Hosted by the Nobel Foundation and organised by the US National Academy of Sciences in partnership with the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and the Stockholm Resilience Centre / Beijer Institute.
It was exciting and gratifying to repeatedly hear the One Health theme of inter-connectedness and bridging silos woven into multiple conversations.
A few highlights:
- End of Day 1, Dr. Marcia McNutt, President, US National Academy of Science, mentioned One Health in summarizing the theme of the day as 'CONNECTIONS'!!!! We are all connected economically, environmentally, socially, in ‘One Health’.
- On Day 2 Ursula Von der Leyen, President of The European Commission, called for implementation of One Health, proclaiming there is only One Health, One Planet, One Humanity.
- The Dalai Lama called for us to reconnect humanity with the planet by moving to a holistic view of one-ness, one humanity, one planet, one home. See his book, ‘Our Only Home: A Climate Appeal to the World’
Disruptive (positive) change requires consistent pressure to understand and fully implement at all levels of academia, research, industry, government and policy, the [One Health] concepts discussed at this Summit. Hopefully our world leaders, philanthropic funding foundations and the public are listening.
Summit session recordings are available on the event website and on the Nobel Prize Summit YouTube channel. Find One Health postings on the #NobelPrizeSummit Twitter feed.
See the Pre-Summit White Paper
Folke, C., Polasky, S., Rockström, J. et al. Our future in the Anthropocene biosphere. Ambio 50, 834–869 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-021-01544-8
See the Summit Proceedings.
