Health should be understood as a global public good, which must be regulated with transparent principles and shared rules. This is the reasoning that Prime Minister Mario Draghi addressed during the extraordinary G7 called on the responses to the pandemic crisis and strategies for recovery. In his speech, the Prime Minister recalled the need to pay attention to climate change and biodiversity, the protection of which is essential to prevent future pandemics.
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Italy has expressed great support for the ACT-Accelerator and is working on a new economic contribution to the Act-Accelarator (mechanism within the United Nations for accelerating the vaccination campaign).
As the G20 Presidency, Italy is also evaluating the proposal put forward Wednesday by UN Secretary General Guterres to establish a “G20 Emergency Task Force” aimed at developing a global vaccination plan.
Health will be at the center of Italy’s international commitment, as demonstrated by the upcoming Global Health Summit in Rome: a decisive moment for the definition of a common global strategy against the pandemic. What has been done so far by all countries, i.e. mitigating the immediate consequences of the social crisis with expansionary policies, must be integrated with an effective vaccination campaign – necessary to stabilize the health trend and avoid further mutations of the virus.
For Italy, equal, universal and mass access to vaccines is a non-negotiable imperative: health is a global common good, a guiding principle also for the agenda of the Italian G20 Presidency. As never before, exercising leadership means being in solidarity.
Then there is the chapter of recovery, on which, the reasoning of the Italian government focuses on transforming the crisis into an opportunity: it means concentrating efforts on a reconstruction that, on a global level, is capable of taking care of the planet and intervening where the fault of inequality is more pronounced. Finally, attention to the challenge of climate change is a fixed point to which it is necessary to respond decisively. In this regard, COP 26 on climate change – which Italy is organizing in partnership with the United Kingdom – and COP 15 (on biodiversity) will be crucial events to test the common response capacity.
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