Not even 1% of humanity in ‘safe and just space’, where people’s rights, food needs are met within planetary boundaries: EAT

Published on : 03 Oct 2025, 12:57 pm

Currently, fewer than 1 per cent of the world’s population is in a ‘safe and just space’, where people’s rights and food needs are met within planetary boundaries. To feed 10 billion people within safe planetary boundaries by 2050, there needs to be a global shift towards “healthier” diets, according to a new report.

The EAT-Lancet Commission report released on October 3, 2025, found that a global shift towards “healthier” diets could cut non-CO2 greenhouse gas emissions, such as methane, from agriculture by 15 per cent by 2050.

The planetary boundaries framework defines nine key Earth system processes that regulate life on Earth. The world has already passed six of these nine boundaries: climate, biodiversity, land, freshwater, nitrogen and phos