The Cabinet Office recognised that the UK needs to further strengthen international cooperation and noted that this will be a central feature of the UK resilience strategy. The Department stated that the UK is seeking a new pandemic treaty through the WHO that would place greater obligations on countries and that it would welcome the introduction of an early international alert level, prior to the declaration of a Public Health Emergency of International Concern.20 To foster public debate on existential risks to the whole of mankind, which cannot be mitigated by nations individually but require a long-term, concerted international effort, the Cabinet Office stated that it is considering including a commentary on existential risks in the next edition of the National Risk Register. The Cabinet Office pointed to efforts to tackle climate change and to regulatory work on general- purpose artificial intelligence as examples of work being carried out internationally on specific existential risks.21