Resources for the Global Action Plan
Below is a non-exhaustive indicative list of tools and resources related to biodiversity and health interlinkages, which can support the implementation of the Global Action Plan on biodiversity and health. It is worth noting that some of these resources can be relevant for more than one of the categories under which they are placed.
Governance and policy
- Accelerating Sustainable Ocean Policy: The Dynamics of Multiple Stakeholder Priorities and Actions for Oceans and Human Health
- Advancing Integrated Governance for Health Through National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans
- CBD Guidance on Integrating Biodiversity Considerations into One Health Approaches
- CFS Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security
- Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific - International Institute for Sustainable Development Operationalizing the Environment-Health Nexus in Asia and the Pacific
- IPBES Global Assessment Report on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services
- IPBES Methodological Assessment Regarding the Diverse Conceptualization of Multiple Values of Nature and its Benefits, Including Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functions and Services
- IUCN Global Standard for Nature-based Solutions
- Mainstreaming Biodiversity and Nature's Contributions to People in Europe and Central Asia: Insights from IPBES to inform the CBD Post-2020 Agenda
- PAHO Agenda for the Americas on Health, Environment, and Climate Change 2021–2030
- PAHO The Essential Environmental Public Health Functions. A framework to Implement the Agenda for the Americas on Health, Environment, and Climate Change 2021-2030
- PAHO The Sustainable Health Agenda for the Americas 2018-2030
- Securing Biodiversity, Securing our Future: A National Mission on Biodiversity and Human Well-being for India
- UNEP-WCMC Building a Multidimensional Biodiversity Index: a Scorecard for Biodiversity Health
- UNDP Planetary Pressures-adjusted Human Development Index
- WHO Health Impact Assessment Tools and Methods
- WHO Supporting the Routine Use of Evidence During the Policy-making Process: a WHO Checklist
- WHO Regional Office for Europe The Integration of Health into Environmental Assessments: with a Special Focus on Strategic Environmental Assessments
- WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific Multisectoral Collaboration at the Human-Animal-Environmental Interface
- WHO Report of the Director General: Health, Environment and Climate Change: Human Health and Biodiversity
- WHO-IUCN Report Designing Nature-based Solutions for Human Health
- Quadripartite for One Health’s Joint Plan of Action (2022‒2026): Working Together for the Health of Humans, Animals, Plants and the Environment
- Quadripartite The Guide to Implementing the One Health Joint Plan of Action at National Level
- Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy Environmental Performance Index (EPI)
Equity and environmental justice
- Asia Pacific Network of Environment Defenders – Environmental Human Rights Defenders Toolkit
- CBD Gender Action Plan
- CBD Guidelines Akwé: Kon Voluntary Guidelines for the Conduct of Cultural, Environmental and Social Impact Assessments
- CBD-UNEP Best Practices in Gender and Biodiversity: Pathways for Multiple Benefits
- CFS Voluntary Guidelines on Gender Equality and Women’s and Girls Empowerment in the Context of Food Security and Nutrition
- Children and Nature Network Advancing Equity in Children’s Connections to Nature Equity in Children’s Connections to Nature
- CBD Training Manual on the Incorporation of Traditional Knowledge into the Description and Identification of Ecologically or Biologically Significant Areas
- IPEN Women, Chemicals and the SDGs
- United Nations Environmental Management Group Guidance on Integrating Human Rights in National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plans
- UN OHCHR Report of the Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and the Environment Human Rights Depend on a Healthy Biosphere
- UN Women 2022 Evaluation Handbook: How to Manage Gender-Responsive Evaluation
Indigenous peoples and local communities
- Indigenous Communities and the Mental Health Impacts of Land Dispossession Related to Industrial Resource Development: A Systematic Review
- Indigenous Determinants of Planetary Health
- Indigenous Natural and First Law in Planetary Health
- UNPFII Improving the Health and Wellness of Indigenous Peoples Globally: Operationalization of the Indigenous determinants of health
- UNPFII Indigenous Determinants of Health in the 2030 Agenda
Children, adolescents and youth
- Children and Nature Network Global Lessons on Greening School Grounds & Outdoor Learning
- Global Youth Biodiversity Network
- UNEP-UNESCO Youth Xchange Biodiversity and Lifestyles Guidebook
- UNICEF Children’s Climate Risk Index
- UNICEF Shaping Urbanization for Children
- Youth Ocean Action Toolkit
Healthcare, health systems and public health
- A Scoping Review of Interventions for the Treatment of Eco-Anxiety
- Biodiversity and Human Health: A Scoping Review and Examples of Underrepresented Linkages
- Children & Nature Network Benefits of Nature-Based Interventions for Children Encountering Adverse Childhood Experiences
- Children & Nature Network Nature as a Pathway for Healing from Adverse Childhood Experiences
- Children & Nature Network Nature’s Role in Promoting Resilience, Recovery and Regulation: an online Annotated Bibliography of recent academic literature
- Defining and Conceptualising the Commercial Determinants of Health
- Health Care Without Harm Green Guide for Health Care
- Health in Harmony Radical Listening
- IUCN Framework for Assessing Environmental and Social Impact of Disasters
- Nature Rx: Nature Prescribing in General Practice
- PAHO 2017 Smart Hospitals Toolkit
- Park Rx
- Pathways Linking Biodiversity to Human Health: A Conceptual Framework
- Safeguarding Human Health in the Anthropocene Epoch: Report of The Rockefeller Foundation–Lancet Commission on Planetary Health
- The Past, Present, and Future of Nature and Place-Based Interventions for Human Health
- Towards Key Principles for the Design and Implementation of Nature Prescription Programs
- UNDP-Health Care Without Harm Sustainable Procurement Index for Health
- WHO Children’s Environmental Health Units
- WHO Compendium of WHO and Other UN Guidance on Health and Environment - 2022 Update
- WHO Geneva Charter for Well-being
- WHO Global Strategy on Health, Environment, and Climate Change
- WHO Global Report on Traditional and Complementary Medicine
- WHO Health Promotion Glossary of Terms 2021
- WHO Introduction and Methods: Assessing the Environmental Burden of Disease at National and Local Levels
- WHO Pediatric Environmental Health History
- WHO Regional Office for Africa Ending Disease in Africa: Trends in communicable and noncommunicable disease burden and control in Africa
- WHO Regional Office for Africa Environmental Determinants of Health in Africa
- WHO Regional Office for Europe Nature, Biodiversity and Health: an Overview of Connections
- WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific Environmental Health in Selected Asian Countries
- WHO Traditional Medicine Strategy 2014-2023
Pathogens
- EcoHealth Alliance – Spillover Toolkit
- EcoHealth Alliance Country Assessment for the Environment Sector in Health: A Tool to Support Strengthening of National Environmental Capacity and the Operationalization of One Health
- IPBES Workshop Report on Biodiversity and Pandemics
- IUCN Healthy People and Wildlife through Nature Protection: Guidelines for Prevention, Detection, Response and Recovery from Disease Risks in and around Protected and Conserved Areas
- IUCN Situation Analysis on the Roles and Risks of Wildlife in the Emergence of Human Infectious Diseases
- IUCN Species Survival Commission Conservation Planning Specialist Group DRA On-line training course
- IUCN Species Survival Commission Guidelines on Human-Wildlife Conflict and Coexistence 1st Edition
- IUCN Species Survival Commission Wildlife Disease Risk Analysis (DRA) Guidelines and Associated DRA Manual
- Nature for Health (N4H)
- Quadripartite Strategic Framework for Collaboration on Antimicrobial Resistance
- UNEP Bracing for Superbugs: Strengthening Environmental Action in the One Health Response to Antimicrobial Resistance
- UNEP Preventing the Next Pandemic - Zoonotic Diseases and How to Break the Chain of Transmission
- WOAH Wildlife Health Framework
- WHO Ending the Neglect to Attain the Sustainable Development Goals: A Road Map for Neglected Tropical Diseases 2021–2030
- WHO Global Action Plan on Antimicrobial Resistance
- WHO Regional Office for Africa Ending Disease in Africa: Control, Elimination, and Eradication Efforts for Neglected Tropical Diseases
- WHO-CBD Biodiversity and Infectious Diseases: Questions and Answers
Ecosystems
- Improving Human Well-being Outcomes in Marine Protected Areas Through Futures Thinking
- IPBES Thematic Assessment Report on Invasive Alien Species and Their Control
- IUCN Case Study & Fact sheet - Interconnections Between Human and Ecosystem Health
- IUCN European Redlist of Medicinal Plants
- IUFRO Forests and Trees for Human Health: Pathways, Impacts, Challenges, and Response Options
- FAO Wildcheck – Assessing the Risks and Opportunities of Trade in Wild Plant Ingredients
- The Role of Protected Areas in Supporting Human Health: a Call to Broaden the Assessment of Conservation Outcomes
- U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Integrating Public and Ecosystem Health Systems to Foster Resilience
Pollution
- BRS Interlinkages Between the Chemicals and Waste Multilateral Environmental Agreements and Biodiversity: Key Insights
- Center for International Environmental Law Plastics and Health: the Hidden Costs of a Plastic Planet
- FAO/WHO International Code of Conduct on Pesticide Management
- Mindaroo-Monaco Commission on Plastics and Human Health
- Minimata Convention Mercury and Biodiversity: Opportunities for Generating Co-benefits Through Coherent Implementation of the Minamata Convention on Mercury and the Kunming-Montréal Global Biodiversity Framework
- Natural Resources Defense Council 9 Ways to Avoid Hormone-Disrupting Chemicals
- OECD Pharmaceutical Residues in Freshwater
- The Lancet Commission on Pollution and Health
- The Lancet Planetary Health Pollution and Health: A Progress Update
- UNEP Assessment Report on Issues of Concern: Environmentally Persistent Pharmaceutical Pollutants
- UNEP Global Framework on Chemicals
- WHO Chemicals Roadmap Workbook
- WHO Global Assessment on the State of Science of Endocrine Disruptors 2012
- WHO Human Biomonitoring Educational Course
- WHO Public Health Impacts of Chemicals: Knowns and Unknowns
- WHO Region for Europe Environmental Noise Guidelines for the European Region
- World Wildlife Fund A UK Guide to Avoiding Hormone Disruptors
Climate change
- CBD Technical Series No. 93: Voluntary guidelines for the design and effective implementation of ecosystem-based approaches to climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction and supplementary information
- CBD Technical Series 85: Synthesis Report on Experiences with Ecosystem-Based Approaches to Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction
- CBD Technical Series 86: Managing Ecosystems in the Context of Climate Change Mitigation: A Review of Current Knowledge and Recommendations to Support Ecosystem-based Mitigation Actions that Look Beyond Terrestrial Forests
- Center for International Environmental Law - Integrating Human Rights in Nationally Determined Contributions: A Toolkit for Practitioners
- IPCC Sixth Assessment Report Chapter 7: Health, Wellbeing and the Changing Structure of Communities
- IPCC Special Report on Climate Change, Desertification, Land Degradation, Sustainable Land Management, Food Security, and Greenhouse Gas Fluxes in Terrestrial Ecosystems
- UNFCCC Warsaw Mechanism on Non-Economic Loss and Damage – online guide
- WHO Global Climate Change and Child Health: Training for Health Care Providers, 3rd Edition
- WHO Health and Climate Change Country Profiles
- WHO Review of IPCC Evidence 2022: Climate Change, Health, and Well-being
- WHO Policy Brief Climate Change, Health, Intergenerational Equity
- WHO Policy Brief: Loss and Damage
- WHO Policy Brief Short Lived Climate Pollutants
- WMO 2023 State of Climate Health Services
Food
- CBD Decision 14/7 (Annex) Voluntary Guidance for a Sustainable Wild Meat Sector
- CBD Technical Series No. 60 Livelihood Alternatives for the Unsustainable Use of Bushmeat
- CFS Agroecological and Other Innovative Approaches for Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems that Enhance Food Security and Nutrition
- CFS Data Collection and Analysis Tools for Food Security and Nutrition: Towards Enhancing Effective, Inclusive, Evidence-Informed, Decision Making
- CFS Sustainable Fisheries an Aquaculture for Food Security and Nutrition Policy Recommendations
- CFS Sustainable Forestry for Food Security and Nutrition
- CFS Voluntary Guidelines on Food Systems and Nutrition
- CFS Water for Food Security and Nutrition Policy Recommendations
- FAO Biodiversity and Nutrition: a Common Path
- FAO Blue Transformation - Roadmap 2022–2030: A Vision for FAO’s Work on Aquatic Food Systems
- FAO Food Systems Dashboard
- FAO Forests for Human Health and Well-being
- FAO Framework for Action on Biodiversity for Food and Agriculture
- FAO Guidelines for Action on Food Loss and Waste Reduction in the Near East and North Africa
- FAO Living in and Among the Forests of Central Africa
- FAO State of the World’s Biodiversity for Food and Agriculture
- FAO The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture 2022
- FAO Voluntary Code of Conduct for Food Loss and Waste Reduction
- FAO Voluntary Guidelines for Sustainable Soil Management
- FAO Wild Edible Fungi: A Global Overview of Their Use and Importance to People
- FAO/UN Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture Framework for Action on Biodiversity for Food and Agriculture
- FAO/WHO Framework for the Provision of Scientific Advice on Food Safety and Nutrition
- FAO/WHO Sustainable Healthy Diets: Guiding Principles
- IFAD Supporting Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture through Neglected and Underutilized Species Operational Framework
- WHO Global Strategy for Food Safety 2022-2030: Towards Stronger Food Safety Systems and Global Cooperation
- WHO Guidance on Mainstreaming Biodiversity for Nutrition and Health
- Wildmeat Toolkit
- WOAH Global Animal Welfare Strategy
Urban areas
- Blue Health Toolbox: Guidance for Urban Planners and Designers
- CBD Technical Series No. 98: Handbook on the Singapore Index on Cities’ Biodiversity
- Cities and Biodiversity Outlook: Action and Policy - A Global Assessment of the Links between Urbanization, Biodiversity, and Ecosystem Services
- CLEVER Cities Project Uses Nature-based Solutions to Address Urban Challenges and Promote Social Inclusion
- EAT Lancet Commission Brief for African Cities
- EAT Lancet Commission Brief for Cities
- Global Platform for Sustainable Cities: Urban Nature and Biodiversity for Cities
- Naturvation: Cities, Nature, Innovation, Resource for Nature-based Solutions
- UN-Habitat/WHO 2020: Integrating Health in Urban and Territorial Planning: a Sourcebook for Urban Leaders, Health and Planning Professionals
- WHO Regional Office for Europe Green and Blue Spaces and Mental Health: New Evidence and Perspectives for Action
- WHO Regional Office for Europe Promoting Environment and Health Policies at Local Level: a Policy Brief for Decision-Makers and Practitioners
Access and benefit-sharing
- Implementation of the Nagoya Protocol in the Context of Human and Animal Health, and Food Safety: Questions and Answers
Biosafety of biotechnology
- CBD Biosafety Technical Series 05: Training Manual on the Detection and Identification of Living Modified Organisms in the Context of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety
- CBD Guidance on Risk Assessment of Living Modified Organisms
- OECD Safety Assessment of Transgenic Organisms in the Environment, Volume 10: OECD Consensus Document on Environmental Considerations for the Release of Transgenic Plant
- WHO Laboratory Biosafety Manual, 4th Edition
Business, finance, economics and development
- Ensuring a Post-COVID Economic Agenda Tackles Global Biodiversity Loss
- FAO Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships to Finance and Improve Food Security and Nutrition in the Framework of the 2030 Agenda
- Global Reporting Initiative, GRI: 101 Biodiversity 2024
- IUCN One Health Principles for Sustainable Tourism in Protected and Conserved Areas
- Nature United Valuing Coastal Guardian Watchmen Programs: A Business Case
- OECD Identifying and Assessing Subsidies and other Incentives Harmful to Biodiversity: A Comparative Review of Existing National-level Assessments and Insights for Good Practice
- OECD Biodiversity-related Official Development Assistance 2016: Mainstreaming in the Energy and Mining, Infrastructure, Manufacturing and Processing, and Health Sectors
- PwC How Health Organizations Can Integrate ESG Priorities
- TEEB - The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity Synthesis Report: Mainstreaming the Economics of Nature a Synthesis of the Approach, Conclusions, and Recommendations
- UK Treasury The Economics of Biodiversity: The Dasgupta Review
- UNDP Biofin Initiative
- UNEP Accountability for Nature: Comparison of Nature-Related Assessment and Disclosure Frameworks and Standards
- UNEP Sustainable Procurement Implementation Guidelines
- UNEP The Use of Natural Resources in the Economy: A Global Manual on Economy Wide Material Flow Accounting
- World Economic Forum Global Risks Report 2024
- OECD Biodiversity and the Economic Response to COVID-19
- World Economic Forum - Investing in Health Equity: Why Strong ESG Strategies Help Build a Healthier, More Inclusive World
Education, communication, and engagement of people
- CABI One Health Advancing One Health: Updated Core Competencies
- Communicating Ocean and Human Health Connections: An Agenda for Research and Practice
- Children and Nature Network Early Childhood Nature Connections Toolkit
- IUCN Home to Us All: How Connecting With Nature Helps Us Care for Ourselves and the Earth
- Planetary Health Alliance Planetary Health Education Framework
- Planetary Health Report Card 2023
- UNOHCHR Special Rapporteur on the Right of Everyone to the Enjoyment of the Highest Attainable Standard of Physical and Mental Health Report on a Human Rights-based Approach to Health Workforce Education
- WHO Effective Risk Communication for Environment and Health
- WHO-CBD Connecting Global Priorities: Biodiversity and Human Health, a State of Knowledge Review
- One Planet Network Biodiversity Communication Toolkit