Health, environment and climate change: human health and biodiversity: report by the Director-General

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The Executive Board, in its consideration of health, environment and climate change at its 142nd session, adopted decision EB142(5) in which it requested the Director-General to prepare a report on actions taken on the interlinkages between human health and biodiversity for consideration by the Seventy-first World Health Assembly, bearing in mind the state of knowledge review on biodiversity and human health by WHO and the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity, in order to prepare WHO’s contribution to the Convention’s fourteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties due to be held in November 2018. 

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Biodiversity and Human Health - Factsheet

Publication: Connecting Global Priorities - Biodiversity and Human Health