After extending the negotiations into a series of last-minute 24-hour sessions in April 2025, a draft was \u2018greenlined\u2019 with many countries suggesting that they had gone as far as they could via negotiation, and it was now time to bring it to vote.<\/p>\n
Yet, it would be churlish not to understand that the Pandemic Agreement consolidates \u2018pandemic prevention, preparedness, and response\u2019 as a definitive \u2018space\u2019 of global political action, for the purpose of which numerous new institutions and funding streams have already been created.<\/strong>\u00a0Its potential passage into international law is unusual in global health and represents only the second time such a global health covenant has been created (the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control being the first), with the potential to mobilize substantial resources and policies.<\/p>\n Consequently, if the draft Pandemic Agreement is adopted at the 78th\u00a0WHA and subsequently ratified by the required 60 countries, the key to its potency will be how various legal obligations, governance processes, financial instruments, and \u2018partner\u2019 commitments are defined and implemented into policy via the Conference of Parties (COP). In many ways, the drafters of the Agreement merely \u2018kicked the can down the road\u2019 regarding the most difficult and contentious disagreements in hopes that future consensus will be found during the COP.<\/p>\n Here, comparisons and contrasts between the Climate COP and Pandemic COP could help to glean some useful insights on how the politics of the Pandemic Agreement might play out.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Both have become industries with significant levels of vested governmental and corporate interest,\u00a0both use fear to motivate political and fiscal action,<\/strong>\u00a0and both rely heavily on the natural proclivities of the media to propagate fear and justify states of exception as dominating narratives.<\/p>\n https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/medical\/pandemic-agreement-surveillance-one-health-new-industry-government-grift<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" After three years of negotiation, the delegates of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Body (INB) agreed on the text of the Pandemic Agreement, which now goes for vote at the 78th World Health Assembly (WHA) at the end of May 2025. After … Continue reading