Leadership Dialogue 1: Reflecting on the Urgent Need for Actions to Achieve a Healthy Planet and Prosperity of All [Draft Background Paper]

Leadership Dialogue 1 - “Reflecting on the urgent need for actions to achieve a healthy planet and prosperity of all”, will consider the urgent need for actions to achieve a healthy planet and prosperity of all, where aspirations and rights can be fulfilled. It will focus on the need to live in harmony with nature for development, gender equality, intra- and inter-generational equity, and human wellbeing. This background paper for Leadership Dialogue 1, provides context to the dialogue. The background paper highlights the urgency for key actions to achieve a healthy planet for all – for health, for equity, for rights, for job opportunities, for development now and in the future, and for all life on Earth. It also offers a set of questions to explore pathways of regeneration, recovery, rebalance, renewal and reimagining – all of which will help to transform commitments to action.