Global dialogue on responding to the COVID-19 pandemic and economic crisis - summary for policymaking

The COVID-19 crisis provides an early glimpse of how the climate and biodiversity crises will afect the world.

Building an inclusive, green and resilient recovery is now an urgent and shared global challenge. We must build back in a way that addresses the very signifcant near-term challenges of unemployment, food insecurity and jump-starting the economy, while tackling the underlying drivers of climate change and biodiversity loss. Because stimulus packages are emerging at lightning speed and the power of incumbency and inertia is strong, we need to quickly build public and political support for change

The path ahead

As countries move down the difcult road of recovery from the COVID crisis, participants in the Global Dialogue highlighted fve key priorities:

1. People must be at the heart of a green and resilient recovery. 

2. Most countries and institutions have yet to invest adequately in a green and resilient recovery. 

3. The recovery must place resilience at its center. 

4. Global crises are often interlinked. 

5. International cooperation and solidarity must step up in times of crisis.