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The One Health approach has moved from the margins of global health into the mainstream as climate change reshapes the conditions in which people, animals, and ecosystems coexist.
Rising temperatures, environmental degradation, and accelerating urbanization are no longer distant risks but active forces shaping public health outcomes today.
In 2024, global temperatures exceeded 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre industrial levels across a full calendar year, marking a historic climate threshold. This warming is not abstract. It is driving heat stress, water insecurity, air pollution, and ecological disruption that increasingly converge in the places where people live and work.
One Health helps explain why these pressures cannot be addressed in isolation highlighting the interconnectedness and interdependence of animal health, environment health and human health: extreme heat affects food systems and labour productivity; water scarcity alters sanitation and disease exposure; ecosystem degradation weakens natural regulation of pathogens, while biodiversity loss destabilizes the balance between humans, animals, and the environment.
