A transformative wave of Planetary Health leadership is building across the regions of East and Southeast Asia. From November 6 to 20, 2024, representatives from the Planetary Health Alliance and the Johns Hopkins Institute for Planetary Health journeyed across Japan, South Korea, Singapore, and Malaysia, uncovering an unprecedented momentum in regional engagement. From productive meetings with Japan’s Ministries of Health and Environment to a keynote address at the World Health City Forum in South Korea, from innovative urban sustainability discussions in Singapore to Malaysia’s groundbreaking National Planetary Health Action Plan, the region is showing admirable commitment to addressing Earth’s interconnected challenges.
Read a detailed report on these developments and their implications for our global movement.
The good news is that we look out across all our systems—whether it's food systems, energy systems, the built environment, circular economy, manufacturing—and we see an extraordinarily rich landscape of solutions. The answers are out there. There is an enormous amount we can do.
Sam Myers
Faculty Director of the Planetary Health Alliance, during his keynote speech at the 2nd World Health City Forum in Incheon City, Republic of Korea.
