The importance of getting the ethics right in a pandemic treaty

Sustainability in the pandemic accord

“…3 The pandemic accord would benefit from a definition that is more contextualised to pandemics. Thus, we have offered a more tailored definition of sustainability: ‘Ensure that emergency responses that are appealing for the immediate problem do not imperil future responses, preparation for the next pandemic, or responding with research, development and manufacturing to subsequent pandemics.’ 4 …”

“…Sustainability is already much more clearly integrated into the rest of the text than most of the delineated principles, and so its explicit inclusion would underscore all the principles’ relevance. 4 Similar integration into the main text of any other principle truly considered central to the accord’s provisions would also be appropriate.…”