calling on governments to take steps to stop future pandemics.These are: rising demand for animal protein, extraction of natural resources and urbanization, intensive and unsustainable farming, exploitation of wildlife, increased travel and transportation, food supply changes and climate change, it said.
How environmental destruction influences the emergence of pandemics “The science is clear that if we keep exploiting wildlife and destroying our ecosystems, then we can expect to see a steady stream of these diseases jumping from animals to humans in the years ahead,” said UNEP Executive Director Inger Andersen.“Pandemics are devastating to our lives and our economies, and as we have seen over the past months, it is the poorest and the.