内容摘要：Stephan Fifield, deputy county council leader, added that the Conservative administration had improved the county's roads.

Stephan Fifield, deputy county council leader, added that the Conservative administration had improved the county's roads.

It still needs to be formally adopted by members when they meet for the World Health Assembly next month.US negotiators were not part of the final discussions after President Donald Trump announced his decision to withdraw from the global health agency, and the US will not be bound by the pact when it leaves in 2026.

Under the terms agreed, countries will have to ensure that pandemic-related drugs are available across the world in a future outbreak.Participating manufacturers will have to allocate 10% of their production of vaccines, therapeutics and diagnostics to the WHO. Another 10% will then be supplied at "affordable prices".Countries also approved the transfer of health technologies to poorer nations as long as it was "mutually agreed".

That should enable more local production of vaccines and medicines during a pandemic, but the clause had been extremely contentious.Developing countries are still angry at the way wealthy nations bought up and hoarded vaccines during Covid-19, while countries with large pharmaceutical industries worry mandatory transfers might undermine research and development.

At the core of the agreement is a proposed Pathogen Access and Benefit-Sharing System (PABS), allowing the faster exchange of data between pharmaceutical companies.

That should enable those firms to start working on new drugs more quickly in any future outbreak.Although the vast majority of new SUVs still burn fossil fuels, IEA officials have said that over 20% of SUVs sold in 2023 were fully electric, up from 2% in 2018.

As for hybrids that can run on both electricity and fossil fuels, a study in Europe by the International Council on Clean Transportation in 2022 found only around 30% of the total distance driven by plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (all types including SUVs) was in electric mode on average.Similar results were found in other major economies such as the US and China.

Overall, the back-gear towards SUVs, some experts say, has caused a significant setback in the decarbonisation of the transport sector."The trend toward heavier and less efficient vehicles such as SUVs (in countries where it is happening) has largely nullified the improvements in energy consumption and emissions achieved elsewhere in the world's passenger car fleet," said the IEA.