Norad's video: Dr Tedros A Ghebreyesus WHO - The Norad Conference 2021

COVID-19: A defining moment for global solidarity. Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director General, WHO, gives a keynote speech on COVID-19 and global health at the 2021 Norad Conference. Covid-19 and vaccine development, equitable distribution and roll-out of vaccines have put both Norwegian and global solidarity and inter dependency to a test, and have also opened up new questions regarding how best to support and fund global public goods, such as research, and development, production and distribution of new vaccines. New important platforms for international collaboration between countries as well as between private and public actors have been established, such as CEPI, COVAX and ACT-A. At the Norad Conference 2021, we ask: Are we heading towards a future with more cooperation or more ‘going solo’? How can we achieve the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030, and are we really on the right track? Will this be the decade of joint solutions to global challenges, or are there more likely to be growing tensions and more nationalism? For more information about – and presentations from – the conference, go to norad.no: https://www.norad.no/en/front/about-norad/news/2021/the-norad-conference-2021/