As countries gathered at the United Nations’ biodiversity conference, or COP15, to agree on the post-2020 global biodiversity framework, policymakers, scientists, and rights advocates reaffirmed nature’s vital role in supporting human health and called for stronger and more integrated action to safeguard nature and overall human well-being. Biodiversity loss and climate change create immense risks for people’s health and well-being in Asia and the Pacific. Our health is threatened by extreme weather events such as drought and floods, poor air quality, unsafe food and diseases emerging and spreading because of environmental change, such as dengue fever.  The WHO estimated that almost one quarter of the global environmental burden of disease…