“ The decision recognizes the importance of ecosystem-based approaches for the delivery of multiple benefits
to health and well-being, and invites Governments and
other relevant stakeholders to make use of the
Biodiversity inclusive One Health Guidance developed by CBD and WHO.
The State of Knowledge Review gave rise to a comprehensive decision on the interlinkages between biodiversity and health and its inclusion in the Aichi Biodiversity Targets and their follow-up
targets, taken at the Thirteenth Conference of the Parties (COP 13),
held in 2016 in Cancun, Mexico. A new comprehensive decision on biodiversity and
health was adopted at COP 14, held in 2018 in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt.
The WHA report sought guidance from Member States with a view
to preparing WHO’s contribution to the UN Convention on Biological
Diversity’s fourteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties held in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, from 17 - 29 November
2018. The WHO report on biodiversity and health by the Director-General to the
71st World Health Assembly is available here. Biodiversity and human health was discussed as a special issue at the 71st meeting of the
World Health Assembly (WHA) held from 21-26 May 2018 in Geneva.
Since the 2018 Farm Bill was passed, farmers
have been allowed to grow hemp as long as it contains 0.3 percent or less THC. ”