Pathways to a healthy net-zero future: report of the Lancet Pathfinder Commission

Sarah Whitmee¹, Rosemary Green², Kristine Belesova³, Syreen Hassan², Soledad Cuevas², Peninah Murage², Roberto Picetti², Romain Clercq-Roques², Kris Murray⁴, Jane Falconer⁵, Blanca Anton², Tamzin Reynolds², Hugh Sharma Waddington⁶, Robert C Hughes², Joseph Spadaro⁷, Aimée Aguilar Jaber⁸, Yamina Saheb⁹, Diarmid Campbell-Lendrum¹⁰, Maria Cortés-Puch¹¹, Kristie Ebi¹², Rachel Huxley¹³, Mariana Mazzucato¹⁴, Tolu Oni¹⁵, Nicole de Paula¹⁶, Gong Peng¹⁷, Aromar Revi¹⁸, Johan Rockström¹⁹, Leena Srivastava²⁰, Lorraine Whitmarsh²¹, Robert Zougmoré²², Joy Phumaphi²³, Helen Clark²⁴, Andy Haines²

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¹ Centre on Climate Change and Planetary Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK. Electronic address: sarah.whitmee@lshtm.ac.uk.
² Centre on Climate Change and Planetary Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
³ Department of Primary Care and Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK.
⁴ MRC Unit The Gambia at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Banjul, The Gambia.
⁵ Library, Archive & Open Research Services, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
⁶ Environmental Health Group, Department of Disease Control, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK; London International Development Centre, London, UK.
⁷ Spadaro Environmental Research Consultants (SERC), Philadelphia, PA, USA.
⁸ Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Paris, France.
⁹ Sciences Po, Paris, France.
¹⁰ Climate Change and Health Programme, WHO, Geneva, Switzerland.
¹¹ Sustainable Development Solutions Network, New York, NY, USA.
¹² Center for Health and the Global Environment, Hans Rosling Center, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
¹³ C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group, New York, NY, USA.
¹⁴ Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose, University College London, London, UK.
¹⁵ Global Diet and Activity Research Group, MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, UK.
¹⁶ Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, Italy; Women Leaders for Planetary Health, Berlin, Germany.
¹⁷ University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China.
¹⁸ Indian Institute for Human Settlements Tharangavana, Bengaluru, India.
¹⁹ Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Potsdam, Germany.
²⁰ Ashoka Centre for a People-centric Energy Transition, New Delhi, India.
²¹ Department of Psychology, University of Bath, Bath, UK.
²² AICCRA, International Crops Research for the Semi-Arid Tropics, Bamako, Mali.
²³ African Leaders Malaria Alliance (ALMA), Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
²⁴ Helen Clark Foundation, Auckland, New Zealand.

PMID: 37995741
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(23)02466-2

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Pathways to a healthy net-zero future: report of the Lancet Pathfinder Commission

Sarah Whitmee et al. Lancet. 2024.

. 2024 Jan 6;403(10421):67-110.

doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(23)02466-2. Epub 2023 Nov 20.

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Affiliations

¹ Centre on Climate Change and Planetary Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK. Electronic address: sarah.whitmee@lshtm.ac.uk.
² Centre on Climate Change and Planetary Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
³ Department of Primary Care and Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK.
⁴ MRC Unit The Gambia at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Banjul, The Gambia.
⁵ Library, Archive & Open Research Services, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
⁶ Environmental Health Group, Department of Disease Control, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK; London International Development Centre, London, UK.
⁷ Spadaro Environmental Research Consultants (SERC), Philadelphia, PA, USA.
⁸ Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Paris, France.
⁹ Sciences Po, Paris, France.
¹⁰ Climate Change and Health Programme, WHO, Geneva, Switzerland.
¹¹ Sustainable Development Solutions Network, New York, NY, USA.
¹² Center for Health and the Global Environment, Hans Rosling Center, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
¹³ C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group, New York, NY, USA.
¹⁴ Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose, University College London, London, UK.
¹⁵ Global Diet and Activity Research Group, MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, UK.
¹⁶ Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, Italy; Women Leaders for Planetary Health, Berlin, Germany.
¹⁷ University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China.
¹⁸ Indian Institute for Human Settlements Tharangavana, Bengaluru, India.
¹⁹ Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Potsdam, Germany.
²⁰ Ashoka Centre for a People-centric Energy Transition, New Delhi, India.
²¹ Department of Psychology, University of Bath, Bath, UK.
²² AICCRA, International Crops Research for the Semi-Arid Tropics, Bamako, Mali.
²³ African Leaders Malaria Alliance (ALMA), Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
²⁴ Helen Clark Foundation, Auckland, New Zealand.

PMID: 37995741
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(23)02466-2

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Conflict of interest statement

Declaration of interests KB, SH, SC, PM, RP, RC-R, KM, JF, TR, HSW, and YS report support from the Wellcome Trust and the Oak Foundation for the Pathfinder Initiative. KB also reports support from the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Centre on Non-communicable Diseases and Environmental Change (NIHR203247). RH reports a move of institution to the Wellcome Trust; however, their contribution to the Commission report was completed during their time at C40. SW, RG, and BA report support from the Wellcome Trust and the Oak Foundation for the Pathfinder Initiative and receiving other grants or contracts from the UK Energy Research Centre. RCH reports receiving support from the Wellcome Trust and the Oak Foundation for the Pathfinder Initiative and other grants or contracts from Fondation Botnar and Bernard van Leer Foundation; and reports receiving payment for consulting work from The Clean Air Fund and The Children's Investment Fund Foundation and payment as support for travel from Capita.org. AH reports support from the Wellcome Trust and the Oak Foundation for the Pathfinder Initiative; grants or contracts from the Wellcome Trust for other projects (Sustainable Healthy Food Systems and Complex Urban Systems for Sustainability and Health); payment from Cambridge University Press for the coauthored book Planetary Health; other financial or non-financial interests with the Wellcome Trust (Senior Advisor on Climate Change and Health); support for attending meetings and travel from WHO and Human Frontiers Science Program; and leadership or a fiduciary role in other board, society, committee, or advocacy groups (paid or unpaid) for the Cool Roofs trial steering committee, Burkina Faso/University of Heidelberg, the NIHR Clean-Air (Africa) Global Health Research Unit, the Collaboration for the Establishment of an African Population Cohort Consortium, the InterAcademy Partnership, Climate Change and Health working group, and the Academy of Medical Sciences/Royal Society working group on A healthy future—tackling climate change mitigation and human health together. All other authors declare no competing interests.

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