Good morning, this is Pip. Today, we’re following negotiations for a future pandemic treaty which kicked off this week in Geneva. Also in Geneva, we’re hearing about the engineers leading the city’s industrial future. And further afield, we’re getting the latest from Cop15, which opened in Montreal yesterday with a grave warning from the UN’s environment chief that the world is “at war with nature”.

07.12.2022

On our radar

Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus urged member states to keep up momentum to negotiate a pandemic ‘treaty’. (Keystone/Martial Trezzini)

⚕️Keeping momentum on a pandemic ‘treaty’. World Health Organization (WHO) chief Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus urged the world on Monday to keep the “momentum” to negotiate a new pandemic 'treaty’ to prevent, prepare for and respond to future pandemics. He was addressing a meeting of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Body in Geneva, kicking off negotiations for a future global pandemic treaty to steer the world’s response to pandemics in the wake of Covid-19.

Health Policy Watch (EN)

Here’s what else is happening

🍃‘We are at war with nature’: UN environment chief warns of biodiversity apocalypse.
The Guardian (EN)
🗣️Colombia VP asks UN for reparations for African descendants.
La Prensa Latina (EN)
🚫‘Repeating cycle’: Protesters decry Sudan agreement.
Al Jazeera (EN)
🔍Geneva’s industrial future, led by a thousand future engineers.
Heidi.news (EN)
🛫Airlines warn of higher fares from green transition.
Reuters (EN)
❗Drought and conflict force 80,000 Somalis to shelter in Kenya’s Dadaab refugee camps.
UN News (EN)

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