The health–environment nexus: global negotiations at a crossroads

Abstract

In the 50 years of work to advance sustainability policy since the 1972 UN Conference on the Human Environment and the establishment of the UN Environment Programme, the relationships between humans and the planet's ecosystems, and between health and the environment, have largely remained at the periphery of global health discourse.1 Governance architectures for global health and global environmental policy are generally siloed, but the challenges these domains tackle are increasingly intertwined and require cross-sector collaboration.