Vaccine maker declares ‘climate change’ public health crisis

Pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca last month declared “climate change” to be a public health crisis, sparking concerns that the pharma industry may play a role in climate mandates.

AstraZeneca CEO Pascal Soriot made the remarks in London’s Guildhall building during London Climate Action Week, an elite conference attended by King Charles III. Soriot suggested that the “climate crisis,” which he claimed “cost us 7 million to 9 million lives every year,” is even more dire than COVID-19, which he said claimed seven million lives.

“It’s affecting us all through respiratory diseases, cancers, health conditions, infectious diseases. . . . This crisis is actually a health crisis,” said Soriot.

Despite increased warnings of a climate apocolypse, data show that global climate-related deaths are at historic lows.

The pharma boss was knighted by King Charles last year for AstraZeneca’s role in COVID-19, despite facing several legal challenges by families who lost loved ones to the company’s COVID-19 vaccine.

Soriot’s remarks came two months after drugmaker Sanofi’s Executive Vice President of Vaccines Thomas Triomphe penned an article titled “Vaccine innovation is a critical response to the climate crisis”.

“[W]e believe that vaccination and vaccine innovation can play a key role in addressing complex health care challenges induced by the climate crisis, especially through the prevention and control of climate-sensitive infectious diseases,” wrote Triomphe.

He went on to list the different ways vaccines can be used to “fight climate change," including to “help improve people’s general health resilience against climate hazards”.

Pharma industry chatter about the “climate crisis” being a public health emergency comes as the World Health Organization (WHO), which has warned of an impending climate pandemic, is developing global vaccine passports.

In May, the WHO launched a partnership with the Rockefeller Foundation to discover pandemics caused by “climate change”. Rockefeller’s $5 million investment in the World Health Organization (WHO) Hub for Pandemic and Epidemic Intelligence will “cultivate global networks” to detect pathogens and diseases “worsened by rising temperatures and extreme weather.”

But the globalist organization suggested that it will not only look for climate-induced pandemics, it will declare any new pandemic as having been caused by “climate change”.

“Climate change is increasing both the risk of another global pandemic and the need to collaborate and share data,” said Rockefeller Foundation President Dr. Rajiv Shah in a statement. “Fortunately, the WHO Pandemic Hub is already making us smarter and safer by helping track threats, find solutions, and connect countries and continents. We’re proud to partner with the Hub to expand its focus on preventing pandemics fueled by climate change.”

Weeks after the statement, the WHO announced the launch of its “digital health partnership” with the European Commission that will involve development of global vaccine passports among other “digital products to deliver better health for all.”

According to the WHO, the passport system will allow “global mobility” and protect people not only from “future health threats” but those that are “on-going”.

“In June 2023, WHO will take up the European Union (EU) system of digital COVID-19 certification to establish a global system that will help facilitate global mobility and protect citizens across the world from on-going and future health threats, including pandemics,” announced the WHO in a statement.

The globalist organization clarified that this will likely include a global vaccine passport, much like many western countries used during the COVID-19 pandemic:

This partnership will work to technically develop the WHO system with a staged approach to cover additional use cases, which may include, for example, the digitisation of the International Certificate of Vaccination or Prophylaxis. Expanding such digital solutions will be essential to deliver better health for citizens across the globe.

As a “first step”, the WHO and European Commission will “ensure that the current EU digital certificates continue to function effectively.”