[GWSG] New PHD report: coverage by Carbon Brief, PhysOrg, The Guardian, VOX, and EAT-Lancet

[Tilley, Al]

1. The Planetary Health Diet was announced in a summary report in 2019. A second report has just appeared. Three takeaways: “A ‘plant-rich’ diet has the best health and climate outcomes. Transforming food systems could ‘substantially reduce’ the associated emissions. Social justice should be a ‘central goal’ in transforming global food systems.” The diet would require that global fruit, vegetable, and nut production be increased by 2/3. It would allow a 1/3 reduction in meat production. One effect would be to save 15 million lives a year now lost to poor dietary choices. Another would be to make it more possible to heal the breaches of five of the nine planetary boundaries. We could support the diet by shifting agricultural subsidies to healthy foods. This brief summary of highlights addresses benefits in land use and social justice, among other matters. Thanks to Brian Paradise for this link.  https://www.carbonbrief.org/eat-lancet-report-three-key-takeaways-on-climate-and-diet-change/?utm_source=cbnewsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=2025-10-03&utm_campaign=Daily+Briefing+Badenoch+backlash+Planetary+health+diet+Germany+s+bid+for+fusion
If you are not already following the Carbon Brief’s daily reports, they are much worth signing up for. In fact, I consider them the best current general source of climate knowledge.
2. PhysOrg adds information from the 2025 EAT-Lancet report. “Our food choices could push the planet beyond a tipping point.”   https://phys.org/news/2025-10-recipe-million-deaths-year-climate.html
3. The new report makes no major changes in the diet as recommended in the original report. (Peanuts are included among the nuts; you get two eggs a week instead of the puzzling 1.5.) The Guardian provides a good overview of the diet and the changes recommended by global region. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/02/planetary-health-diet-could-save-40000-deaths-a-day-landmark-report-finds?utm_source=cbnewsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=2025-10-03&utm_campaign=Daily+Briefing+Badenoch+backlash+Planetary+health+diet+Germany+s+bid+for+fusion
4. Vox covers well the specifics of the diet, the hopes for its implementation, and the resistance it has and is receiving. https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/463643/eat-lancet-plant-based-diet-climate-week?view_token=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJpZCI6ImI3MHF4ZmFtVW4iLCJwIjoiL2Z1dHVyZS1wZXJmZWN0LzQ2MzY0My9lYXQtbGFuY2V0LXBsYW50LWJhc2VkLWRpZXQtY2xpbWF0ZS13ZWVrIiwiZXhwIjoxNzYwODAyNzExLCJpYXQiOjE3NTk1OTMxMTF9.h2vQex8f_out502snaNF5dMWm_7YsQ8o9911LH5PIi8&utm_medium=gift-link

5. Finally, the EAT-Lancet Commission itself supplies this presentation of statements by significant figures behind the diet, notably Swedish climate scientist Johan Rockstrom, lead developer of the planetary boundaries approach, and Harvard nutrition professor Walter Willett. https://eatforum.org/update/eat-lancet-commission-warns-food-systems-breach-planetary-limits/

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