COVID‐Clarity demands unification of health and environmental policy.

This could then be combined with reforms to risk assessments that incorporate the valuation of spillover and loss of forest-associated health co-benefits for forest conversion agricultural proposals (IPBES, 2020). Spillover of novel pathogens from wildlife to people, such as the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic, is increasing and this trend is most strongly associated with tropical deforestation driven by agricultural expansion. COVID-Clarity demands unification of health and environmental policy. [Extracted from the article]