The Coronavirus Pandemic: Global Challenges Requires Global Cooperation

... place since 2009. If, as many scientists and conservationists believe, climate change will make pandemics increasingly likely , international cooperation to prevent the spread of disease will become critical to future global security. In 2006, ‘preventing ... ... the incentive is there. In the last year there has been a new ‘space race’ between scientists keen to develop the first Covid-19 vaccine, with Russia even naming its vaccine after Sputnik , the first satellite, which translates as ‘fellow traveller’....