GS3 · 15 marks · 250 words

Global Pandemic Agreement (2025) recognizes the 'One Health' approach as critical to pandemic prevention, preparedness, and response. Highlight the key features of the agreement, and elaborate on how the One Health approach can help in preventing future pandemics. What steps are needed to integrate this approach into India's environmental and health governance?

Answered by 3 toppers · CSE 2025

Environmental GovernanceBiotechnologyBiodiversity and Conservation

Syllabus: Conservation, environmental pollution and degradation, environmental impact assessment.

How toppers approached it

From all 3 answers · about 200 words · 33% drew a diagram.

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The toppers’ answers

Ujjwal PriyankAIR 10 · CSE 2025 · 151 wordsTheir whole copy

Opening

The recently concluded Global Pandemic Agreement (2025) is instrumental in building global consensus for collaborative efforts to manage epidemics in future.

Body · points

Diagram
- "One Health" approach -> 1. includes managing health of human, animal and environment -> 2. Ensuring efforts to prevent zoonotic diseases. -> 3. Building consensus on integrative approach.

Features

  1. One Health approach helps realise the importance of ecological balance while preserving human health.

  2. Health of animals must not be neglected. (Eg: Lumpy skin disease of cattle)

  3. Ensuring healthy food chain to prevent bio accumulation as well as bio magnification.

  4. Preventing and mitigating pandemics. (Eg: Covid 19 virus supposedly arose from bats)

  5. Effective preparedness and collaborative response.

Steps needed to integrate "One Health" approach

  1. "Whole of government" approach
Diagram
Human / \ /_______\ Environment Animal

→ Ministry of Health → Ministry of Fisheries, Animal husbandry & Poultry → MoEFCC

  1. Ensuring resilient health infrastructure → Primary human care → Veterniary structure to be modernised

  2. Effective collaboration of society for healthy lifestyle

Close · a way forward

Mission LiFE under Modiji vision for deliberation and responsible human life can be a way forward.

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