The EAT-Lancet Commission’s report provides the first ever scientific targets for healthy diets and sustainable food production based on a broad specter of the latest scientific literature. It was published in The Lancet, a world-leading scientific medical journal, and combines research on health, nutrition, agriculture, environmental sciences and political sciences, and presents the correlating result.

The results presented by the Commission have gone through a comprehensive peer-reviewing process, a process that can be lacking when institutions produce reports. Peer-reviewing involves a handful of anonymous scientists acting as reviewers who scrutinize the findings of the report. The Commission had to address the reviewers’ comments to ensure the report’s academic rigor before it became published as part of the public record and the global academic literature. The supplementary material presented in the Appendix of the Commission’s report contains additional results, data and a more detailed description of the methodology used. This can be downloaded from The Lancet‘s website along with the full publication.

The Commission’s report lays the groundwork for flexible practices by proposing clear scientific targets within the safe operating space for healthy diets and sustainable food systems, including the lowest and highest possible levels. Instead of presenting strict guidelines with little room for amendment, the report’s findings allow for independent decisions and local adaptation.

Finally, the Commission is also unique in embracing multiple environmental dimensions: climate, biodiversity loss, nitrogen and phosphorus loss to the environment, land system change and freshwater use. Many studies focus on a few rather than all six of these environmental limits.