A planet-first diet can feed the world by 2050 while improving the environment, new scientific analysis finds
The report finds adopting the Planetary Health Diet could prevent 15 million premature deaths annually and cut food-related carbon emissions by over 15%, promoting health and sustainability globally.
- The 2025 EAT-Lancet Commission reported that adopting a "Planetary Health Diet" could save 15 million lives each year and significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture.
- The diet includes more fruits and vegetables while recommending limited meat and dairy consumption, and could prevent a 27% reduction in premature deaths globally.
- The commission highlighted that the wealthiest 30% of the global population are responsible for 70% of environmental pressures caused by food systems.
- Experts called for government action to promote healthy eating and reduce processed food consumption to align global food systems with sustainability goals.
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To keep the world livable, we should limit ourselves to a maximum of one meatball or steak per week. EAT-Lancet introduces a new diet that benefits both our health and the climate and biodiversity. Will you follow this advice to eat one meatball a week to keep the world livable?
The food system is responsible for 30 percent of emissions. Without transformation, the planet will warm beyond a safe limit, even if we abandon fossil fuels.
How can we reconcile health, social justice and environmental sustainability? In a report published on Friday, October 3, the NGO Eat and the reference scientific journal The Lancet reveal that a global transition from diets could save about 15 million premature lives each year and reduce the annual emissions of food-related greenhouse gases by more than half.
The second edition of the "Food Scheme for Global Health" is published this Friday, October 3. It shows that it is possible to feed 10 billion people by reducing the risk of mortality and greenhouse gas emissions.


Scientists have cracked the code for how we can become healthier, strengthen the economy and save the planet all at once. The solution is our food, according to a new giant report. “The research is very clear,” says sustainability professor Line Gordon.
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