Chaired by Jean-François Soussana, vice-president of INRAE, the roundtable gathered Prisca Mugabe, Deputy Dean(Faculty of Agriculture, Environment and Food Systems), University of Zimbabwe, Franck Berthe, Agriculture Global Practice, the World Bank, Corinne Brunon-Meunier (Deputy Executive Director, IRD) Marisa Peyre (Epidemiologist, Deputy Head Global Health Research Unit, CIRAD), Hung Nguyen Viet (Co-Leader, Animal and Human Health Programme ILRI/CGIAR), Craig Stephen (Member of the Steering Committe at International Alliance Against Health Risks in Wildlife Trade) and Benjamin Sultan (Climatologist, Research director, IRD). Prisca Mugabe is the Research Platform-Production and Conservation in Partnership (RP-PCP) co-ordinator.

PREZODE (Preventing Zoonotic Disease Emergence) is an innovative international initiative with the ambition to understand the risks of emergence of zoonotic infectious diseases, to develop and implement innovative methods to improve prevention, early detection, and resilience in order to ensure rapid response to the risks of emerging infectious diseases of animal origin.

 The discussions raised awareness on the similarities between drivers of zoonosis emergence and drivers of climate change, the need to reduce the risks through a change in paradigm, co-development of solutions with all stakeholders, and concrete actions, such as communities’ engagement, livestock management and responses to food security. 

Governments and non-state actors came together in Egypt from 6-18 November, 2022 to tackle the challenge of climate change.