Disaster Risk International Centre of Excellence on Risk Interconnectivity and Governance on Weather/Climate Extremes Impact and Public Health & Institute of Atmospheric Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200438, China.
³ Science Division, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), United Nations Avenue, Gigiri, PO Box 30552, Nairobi, 00100, Kenya.
⁴ GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel and Kiel University, Kiel, Germany.
⁵ Key Laboratory of Digital Earth Science, Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
⁶ University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
⁷ UK Health Security Agency, London, SE1 8UG, UK.
⁸ The Administrative Center for China's Agenda 21, Ministry of Science and Technology of China, Beijing, 100038, China.
⁹ Institute for Disaster Management and Reconstruction, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610207, China.
¹⁰ State Key Laboratory of Severe Weather, Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, Beijing, 100081, China.
¹¹ China CDC Key Laboratory of Environment and Population Health, National Institute of Environmental Health, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, 100021, China.
¹² One Health Center of Excellence for Research and Training, School of Public Health, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China.
¹³ National Institute of Parasitic Diseases, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (Chinese Center for Tropical Diseases Research), Shanghai, China.
¹⁴ Integrated Research On Disaster Risk-IPO, Beijing, China.
¹⁵ State Key Lab of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, 100875, China.
¹⁶ Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Earth System Modeling, and Department of Earth System Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
¹⁷ ASEAN Secretariat Indonesia; Integrated Research on Disaster Risk (IRDR), Jakarta, Indonesia.
¹⁸ Science and Innovation Department, World Meteorological Organization (WMO), 7 bis, Avenue de la Paix, BP2300, CH-1211, Geneva 2, Switzerland.
¹⁹ Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany.
²⁰ Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China.

Abstract

It is unequivocal that human influence has warmed the planet, which is seriously affecting the planetary health including human health. Adapting climate change should not only be a slogan, but requires a united, holistic action and a paradigm shift from crisis response to an ambitious and integrated approach immediately. Recognizing the urgent needs to tackle the risk connection between climate change and One Health, the four key messages and recommendations that with the intent to guide further research and to promote international cooperation to achieve a more climate-resilient world are provided.

Keywords: Climate change; International coordination and cooperation; One Health; Risk-oriented recommendations.

Publication types

Editorial

MeSH terms

Climate Change*
Humans
International Cooperation
One Health*

Grants and funding

21230780200/Scientific and Innovative Action Plan of Shanghai